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Luis Menéndez de Haro y Sotomayor, 6th marquis of Carpio, 3rd Duke of Olivares (
Valladolid,
1598 -
Madrid,
November 26 1661) was a
Spanish political figure and
general.
He was the son of don Diego de Haro, marquis of Carpio, and of doña Francisca de Guzmán, sister of
count Olivares.
He made a career at the Spanish court under protection of his uncle,
whom he succeeded as
valido or
favourite in the king's confidence when Olivares was driven from office in
1643.
He never achieved the same influence and control as his uncle, mainly because
Philip IV also relied on Sister
Maria de Agreda. She convinced the king to abolish the function of
valido.
Luis de Haro was the main Spanish negotiator of the
Treaty of the Pyrenees on
Pheasant Island in
1659.
He didn't succeed in avoiding a negative result, nor did he reach an anti-French alliance with
Oliver Cromwell.
The treaty was accompanied by a marriage between
Louis XIV of France and
Maria Theresa of Spain.
Luis de Haro played the part of the bridegroom in the
proxy marriage that took place at
Fuenterrabia on
June 3 1660.
His main success was the oppression of the Catalan uprising and the reconquest of
Barcelona in
1652.
The
Portuguese Restoration War on the contrary was a complete failure. Luis de Haro personally led the Spanish troups at the
Battle of the Lines of Elvas in
1659, which ended in total defeat.
He married in Barcelona on April 26,
1625 Catalina (April 26, 1610 - November 19, 1647), youngest daughter of Enrique de Córdoba Cardona y Aragón and had 6 children :
- Gaspar, (1629 - 1687), his successor and Viceroy of Naples.
- Juan Domingo (1640 - 1716), Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and Viceroy of Catalonia.
- Francisco
- Antonia, married Gaspar Juan Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, 10th Duke of Medina Sidonia
- Manuela, married Gaspar Vigil de Quiñones Alonso Pimentel y Benavides.
- María Méndez (1644 - 1693), married Gregorio María Domingo de Silva Mendoza y Sandoval.
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