Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar 1567-1626 referred to simply as Count Gondomar, was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat. He twice served as Spain’s ambassador to England and later held an informal but influential role as Spain’s leading expert on English affairs, a position he maintained until his death
Published by William Richardson, after Simon de Passe
Size 14 x 12 cm
Price £28.00
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Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.
Artist/Engraver Jacob Matham (extensive text verso)
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3659
Queen of Spain from 1649 until the death of her husband Philip IV in 1665. She was appointed Queen Regent for their three year old son Carlos II and owing to his ill health, remained an influential figure until her own death in 1696.
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Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2918
Spanish admiral and landlord.
He took part in the seizure of the rock of Vélez de la Gomera (1564), the relief to the besieged during the Great Siege of Malta (1565),
Size 9 x 14 cm
Price £12.00
Ref:3533
Son of Maximillian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain; brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Educated in the court of Spain. Governor of Austria from 1576. Knight of the Golden Fleece. From 1594-1595 served as Governor of Spanish Netherlands.
Artist/Engraver Hoef
Size 18 x 19 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3665
Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.
Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 16 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3656
Charles of Austria named Cienfuegos his envoy to Portugal and retained him as an advisor. At the end of the war of 1714, Charles VI, then emperor, called him to Venice and in 1720 succeeded in having him named cardinal. In 1722 he was consecrated bishop of Catania and in 1724 archbishop of Monreal. Cienfuegos had to renounce his archbishopric when the Bourbons occupied the kingdom of the two Sicilies. He was then given the see of Fünfkirchen by the emperor (1735), although he continued to live in Rome as the emperor’s legate and held important posts in Roman congregations until his death.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2866
Johann Cuyermans (born 1600), Spanish Council of Brabant and Messenger for Peace of Westphalia.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Matthaeus Merian
Size 18 x 13 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3034
Spanish and Portuguese prince, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo, and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War.
Size 10.5 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:877
Eleonora Gonzaga was by birth Princess of Mantua, Nevers and Rethel from the Nevers branch of the House of Gonzaga and was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand III.
Size 12.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:897