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unusual facts about Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar



Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar

In 1629, Viceroy Diego Fernández de Córdoba gave up his charge and returned to Spain, where he died the following year, at Guadalcázar, aged 52.

In 1598, aged 20, he was in Central Europe as an ambassador with a mandate to travel and bring back to Spain the 13-14 year old orphaned bride Margaret of Austria (daughter of Archduke Charles II of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria), the first, and unique, wife of king Philip III of Spain, being awarded the title of marquis of Guadalcázar, in 1609.

Early in his mandate in New Spain, he sent Captain Diego Martínez de Hurdáiz to suppress an uprising of the Tehuecos, an ethnic subgroup of the Cahuitas of Sinaloa.


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