significance to Bedmar

• InAlonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar

  …Spain as ambassador to theVenetian Republic (1607), he was made marqués de Bedmar in 1614. He used his diplomatic privileges to promote the plans of the Spanish viceroys of Naples and Milan and to increase Spanish power in Italy. Resolutely opposed to Bedmar’s activities, Venice fabricated an alleged conspiracy…

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