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The Great Favourite: The Duke of Lerma and the Court and Government of Philip III of Spain, 1598-1621

The Great Favourite: The Duke of Lerma and the Court and Government of Philip III of Spain, 1598-1621

Williams, Patrick

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Series: Studies in Early Modern European History

General World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

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ISBN10: 0719051371
ISBN13: 9780719051371
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jan 31 2007
Pages: 336
Language: English
Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, Duke of Lerma (1553-1625) is the last major unknown statesman in modern European history. Patrick Williams brings him dramatically to life and challenges the assumptions that historians have made about him and about Spanish history at a time of profound crisis,
inviting a re-evaluation of the phenomenon of government by favourites in this seminal period of European history.

Lerma served Philip III as his favourite and first minister between 1598 and 1618. His power dazzled contemporaries; one petitioner telling Philip that he had come to see him 'because I could not get an appointment with the Duke of Lerma'. Within a decade of assuming office Lerma had raised his

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