Career
He was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1675 and 1677. During his reign Spanish authority over the Southern Netherlands was nominal. France and the Dutch Republic could fight the Battle of Cassel (1677) on its territory without any significant Spanish contribution.
lieutenant was at that time, around 1677, he got reinforcements from the Spanish Governor of the Duchy of Milan, Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke of Osuna, receiving thus the military Tercio of Valladares commanded by Field Marshal Isidro de la Cueva - Benavides.
He was thus replaced by Alessandro Farnese, Prince of Parma who was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1678 until 1682. Further, the Brussels Military Academy (Royal and Military Academy of the Low Countries Army), was reinforced by Sebastián Fernández de Medrano, who got between his students Flemish Engineers as efficient as Prospero Jorge de Verboom.
He was Viceroy of Catalonia between 1688 and 1690 dying two years later. They had no children.