Juan Fernández de Velasco y Tovar, 5th Duke of Frías

Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frías[1] (c. 1550 – 15 March 1613) was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat.

Juan Fernández de Velasco, 5th Duke of Frías
Bornc. 1550
Died(1613-03-15)15 March 1613
Madrid
Noble familyHouse of Velasco
Spouse(s)María Girón de Guzmán
FatherÍñigo Fernández de Velasco, 4th Duke of Frías
MotherMaría Ángela de Aragón y Guzmán El Bueno

Biography

Juan Fernández de Velasco was the son of Íñigo Fernández de Velasco; and of Maria Angela de Aragón y Guzmán El Bueno. He inherited his father's title of Constable of Castile, and was present at the signing of the Treaty of London (1604).

The Spanish ambassador, the Count of Villamediana, asked King James if Velasco could be lodged at Somerset House, and Anne of Denmark granted his request.[2] The lodging was decorated with royal tapestries, and his bedchamber furnished with a bed of "morado damask" bordered with gold. Velasco arrived on 20 August 1604.[3]

He came to Somerset House on a barge on the Thames. His arrival was watched by spectators in boats, including Anne of Denmark, the Countess of Suffolk, the Earl of Nottingham, and Robert Cecil. The queen wore a mask and their barge was disguised, without royal insignia.[4]

He saw King James on 25 August and had an audience with Anne of Denmark three days later, and he watched Prince Henry dance and exercise with a pike in the garden. He gave the prince a pony.[5]

Juan Fernández de Velasco was Governor of the Duchy of Milan in the period 1592–1600 and 1610–1612. In 1595, he led the Spanish forces in the Battle of Fontaine-Française against the French, where he let victory slip through his fingers, due to excessive caution.

Works
Quaderno de varias escrituras en las diferencias de iuridiciones ecclesiastica y real del estado de Milan, 1597
  • Quaderno de varias escrituras en las diferencias de iuridiciones ecclesiastica y real del estado de Milan (in Spanish). Milano: Georg Herolt. 1597.

Descendants

Around 1580, the Duke married María Girón de Guzmán, eldest daughter of Pedro Girón de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Osuna. Together they had a son and a daughter. The daughter, Ana de Velasco y Girón in turn married Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza and in 1604 gave birth to João, 8th Duke of Bragança, who was crowned King João IV of Portugal on 1 December 1640. In 1608, after the death of his first wife, Juan Fernández de Velasco married Joana de Córdoba y Aragón, and together they had three children:

By María Girón de Guzmán:

By Joana de Córdoba y Aragón:

Notes
  1. In full, Spanish: Don Juan Fernández de Velasco y Aragón, quinto duque de Frías, décimo Condestable de Castilla, septimo conde de Haro, tercer marqués de Berlanga, tercer conde de Castilnovo, noveno mayorazgo y señor de la Casa de Velasco, señor de la Casa y Estado de Tovar, Camarero mayor y Copero mayor del Rey, gobernador y capitán general del Estado de Milán, presidente del Consejo de Italia, del Consejo de Estado y de Guerra. embajador de SM en Inglaterra
  2. Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 148 no. 207.
  3. Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 175 no. 261: Henry Ellis, Original Letters, series 2 vol. 3 (London, 1827), p. 209.
  4. John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 4 (London, 1828), p. 1063: Henry Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd series vol. 3, pp. 207-15, citing Relacion de la Jornada de Condestable de Castilla en Londres 1604 (Antwerp, 1604).
  5. Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 10 (London, 1900), p. 178 no. 266.

Sources
  • Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e Cunha, Fernando de (1995). Instrumentário Genealógico – Linhagens Milenárias (in Portuguese). pp. 329–30.
  • Hobbs, Nicolas (2007). "Grandes de España" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2008.
  • Instituto de Salazar y Castro. Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles (in Spanish). periodic publication.
  • "Genealogia" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2008.


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