Juan de Zúñiga y Requesens (died 1586) was

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, 1579–1582. He was the sixth child of Juan de Zúñiga Avellaneda y Velasco (circa 1490 – 1546), Philip II's tutor, and Estefanía de Requesens y Rois de Liori (d. 1549), and the brother of

Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga (25 August 1528 – 5 March 1576) was a Spanish general, sailor, diplomat and politician. He served as governor of the Duchy of Milan (1572–1573) and as governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1573–1576). Biography L ...

. He was involved as an ambassador to Rome, together with his eldest brother, Luis. Later, as a governor of the Duchy of Milan and of the 17 provinces of Flanders, his naval force fought back the Ottoman vanguard. He then took part in the negotiations with

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to set up the Holy League to counteract naval piracy and the Turkish invasion of Suleiman I the Magnificent, (1520–1566), which led to the

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in 1571, the successfully Spanish bombing of the remnant of the Ottoman fleet at Alger and

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, and the plundering of the costal region of

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, which result in the decisive defeat of Ottoman invasion of Western and Southern Europe. He then married the Sicilian noblewoman Giulia Barrese, thus becoming Prince of

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. Giulia Barrese was the daughter of the infamous Girolamo Barrese, marquis of

, a title first awarded by

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on 16 August 1526. While in Naples he recruited ships and people (in support of the claims of King

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whose mother had been a Portuguese princess) to attack and conquer (with the support of a part of the Portuguese nobility) the city of

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. Closely involved with King

he died in 1583, having been promoted to the Royal Council of Spain and the Spanish Council of War cabinets.

Some references

*http://www.grandesp.org.uk/historia/gzas/mirandacast.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20101012123758/http://www.apellidochacon.es/miranda.htm *http://europaromanica.proyectosbeta.com/es/glosario/detail.php?termId=2049 *Gran Enciclopedia de España. 22 vols. with 11,052 pages, . See vol 22, page 11,049 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuniga Y Requesens, Juan De 1583 deaths Viceroys of Naples Spanish princes Year of birth unknown