Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna

Who was Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna?

Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna, 5th Marquess of Peñafiel, 9th Count of Ureña and other lesser titles, was a Spanish general and a Grandee of Spain, title bestowed by king Philip II of Spain on 5 February 1562 when Pedro Téllez-Girón y de la Cueva, 5th Count of Ureña, a.k.a. Pedro Girón de la Cueva, Viceroy of Naples, was given the title of 1st Duke of Osuna. Osuna, a very old town at the province of Seville, was already an indigenous Iberian civilization town occupied by the Romans well over 2,000 years ago.

The Dukes of Osuna, in general, have excelled as Viceroys and/or Governors in European territories linked or broadly allied with Imperial Spain for several centuries.

He lost the Battle of Castelo Rodrigo in 1664, as part of the Portuguese Restoration War. He was Viceroy of Catalonia, 1667–1669, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, Italy, when he was replaced by Claude Lamoral, Prince of Ligne.