Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares
Equestrian portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count of Olivares and Duke of San Lúcar (January 6, 1587 - July 22, 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite and minister. ...
Gasparde Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares
Don Gasparde Guzmán y Pimentel, Count of Olivares and Duke of San Lúcar (es: Gasparde Guzmán y Pimentel, conde-duque de Olivares, also known as Conde de Olivares y duque de Sanlúcar la Mayor) (January 6, 1587 - July 22, 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite and minister.
During the life of King Philip III he was appointed to a post in the household of the heir apparent, Philip, by the interest of his maternal uncle Don Baltasar de Zúñiga, who was the head of the prince's establishment.
GASPARDEGUZMAN OLIVARES, count of Olivares and duke of San Lucar (1587-1645), Spanish royal favourite and minister, was born in Rome, where his father was Spanish ambassador, on the 6th of January 1587.
Olivares could now boast to his uncle Don Baltasar de Zuniga that he was "all." He became what is known in Spain as a valido - something more than a prime minister, the favourite and alter ego of the king.
The Nicandro was denounced to the Inquisition, and it is not impossible that Olivares might have ended in the prisons of the Holy Office, or on the scaffold, if he had not died on the 22nd of July 1645.
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