Don Juan Fernández Pacheco (20 December 1563 in

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– 5 May 1615 in

, Spain), 5th Duke of Escalona, 5th Marquis of Villena and 5th Count of Xiquena was a Spanish nobleman and, between 1607 and 1610, viceroy of

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Biography

He was the son of Don Francisco Pacheco, 4th Duke of Escalona (1532–1574) and Juana Alvarez de Toledo. In 1589, he was made a knight in the

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. He was Spanish ambassador in Rome between 1603 and 1606, then made

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between 1607 and 1610.

Marriage and children

He married in 1594 with Serafina de Bragança (1566-1604), daughter of John I, 6th Duke of Braganza. They had 10 children, seven of whom reached adulthood: # Diego Antonio (1594–1616), died in captivity in

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. # Felipe Juan Baltasar (1596–1633), 6th Duke of Escalona. # Diego Roque (1599–1653), 7th Duke of Escalona. # Cecilia (1603–1622) # Juan Francisco (1606–1663), Bishop of Cuenca, Bishop of Cordoba. # María, abbess.Geni
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References

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Marquesses of Villena 17th-century Spanish nobility Ambassadors of Spain to the Holy See