Francisco de Tutavilla y del Rufo, Duque de San Germán
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Francisco de Tutavilla y del Tufo, Duque de San Germán, (Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

, Italy
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, 1604 - Madrid
Madrid
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, Spain
Spain
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, 30 January 1679), a General of the Extremadura
Extremadura
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 Army fighting at the time of the Portuguese Restoration War
Portuguese Restoration War
Portuguese Restoration War was the name given by nineteenth-century 'romantic' historians to the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon . The revolution of 1640 ended the sixty-year period of dual monarchy in Portugal...

, 1657–1658, at the Sieges of Olivenza
Olivenza
Olivenza or Olivença is a town in the autonomous community of Extremadura, situated on a disputed section of the border between Portugal and Spain...

, Badajoz
Badajoz
Badajoz is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain, situated close to the Portuguese border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana, and the Madrid–Lisbon railway. The population in 2007 was 145,257....

  and Mouao, Viceroy of Navarre, (April 1664 - February 1668), Viceroy of Sardinia, (December 1668 - January 1673), Viceroy of Catalonia, (August 1673 - October 1675), Commander of Peñausende
Peñausende
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 from the Spanish Military Order of Santiago
Order of Santiago
The Order of Santiago was founded in the 12th century, and owes its name to the national patron of Galicia and Spain, Santiago , under whose banner the Christians of Galicia and Asturias began in the 9th century to combat and drive back the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula.-History:Santiago de...

, Sieur of Campana de Albalá and Saucedilla
Saucedilla
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, was an Italian - Spanish military Viceroy serving kings Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV was King of Spain between 1621 and 1665, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, and King of Portugal until 1640...

 and Charles II of Spain
Charles II of Spain
Charles II was the last Habsburg King of Spain and the ruler of large parts of Italy, the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies...

.

Biography

He was the successor at the ends of 1668 of the assassinated Viceroy of Sardinia, known as Diego de los Cobos y Luna, 2nd Duke of Sabiote, ( - Caller
Caller
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, Sardinia
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 Island, 1665 - July 1668), a Grandee of Spain, former Viceroy of Valencia, 1659–1663, 4th Marquis of Camarasa
Camarasa
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 since 1646, 2nd Count of Ricla
Ricla
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, 10th Count of Ribadavia
Ribadavia
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, 8th Count of Castrojeriz, Count of Villazopeque
Villazopeque
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 and other lesser nobility titles.

He conquered in 1674 Bellegarde
Bellegarde
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 Fort, 42° 27′ 31″ N, 2° 51′ 33″ E, French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France
France
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 and Spain
Spain
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, but it was taken back by the mercenary Troop Commander Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg
Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg
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, (Heidelberg
Heidelberg
-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...

, Germany
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, 1615 - Battle of the Boyne
Battle of the Boyne
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, near Drogheda
Drogheda
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, Ireland
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 , 1 July 1690 1690) on behalf of king Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France
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.

Francisco's father was named Ottavio while his grandfather on his mother side, Porzia, was named also Ottavio (del Tufo), being the son of Paolo del Tufo, 1st Baron of San Marzano
San Marzano di San Giuseppe
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, deceased 1566. His great grandfather on his grandfather side was Giovanni del Tufo, 1st Baron of Livello, in Basilicata
Basilicata
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, deceased 1519. The grandfather of Giovanni del Tufo was named Giacomo del Tufo, 8th Baron del Tufo.

Probably, the title of Baron of San Marzano, refers to San Marzano di San Giuseppe
San Marzano di San Giuseppe
San Marzano di San Giuseppe is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, part of the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It is one of the Arbëreshë communities in southern Italy.Economy is based on the cultivation of olive trees and vine....

, Puglia, South Italy
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, a notorious medieval Greek-Orthodox place, conquered by soldiers of the Aragonese Crown during the XIV-XV Centuries with the help of Albanese
Albanese
-People:* Anthony Albanese, Australian politician* Antonio Albanese, Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer* Diego Albanese, Argentinian rugby union player* Francesco Albanese, Italian tenor* Giacomo Albanese, Italian mathematician...

 Condottiere, Giorgio Castriota Skanderberg. King Charles I of Spain, a.k.a. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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 invested in 1530 as Barone di San Marzano the Albanese
Albanese
-People:* Anthony Albanese, Australian politician* Antonio Albanese, Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer* Diego Albanese, Argentinian rugby union player* Francesco Albanese, Italian tenor* Giacomo Albanese, Italian mathematician...

 Captain Demetrio Capuzzimuti. This Greek-Albanese culture South Italian town , at least in the past, in Puglia, should not be confounded with another San Marzano at the Piedmont region, North Italy. However, most probably too, this San Marzano di San Giuseppe
San Marzano di San Giuseppe
San Marzano di San Giuseppe is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, part of the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It is one of the Arbëreshë communities in southern Italy.Economy is based on the cultivation of olive trees and vine....

 in Puglia, has to see with the world famous San Marzano tomatoes, for the "pizza napolitana", as the story goes that the first seed of the San Marzano tomato came to Campania
Campania
Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...

 in 1770, as a gift from the Kingdom of Peru
Peru
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, then at the Crown of Spain, to the Kingdom of Naples
Kingdom of Naples
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, attached also to such Crown for several centuries by then.

Italian-Spanish Duke Francisco de Tutavilla y del Tufo (1604–1679), Viceroy and Greneral, was married to Spanish
Spanish people
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 noblewoman, mainly of Portuguese
Portuguese people
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 ancestors who was knnown at some documents as Catalina de Cárdenas Colón de Toledo y Portugal, 14ª Countess of la Puebla del Maestre, 5th Marchioness of Bacares
Bacares
-External links: - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía - Diputación Provincial de Almería...

, deceased at Madrid
Madrid
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, Spain
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, 4 January 1701, but they had not issue.
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