Luis Díez de Aux y Armendáriz (Quito, c. 1571 - Barcelona, 3 January 1627) was a Spanish churchman and politician.

Biography

His family was from Navarra and Aragón, but he was born in

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where his father Lope Díez Aux de Armendáriz was president of the Real Audiencia de Quito. His elder brother was

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, who would become 1st Marquess of Cadreita and

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. Luis moved to Spain and became a

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monk in the monastery of Valparaíso de Zamora. In 1613 the Duke of Lerma appointed him abbot of the monastery of Santa María de la Oliva in Navarra, thanks to his brother's services to the Crown. He was bishop of Jaca in 1618 and

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in 1622, and as such was co-prince of Andorra along with King Louis XIII of France. In 1626 he was appointed

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by King Felipe IV. He was also promoted to the Archbishopric of Tarragona but he died in January 1627 before taking possession of it.RAH, p. 412

References

External links

Real Academia de la Historia
17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain Bishops of Urgell People from Quito 1571 births 1627 deaths Viceroys of Catalonia {{Andorra-politician-stub