SPINOLA, AMBROGIO

ämbrôˈjō spēˈnōlä, 1569–1630, Spanish general, b. Italy, of a noble Genoese family. In 1602, Spinola entered Spanish service in the Netherlands. He took (1604) Ostend from Maurice of Nassau after a long siege and then carried the war into the northern provinces. Named commander in chief in the Netherlands by Philip II in 1605, Spinola negotiated the 12-year truce of 1609. Early in the Thirty Years War he led (1620) an army into the Palatinate against the Protestant Union; the following year he was created marqués de los Balbases by Philip IV. After the resumption (1621) of the fighting in the Netherlands, Spinola returned there and captured (1625) Breda. However, his conciliatory policy lost him the favor of Philip IV, who appointed him (1629) governor of Milan. Spinola died while trying to take Casale in the War of the Mantuan Succession.

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The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660
Book by Richard Bonney; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Europe--History--1492-1648
...mace, and cloves 442 , 450 pepper 432 , 442 , 451 Spinola, Ambrogio 1569-1630 , marquis of Los Balbases, Spanish general...with Dutch 180 threatens Gelderland and Overijssel 186 Spinola, Lorenzo, financier of Philip II 358 spirituali 58...
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Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair
Book by Ben Jonson, Gordon Campbell; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Drama
...Archdukes; Jonson is mocking the common English view that the Catholic signatories could not be trusted. 51 Spinola : Ambrogio de Spinola commanded the Spanish army in the Netherlands; he was popularly said to have hired a whale to swim up the...
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The History of Spain
Book by Peter Pierson; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Spain--History
...73 ; loss, 75 Spanish Sahara, 174 Spanish Succession, war of, 73 - 75 Spellman, Francis, cardinal, 162 Spinola, Ambrogio, 69 Sports, 15 - 16 Stalin, Joseph, 135 , 140 , 141 , 146 , 151 , 152 , 160 , 161 Strikes, 107 , 118 ; legalized...
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Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700
Book by Adam Fox; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: England--Social Life And Customs--16th Century, England--Social Life And Customs--17th Century, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Oral Tradition--England--History--16th Century, Oral Tradition--England--History--17th Century, Popular Culture--England--History--16th Century, Popular Culture--England--History--17th Century, Popular Literature--England--History And Criticism
...author 122 Spenser, Edmund (: ;;2-??), poet 306, 326n. Spicer, Henry 138 spinning, sewing 27-8, 189 9 Spinola, Ambrogio, Italian general 350 o spirits Igg, I94 Spirling 3 I z spoorne 195 Spotfiswood, John (I 565-1639), abp...
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Europe and England in the Sixteenth Century
Book by T. A. Morris; Routledge, 1998
...196 , 197 Spain 5 , 103 -22, 284 -96, 334 -5, 344 -5 Speyer, Diet of 1526 214 Speyer, Diet of 1529 215 Spinola, Ambrogio 276 , 279 Spiritual Exercises, The 89 Spurs, Battle of the 1513 159 Stanley, Thomas, Lord 129 Stanley, Sir...
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Circa 1600: Spanish Values and Tuscan Painting
Journal article by Edward L. Goldberg; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Painters, Italian--Practice, Painting, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...significant power as well, and her inseparable confidant was Magdalena de Guzman, Marquesa del Valle. The Genoese Ambrogio Spinola often acted for the Tuscans at the Spanish court, and he approached de Guzman with the offer of gifts from Grand...


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Who Invented the Telescope? Nick Pelling Suggests That Credit Should Go Not to the Netherlands but Much Further South to Catalonia
Magazine article by Nick Pelling; History Today, Vol. 58, October 2008
Subjects: Catalonia, Spain, Inventions--Social aspects, Inventors--Works, Telescope--History, Telescopes--History
...turn showed it to the leaders of the other provinces, and also to the greatly amazed Spanish commander-in-chief Ambrogio Spinola, who remarked: From now on I could no longer be safe, for you will see me from afar. Rumours of the new device...


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encyclopedia articles on: Spinola Ambrogio  - 3 results

 
 
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Spinola, Ambrogio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SPINOLA, AMBROGIO ambro jo spe nola, 1569 1630, Spanish...of a noble Genoese family. In 1602, Spinola entered Spanish service in the Netherlands...the Netherlands by Philip II in 1605, Spinola negotiated the 12-year truce of 1609...
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Oostende
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...played a leading role in the Dutch struggle for independence. The city was taken (1604) by the Spaniards under Ambrogio Spinola after a three-year siege in which it was almost totally destroyed, was sacked again in 1745 by the French, and...
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Breda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...foods. Breda was founded by the 11th cent. The city was successfully besieged (1624 25) by the Spaniards under Ambrogio Spinola ; the surrender of its heroic garrison is the subject of a famous painting by Velazquez . Points of interest in the...


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