Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa y Dormer, 2nd Duke of Feria (1559–1607) was a Spanish peer. He was the son of

Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria (–1571) was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat, and close advisor of Philip II of Spain. Early life Probably born in Zafra, Extremadura, he was the second son of Lorenzo Suárez de Figuer ...

and

Jane Dormer Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (6 January 1538 – 13 January 1612) was an English lady-in-waiting to Mary I who, after the Queen's death, married Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria and went to live in Spain, where she wo ...

, an English

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. He succeeded his father at the age of 12. He served as Spanish ambassador in Rome (1591–1592), France (1593–1595),

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(1596–1602) and

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(1603–1607), where he strengethened the defences of the island against failed ottoman attacked, and led bombing and raiding campaigns against Alger,

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. He married twice: in 1577, to Isabel de Cárdenas, daughter of the Marquess of Elche, and in 1586, to Isabel de Mendoza, daughter of

Íñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza, 5th Duke of the Infantado Inigo is a masculine given name deriving from the Castilian rendering (Íñigo) of the medieval Basque name Eneko. Ultimately, the name means "my little (man)". While mostly seen among the Iberian diaspora, it also gained a limited popularity ...

. His second wife gave him his only surviving son and successor to the Dukedom of Feria, Gómez Suárez de Figueroa.

Life

He was born in

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, and died in

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Sources

Fundacion Medinaceli

Casa de Feria
{{DEFAULTSORT:Suarez de Figueroa, Lorenzo, 2nd Duke of Feria 1559 births 1617 deaths Dukes of Feria Margraves of Villalba Viceroys of Catalonia Viceroys of Sicily Spanish people of English descent Ambassadors of Spain to France