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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz

1526 - 1588

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Álvaro de Bazán y Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz (12 December 1526 – 9 February 1588), was a 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), the quelling of the Alpujarras Rebellion (1569), the Battle of Lepanto (1571), the conquest of Tunis (1573), the incorporation of Portugal to the Hispanic monarchy (1580), and the conquest of Terceira (1582).He was never defeated, a remarkable achievement in a fifty-year-long career. His personal galley was known as La Loba ('The She-Wolf'), after her golden figurehead. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz has received more than 50,450 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz is the 801st most popular military personnel (down from 669th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Spain (down from 573rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Spanish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz ranks 801 out of 1,468Before him are Yekaterina Budanova, Gunichi Mikawa, Nureddin Pasha, Dietrich von Saucken, Karl Ernst, and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau. After him are Walter Stennes, Martin Gottfried Weiss, Philip Sheridan, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Henri Gouraud, and Otto von Lossow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1526, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz ranks 11Before him are Rafael Bombelli, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Benedict the Moor, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, and Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. After him are Bâkî and Juan Fernández Navarrete. Among people deceased in 1588, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz ranks 12Before him are 3rd Dalai Lama, Henri, Prince of Condé, Qi Jiguang, Johann Weyer, Bernardino Telesio, and Alonso Sánchez Coello. After him are Giorgio Biandrata, Louis of Granada, Diego Durán, Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Nicolás Monardes.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz ranks 656 out of 2,932Before him are Caterina Albert (1869), Fernando de Rojas (1470), Eulogius of Córdoba (810), Pilar Bardem (1939), Juande Ramos (1954), and Ahmad al-Muqtadir (1050). After him are Ferdinand de la Cerda (1255), Agila I (null), Count Theodosius (310), Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva (1895), Luis de Morales (1509), and Abu Hamid al-Gharnati (1080).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Spain

Among military personnels born in Spain, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz ranks 11Before him are Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453), John of Austria the Younger (1629), José Sanjurjo (1872), Antonio Tejero (1932), Inés Suárez (1507), and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1550). After him are Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma (1553), Gaius Laelius (-300), Serena (365), Blas de Lezo (1689), José Miaja (1878), and Agustina de Aragón (1786).