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Also Known As duque de Sanlúcar de Barrameda • Count of Olivares
Born January 16, 1587 • Rome • Italy
Died July 22, 1645 (aged 58) • Toro • Spain
Title / Office prime minister (1623-1643), Spain
Role In Eighty Years’ War • Thirty Years’ War

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