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Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares

1587 - 1645

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Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares, , known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (taken by joining both his countship and subsequent dukedom) (6 January 1587 – 22 July 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite (Spanish: valido) of Philip IV and minister. Appointed as Grandee on 10 April 1621, a day after the ending of the Twelve Years' Truce to January 1643, he over-exerted Spain in foreign affairs and unsuccessfully attempted domestic reform. His policy of committing Spain to recapture Holland led to a renewal of the Eighty Years' War while Spain was also embroiled in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares has received more than 233,669 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares is the 3,520th most popular politician (up from 3,568th in 2019), the 1,111th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,149th in 2019) and the 246th most popular Italian Politician.

Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares is most famous for being the Spanish statesman who served as the favorite minister of King Philip IV and King Philip IV's son, King Philip IV.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares ranks 3,520 out of 15,577. Before him are Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Karl Lueger, Miguel Díaz-Canel, Emperor Huan of Han, Emperor Ping of Han, and Drusus Julius Caesar. After him are Naoto Kan, Bianca Cappello, Sverre of Norway, Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, Abd al-Mu'min, and Bagoas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1587, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares ranks 3. Before him are Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy and Francesca Caccini. After him are Joost van den Vondel, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Samuel Scheidt, Stefano Landi, Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Esaias van de Velde, Magdalene of Bavaria, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Johannes Fabricius. Among people deceased in 1645, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares ranks 8. Before him are Hugo Grotius, Michael of Russia, Francisco de Quevedo, Li Zicheng, William Laud, and Nur Jahan. After him are Marie de Gournay, Anthony van Diemen, Feng Menglong, Eudoxia Streshneva, Mary Ward, and Gaspar de Borja y Velasco.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares ranks 1,111 out of 4,668. Before him are Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882), Persius (34), Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788), Pier Luigi Nervi (1891), Lucius Accius (-170), and Drusus Julius Caesar (-13). After him are Bianca Cappello (1548), Giovanni Battista Re (1934), Mary of Modena (1658), Hiero I of Syracuse (-600), Bettino Craxi (1934), and William III of Sicily (1185).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares ranks 246. Before him are Louis I of Etruria (1773), Filippo Maria Visconti (1392), Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany (1663), Sebastiano Venier (1496), Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882), and Drusus Julius Caesar (-13). After him are Bianca Cappello (1548), Hiero I of Syracuse (-600), Bettino Craxi (1934), William III of Sicily (1185), Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902), and Tarpeia (-800).

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