Juan Tomas Enriquez de Cabrera, 7th Duke of Medina de Rioseco
April 11, 2024
Juan Tomás Enríquez de Cabrera y Ponce de Leon, VII Duque de Medina de Río-Seco (Genoa, Italy, 1646 – Estremoz, Portugal, 1705), was a Spanish noble and military leader.
Portrait of the 7th Duke of Medina de Rioseco, c. 1702
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He belonged to the important Enríquez family, whose title Duque de Medina de Río-Seco was awarded by King Charles I of Spain, Emperor Charles V, in April 1538. His father was Juan Gaspar Enríquez de Cabrera y Sandoval and his grandfather, Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera, 5th Duke of Medina de Rioseco, Viceroy of Sicily, in 1641–1644, and Viceroy of Naples in 1644–1646.
After his wife's death, he remarried in 1697 with her niece, Ana Catalina de la Cerda y de Cardona-Aragon, (1663–1698), widow since 1690 of Pedro Antonio de Aragón 5th Duke of Segorbe, Viceroy of Naples in 1664–1671, and daughter of Juan Francisco de la Cerda (1637–1691), 8th Duke of Medinaceli, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1670, PM of King Carlos II of Spain and many other lesser titles, and Catalina Antonia de Cardona-Aragon y Sandoval, 9th Duchess of Cardona, 8th Duchess of Segorbe on her own rights.
He had no surviving issue and was succeeded by his brother Luis Enríquez de Cabrera y Álvarez de Toledo (1649–1713).
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