Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos, (2 January 1602 – 1658) was a

Grandee of Spain Grandee (; , ) is an official royal and noble ranks, aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish nobility. Holders of this dignity enjoyed similar privileges to those of the peerage of France during the , though in neither country did they ha ...

and a Knight of the

Order of the Golden Fleece The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece (, ) is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in 1430 in Brugge by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, Isabella of Portugal. T ...

. He served as

Viceroy of Valencia This is a list of viceroys of the Kingdom of Valencia from 1520 to 1707. *1520 : Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1st Count of Melito *1523 : Germaine of Foix and Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach *1526 : Germaine of Foix and Ferdinand of Aragon, Duque ...

and of

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Biography

He was the son of Luis Ponce de León y Zúñiga (1573-1605), 5th Marquis of Zahara, son of the 3rd

Duke of Arcos Duke of Arcos () is an hereditary title in the Spanish nobility, Peerage of Spain, granted by Isabella I of Castile, Isabella I in 1493 to Rodrigo Ponce de León, then 4th Count of Arcos. The dukedom is among the first 25 titles which reached th ...

and of Victoria de Álvarez de Toledo y Colonna. His younger brother was

Luis de Guzmán Ponce de Leon Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

Governor of the Duchy of Milan The governor of Milan was a political and military office of the Duchy of Milan, the title of the representatives of the foreign sovereigns who held dominion over the Milanese area, substantially from the 16th century until the Unification of It ...

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He married Ana Francisca de Aragón y Córdoba, daughter of Enrique de Aragón,

Duke of Segorbe Duke of Segorbe () is an hereditary title in the peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1469 by John II of Aragon to Enrique de Aragón, son of Infante Henry, Duke of Villena and Beatriz de Pimentel, from whom t ...

, with whom he had three sons. As Viceroy of Naples, the

suppressed a revolt by inhabitants of the city of Naples led by

Masaniello Tommaso Aniello (29 June 1620 – 16 July 1647), popularly known by the contracted name Masaniello (, ), was an Italian fisherman who became leader of the 1647 revolt against the rule of Habsburg Spain in the Kingdom of Naples. Name and place ...

but was soon faced with another revolt against Spanish rule, which resulted in the proclamation of the short-lived Neapolitan Republic. Geoffrey Parker: ''Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Castastrophe in the Seventeenth Century''. Yale University Press. 2014. . pp. 427–434

References

1602 births 1658 deaths Viceroys of Naples Viceroys of Valencia Dukes of Arcos Marquesses of Zahara Knights of the Golden Fleece

Rodrigo Rodrigo () is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian name derived from the Germanic name ''Roderick'' ( Gothic ''*Hroþareiks'', via Latinized ''Rodericus'' or ''Rudericus''), given specifically in reference to either King Roderic (d. 712), the la ...

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