Francisco de Tutavilla y del Rufo, Duque de San Germán

Biography

At the time of the Portuguese Restoration War, 1657–1663, he was a General of the Extremadura Army fighting at the Sieges of Olivenza, Badajoz and Monção. His troops were defeated at Elvas, in 1659, and heavily defeated at Ameixial, in 1663, which ended his participation in the campaign of Portugal.

From April 1664 until February 1668, he was Viceroy of Navarre. At the end of 1668, he was the successor of the assassinated Viceroy of Sardinia, Manuel de los Cobos, 4th Marquis of Camarasa, a post he held until January 1673. He then became Viceroy of Catalonia, (August 1673 - October 1675).

In 1674 he captured the Fort de Bellegarde, held by the French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France and Spain, and won the Battle of Maureillas over a French army led by Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg. The eruption of a revolt in Messina against the Spanish rule in 1675, however, forced him to send many of his troops to suppress the rebellion, and Schomberg was able to take back Bellegarde.

Duke Francisco de Tutavilla y del Tufo was married to a Spanish noblewoman, mainly of Portuguese ancestors, Catalina de Cárdenas Colón de Toledo y Portugal, 14th Countess of la Puebla del Maestre and 5th Marchioness of Bacares, who died in Madrid on 4 January 1701. The couple had no children.

References

;Sources

• http://www.nobili-napoletani.it/Tufo.htm
• http://www.genmarenostrum.com/pagine-lettere/letterat/del%20Tufo/DEL%20TUFO-LAVELLO.htm

References

1. Lynn, John A.: ''The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714''. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013, {{ISBN. 1317899512, p. 135.