Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos

Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos, (2 January 1602 – 1658) was a Grandee of Spain and a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He served as Viceroy of Valencia and of Naples.

As Viceroy of Naples, the Duke of Arcos suppressed a revolt inhabitants of the city of Naples led by Masaniello but was soon faced with another revolt against Spanish rule, which resulted in the proclamation of the short-lived Neapolitan Republic.^[1]

References

^ Geoffrey Parker: Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Castastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780300208634. pp. 427–434

Government offices
Preceded by Francisco de Borja, Duque de Gandia	Viceroy of Valencia 1642–1645	Succeeded by Duarte Fernández, Count of Oropesa
Preceded by Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera y Colonna, count of Modica, 1600 - 1647	Viceroy of Naples 1646–1648	Succeeded by John of Austria the Younger
Spanish nobility
Preceded by Rodrigo Ponce de León, 3rd Duke of Arcos	Duke of Arcos 1630–1658	Succeeded by Francisco Ponce de León, 5th Duke of Arcos
Preceded by Luis Ponce de León, 6th Marquis of Zahara	Marquis of Zahara 1605–1632	Succeeded by Francisco Ponce de León, 5th Duke of Arcos

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[1] Geoffrey Parker: Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Castastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780300208634. pp. 427–434

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