Juan Francisco Pacheco y Téllez-Girón, 4th Consort

Duke of Uceda Duke of Uceda ( es, Duque de Uceda) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1610 by Philip III to Cristóbal Gómez de Sandoval, who succeeded his father Francisco Gómez de Sandoval ...

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, 8 June 1649 –

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, 25 August 1718), was a Spanish noble,

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and Spanish Ambassador in

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Biography

He was the son of Alonso Melchor Téllez-Girón, from whom he inherited the title of 3rd Count of

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, and Juana de Velasco, daughter of

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. He was Captain General of Galicia (1682–1686), Spanish

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(1689–1696) (Started:1689/04/09 Ended:1696/05/21) under king

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, Ambassador at

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, under kings

and

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, member of the Spanish State Council under king

. He was also 1st Marquis of Menas Albas, Marquis of Belmonte, Chevalier of the French

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and

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. During his time as the Spanish

he experienced the

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, launched several naval attack on Alger,

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and

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, which resulted in a decreased of the number of ottomans raid onSicily During the

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he first supported Philip V of Spain, but went over to the Austrians in 1710, and lived the last years of his life in Vienna. He became there Knight of the

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, Austrian Branch, and member of the Austrian Empire State Council of

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. He married on 16 July 1677 with Isabel María de Sandoval y Girón, a

, 4th proprietary Duchess of

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, (born

, 15 August 1653 – married 16 July 1677 - +

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, 23 July 1711). Through this marriage Juan became

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, 4th Consort

On the title Duke of Uceda

Duchess Isabel María de Sandoval y Girón used for this name a practice used by women of the High Spanish Nobility and the ecclesiastic officers from such families since the middle of the 14th century, namely, that her mother was the 3rd proprietary Duchess of Uceda, a

and describing herself as Feliche de Sandoval Ursino, or Feliche de Sandoval Orsini, (Madrid,

, 3 June 1625 - married 1645 -

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, 7 October 1671) while her father was,

, and since marrying her in 1645 3rd Duke Consort of Uceda, albeit being known also as

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, (Madrid, 25 May 1625 - married 1645 - 2 June 1694). In other words, the 3rd and the 4th Ducal titles associated to the Dukedom of Uceda were held in property by two women, Feliche de Sandoval and Isabel Maria de Sandoval, while their fathers/husbands however, were respectively named "Alvarez de Toledo", (8th

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), "Pacheco Téllez-Girón", (3rd Count of

) and "Tellez-Giron y Sandoval", (5th Duke of

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). It is through this elaborate but by no means at the time uncommon, "family names engineering" that it was possible to pass on the family name "Sandoval" from

Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, 1st Duke of Lerma, 5th Marquess of Denia, 1st Count of Ampudia (1552/1553 – 17 May 1625), was a favourite of Philip III of Spain, the first of the ''validos'' ('most worthy') through whom the later H ...

, (PM of Spain under earlier king

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to their son: Manuel de Sandoval Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke of Uceda, (

11 April 1676 –

, 12 November 1732).

References

;Notes *Margarita MARTIN VELASCO
"La documentación histórica y la publicística del siglo XVIII. El IV Duque de Uceda y sy correspondencia con Félix de la Cruz Aedo"
(2005). Rev. "Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información", (2006), vol 29, Pages 141-164. *Miguel Angel OCHOA BRUN . "Embajadas reales: La presencia diplomática española en Italia durante la Guerra de Sucesión", 15 Diciembre 2002, discurso leido en su recepcion como miembro de la Academia Española de la Historia. *Gregorio DE ANDRES . "Catalogo de los manuscritos de la Biblioteca del Duque de Uceda", Rev. Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos, (1975), vol 78, pages 5–40. *K. KAMEN. "La Guerra de Sucesion en España, 1700 - 1715". Barcelona, Ed. Grijalbo, (1974). {{DEFAULTSORT:Pacheco Y Tellez-Giron, Juan Francisco 1653 births 1711 deaths Dukes of Uceda Captain Generals of Galicia Viceroys of Sicily War of the Spanish Succession