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Pedro Fajardo de Zúñiga y Requesens (Mula

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, region of Murcia

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, 1602 -Palermo

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, Sicily

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, 1647), Viceroy of Valencia, 1631–1635, Viceroy of Navarre, 1638–1640, dismissed Viceroy of Catalonia, 1640–1642, to be replaced as Viceroy of Catalonia  by 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...

, 1642–1644, Ambassador at Rome, and Viceroy of Sicily, 1644 - Palermo

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, Sicily

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, 3 November 1647, was a Spanish soldier

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 and aristocrat

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 notable for his command of Spanish forces during the Catalan Revolt

Catalan Revolt

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, after 1640. He was 5th Marqués de los Vélez since 1631, and Grandee of Spain. He was a great-grandson of Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens

Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens

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 and the son of Luis Fajardo Requesens y Zúñiga, Marqués de los Vélez, (1576–1631), the preceding Viceroy of Valencia, 1628–1631, deceased 1631, 4th Marqués de los Vélez.
He joined the Spanish army and rose up the ranks to General. He was Viceroy of Valencia, 1631–1636, Viceroy of Navarre, 1638–1640. In 1641 when the Catalan Revolt

Catalan Revolt

The Catalan Revolt affected a large part of the Catalan Principality of Catalonia between the years of 1640 and 1659. It had an enduring effect in the Treaty of the Pyrenees , which ceded the county of Roussillon and the northern half of the county of Cerdanya to France , thereby splitting the...

 broke out, he led a Spanish force into Catalonia

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 which aimed to capture Barcelona

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 and crush the revolt. He was defeated at the Battle of Montjuïc

Battle of Montjuïc (1641)

Battle of Montjuïc took place on 26 January 1641 during the Catalan Revolt. A Spanish force under Pedro Fajardo launched an attack on a Catalan rebel force, made up mainly of Miquelet militias led by Francesc de Tamarit, and their French allies....

 in 1641, and forced to withdraw along the coast to Tarragona

Tarragona

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 which proved a devastating defeat to Spanish morale. He was dismissed and replaced as Viceroy of Catalonia by Pedro Antonio de Aragón

Pedro Antonio de Aragón

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, 1642–1644. Afterwards he was also a Viceroy of Sicily, 1644 - 1647.

He married Ana, a daughter of Fernando Afán de Ribera y Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Alcalá de los Gazules, Viceroy of Naples, deceased 1636, but when he died in 1642 there was no issue from this marriage, although there was issue from a second marriage with Mariana Engracia Älvarez de Toledo y Portugal, from the family of the 6th Counts of Oropesa

Oropesa

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 not to be confounded with those älvarez de Toledo being Dukes of Alba

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 or those being Marquisses of Villafranca del Bierzo

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, for instance:

He was thus, from his second marriage, the father of Fernando Fajardo y Alvarez de Toledo, a.k.a. Fernando Joaquín Fajardo de Zúñiga Requesens, 6th Marquis de los Vélez, ( before 1642 - Zaragoza

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, Spain

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, 1693), 6th Marqués de los Vélez since 1647, Viceroy of Sardinia, 1673–1675, and Viceroy of Naples, 1675 - 1683.