Cesare d'Avalos
Cesare d'Ávalos | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 July 1536 |
| Died | 21 August 1614 (aged 78) Kingdom of Naples |
| Allegiance |  Kingdom of Naples Spanish Empire |
Branch | Navy Army |
Service years | 1568-1583 |
Rank | Captain |
Conflicts | |
| Awards | Order of Alcántara |
Cesare d'Ávalos (16 July 1536 – 21 August 1614), Marquis of Padula, was a Neapolitan nobleman and military man in the service of the Hispanic Monarchy.
Biography
He was the fifth child of Alfonso d'Avalos and Maria d'Aragona. Like his father, he started a military career for the Spanish Empire, now during the reign of Philip II. He was present in the Eighty Years' War, participating in the Battle of Jemmingen under the Duke of Alba.[1]
Three years later he was part of the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire, serving under Don John of Austria. During the Battle of Lepanto, he commanded the League's galleon squad, but was left outside of the when his sailing ships, lacking rows like their galleys and galleasses, failed to arrive in time.[2] The following year he captained the Spanish galleon division during the conquest of Tunis.[3] He was later in the War of the Portuguese Succession, where Alba and Álvaro de Bazán, also a veteran of Lepanto, defeated the foreign coalition trying to prevent Philip II from inheriting the Portuguese Empire.[1]
He was rewarded by being inducted into the Order of Alcántara, and later became great chancellor of the Kingdom of Naples, one of its seven highest posts.[4][5] In 1603, he sold Buonabitacolo and Padula to Giovan Gerolamo de Ponte and built the palace later known as the Palace Carafa di Maddaloni. Portraits of him and his brothers Francesco and Giovanni were painted by Bernardino Campi, whom they were patrons of.[6]
Issue
On November 24 1577 he married Lucrezia del Tufo, daughter of Giovanni Girolamo del Tufo and Antonia Carafa, having two sons: Giovanni, who was appointed Prince of Montesarchio by Philip IV in 1628, and Innico, who inherited the marquisates of Pescara and Vasto after marrying his niece Isabella d'Ávalos.
References
- 1 2 Commentaires de Bernardino de Mendoça sur les évènements de la guerre des Pays-Bas 1567-1577 en Collection De Mémoires Relatifs À L'histoire De Beligique, Issue 8, Sociéte de l'histoire de Belgique, Brussels, p. 141
- ↑ José María Gárate Córdoba, Los tercios de España en la ocasión de Lepanto, Servicio Histórico Militar, 1971
- ↑ Famiano Strada, Guerras de Flandes: Primera Decada, Deside La Muerte Del Emperador Carlos V. Hasta El Principo Del Govierno De Alexandro Farnese, Tercero Duque De Parma Y Placencia, Volumen 1, Marcos-Miguel Bousquet, 1749
- ↑ Revista Hidalguía número 83. Año 1967, p. 475
- ↑ Biagio Aldimari, Historia genealogica della famiglia Carafa, divisa in tre libri, volume 2, Giacomo Raillard, 1691
- ↑ Pietro Ebner, Chiesa, baroni e popolo nel Cilento, vol. 2, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1982, p. 249.