Juan Tomás Enríquez de Cabrera y Ponce de Leon, VII Duque de Medina de Río-Seco (Genoa

Genoa

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, Italy

Italy

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, 1646  - Estremoz, Portugal

Portugal

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, 1705), was a Spanish noble and military.

He belonged to the important Enríquez family, whose title Duque de Medina de Río-Seco was awarded by King Charles I of Spain, Emperor Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

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, in April 1538.

He was the 11th and last hereditary Admiral of Castile

Admiral of Castile

Admiral of Castile was a post with a long and important history in Spain. One famous holder was Fadrique Enríquez.Another was Admiral Don Bernardo de Sarrià, Baron of Polop and nobleman in the service of King James II of Aragon....

, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, (1678 - 1686), Viceroy of Catalonia, (1688), member of the State Council, ambassador in Rome and France and Field Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (1705) . His grandfather, the 5th Duke of Medina de Rioseco, had been Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera

Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera

Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera y Colonna, , Viceroy of Sicily, 1641–1644, Viceroy of Naples, 6 May 1644 - 1646, Member of the Spanish Council of war, member of the Royal Council of Spain, was since the age of 3, when his father Luis III Enriquez de Cabrera died, hereditary 9th Admiral of...

, Viceroy of Sicily , 1641 - 1644, Viceroy of Naples, 1644 - 1646.

He was politically exiled from Spain

Spain

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 by siding with Archduke Charles

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

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, later Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Charles VI of Austria (1685 - 1740) in the War of Spanish Succession.

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He married in 1662 with Ana Catalina de la Cerda Portocarrero, daughter of Antonio de la Cerda, 7th Duke of Medinaceli

Antonio de la Cerda, 7th Duke of Medinaceli

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. After his wife's death, he remarried in 1697 with her niece, Ana Catalina de la Cerda y de Cardona-Aragon, (1663 - 1698), widow since 1690 of Pedro Antonio de Aragón

Pedro Antonio de Aragón

Pedro Antonio de Aragón was a Spanish nobleman, military figure and politician who served under Kings Philip IV and Charles II of Spain. He was the brother of Cardinal Pascual de Aragón, Viceroy of Naples, 1664 - 1666. the son of Enrique Ramón Folch de Cardona y Córdoba. He was born in...

 5th Duke of Segorbe, Viceroy of Naples !664 - 1671, and daughter of Juan Francisco de la Cerda (1637-1691), 8th Duke of Medinaceli

Duke of Medinaceli

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, 6th Duke of Alcalá de los Gazules

Alcalá de los Gazules

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, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece

Order of the Golden Fleece

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 in 1670, PM of King Carlos II of Spain and many other lesser titles, and Catalina Antonia de Cardona-Aragon y Sandoval, 9th Duchess of Cardona, 8th Duchess of Segorbe on her own rights.

They had no surviving issue.

His wife Ana Catalina, was the sister of the 9th Duke of Medinaceli and main inheritor, Luis Francisco de la Cerda

Luis Francisco de la Cerda

Luis Francisco de la Cerda Aragón, , 9th Duke of Medinaceli, was a Spanish noble and politician....

 y de Cardona-Aragón, (1654 - in prison, in the Castle of Pamplona

Pamplona

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 in January 1711), who had married Maria de las Nieves Téllez Girón y Sandoval, + 1732.