Dalmau de Queralt, Count of Santa Coloma

Dalmau de Queralt i de Codina, Count of Santa Coloma (Catalan pronunciation: [dəɫˈmaw ðə kəˈɾaɫ]) (? - Barcelona, June 7 of 1640), was a Catalan noble, viceroy of Catalonia between 1638 and 1640, who was assassinated by Catalan rebels at the beginning of the Catalan Revolt.

Biography

Dalmau was the son of Pere de Queralt and Icart Cardona i Luyando, first Count of Santa Coloma, and his wife Maria Codina.

He was named viceroy in 1638 by Philip IV, after the resignation of Enric d'Aragó Folc de Cardona i Còrdova. During the years 1639 and 1640 he participated in the campaigns of Roussillon against the French as the adjutant of general Espínola, generalissimo of the armies of the Spanish monarchy on the frontier with France, in the framework of the Thirty Years War.

External links

• Condado de Santa Coloma

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Name	De Queralt Y Codina, Dalmau
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