Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (born 1526)

Álvaro de Bazán, Marquis of Santa Cruz

16th-century Spanish admiral

Álvaro de Bazán y Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, was a Spanish admiral and landlord. He took part, among others, in the seizure of the rock of Vélez de la Gomera (1564), the relief to the besieged during the Great Siege of Malta (1565), the quelling of the Alpujarras…