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Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade (1576–1622), better known as the Great Count of Lemos, was a Galician (Spanish) nobleman who was viceroy of Naples from 1608, and was also president of the Council of the Indies . Biography. A member of the House of Castro, he was born at Monforte de Lemos .
Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, 10th Count of Lemos. Ginés Fernando Ruiz De Castro y Portugal, 11th Count of Lemos. Rosa María Fernández De Castro, 12th Countess of Lemos. Joaquín López de Zúñiga y Castro, 13th Count of Lemos. Portrait of the 13th Count of Lemos, c. 1752, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
- 26 May 1456
- Henry IV
- Pedro Álvarez Osorio, 1st Count of Lemos
- Peerage of Spain
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He was born in Monforte de Lemos, in what is now the province of Lugo.He was the son of Francisco Fernández de Castro, 9th Count of Lemos, and Antonia Téllez-Giron y Enriquez de Ribera. He married in Madrid, on 20 July 1664 Ana Francisca de Borja, daughter of the 8th Duke of Gandia, a wealthy widow since 1663 who had been the third wife of Enrique ...
Viceroy Fernández de Castro died in Lima after a short illness on December 6, 1672, still in office. His body was buried in the Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados Church until it was demolished in 1938, after which his body was sent to hometown and his heart was sent to Saint Peter Church, where it remains today.
Gran Enciclopedia de España, (1992), 22 vols. ISBN 84-87544-01-0, 11,052 pages, vol 8, pages 3976–3977.
Pedro Fernandez de Castro was Lord (Señor) of Lemos and Sarria and served as mayordomo mayor (lord steward) of Alfonso XI of Castile, adelantado de la frontera (governor) of Andalusia, Galicia and Murcia and pertiguero mayor (a title similar to the French Vidame) of the lands of Santiago.
- c. 1290
- 1342, Algeciras
- Choir of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
- Castro
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Pedro Fernandez de Castro was Lord (Señor) of Lemos and Sarria and served as mayordomo mayor of Alfonso XI of Castile, adelantado de la frontera (governor) of Andalusia, Galicia and Murcia and pertiguero mayor of the lands of Santiago.
Mar 30, 2024 · Count of Lemos (Spanish: Conde de Lemos) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of Grandee, granted in 1456 by Henry IV to Pedro Álvarez Osorio, as a result of his marriage to Beatriz Enríquez de Castilla, a cousin of the king.
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