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Alfonso Perez de Vivero, Count of Fuensaldana

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Name
  
Alfonso de


Alfonso Perez de Vivero, Count of Fuensaldana

Died
  
21 November 1661 Cambrai

Occupation
  
commander and statesman

Alfonso Pérez de Vivero (Valladolid, 1603 - Cambrai, 21 November 1661), Count of Fuensaldaña, was a Spanish soldier, nobleman and officeholder.

In 1632, when in his late twenties, he went to Flanders with a commission as captain of a company in the Army of Flanders. In 1635 he became governor of the citadel of Cambrai, and in 1636 Maestro de Campo. He was general of artillery on the French front in 1640–1641, general of cavalry on the Dutch front in 1643, general of infantry on the French front 1644–1646, and governor of arms (second-in-command of the whole army) 1648–1656. He was Governor of Milan from 1656 to 1660. In 1660 he retired from public life, withdrawing to Cambrai, where he died.

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Alfonso Pérez de Vivero, Count of Fuensaldaña Wikipedia