Francisco Ruiz de Castro y de Sandoval-Rojas (May 1579 - 1637), was a Spanish nobleman and politician the 8th Count of Lemos.
Biography
editFrancisco Ruiz de Castro was born in Madrid. His father, Fernando Ruiz de Castro, was Viceroy of Naples from 1599 to 1601 and Francisco succeeded him in the same year. His elder brother Pedro Fernández de Castro, 7th count of Lemos, will be later also Viceroy of Naples in 1610–1616 [1].
Francisco remained in Naples until April 1603. In 1616 he became Viceroy of Sicily, a position he held until 1622 [1]. He played an instrumental role in establishing the Orfanotrofio del Buon Pastore in Palermo; a boy's orphanage which eventually evolved into the Palermo Conservatory of Music.[2][3]
In 1629, he became a Benedictine monk at the monastery of San Benito in Sahagun, with the name of Father Agustín de Castro. He died in 1637, and was interred at Monforte de Lemos, Galicia, his family's burial place [1].
Marriage and children
editHe married in 1610 with Lucrecia Legnano de Gattinara, Duchess of Taurisano (1590-1623 in childbirth).
They had 7 chidren of which 4 died very young. He was succeeded by his eldest son
- Francisco Fernández De Castro, 9th Count of Lemos (1613-1663) [1].
Sources
editCitations
edit- ^ a b c d Real academia de la Historia
- ^ Paolo Emilio Carapezza and Giuseppe Collisani (2001). "Palermo". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20745.
- ^ Gaetano Daita (1873). R. Collegio musicale del Buon Pastore in Palermo. Stablimento Tipigrafico LAO; held in The British Library. p. 3.
Bibliography
edit- Elorza, Juan C.; Lourdes Vaquero, Belén Castillo, Marta Negro (1990). Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Bienestar Social (ed.). El Panteón Real de las Huelgas de Burgos. Los enterramientos de los reyes de León y de Castilla, 2ª edición, Editorial Evergráficas S.A., pp. 54. ISBN 84-241-9999-5.
- Augustinian Father J.M. Cuenca Coloma, Sahagún, monasterio y villa (1085-1985) Edit. Estudio Agustiniano 1985. Another edition, Valladolid, 1993.
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