About Juan Tomas Enriquez de Cabrera, 7th Duke of Medina de Rioseco
Juan Tomás EnrĂquez de Cabrera y Ponce de Leon, VII Duque de Medina de RĂo-Seco (Genoa, Italy, 1646 – Estremoz, Portugal, 1705), was a Spanish noble and military.
He belonged to the important EnrĂquez family, whose title Duque de Medina de RĂo-Seco was awarded by King Charles I of Spain, Emperor Charles V, in April 1538.
He was the 11th and last hereditary Admiral of Castile, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, (1678–1686), Viceroy of Catalonia, (1688), member of the State Council, ambassador in Rome and France, Caballerizo mayor to the King and Field Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (1705).
His grandfather, the 5th Duke of Medina de Rioseco, had been Juan Alfonso EnrĂquez de Cabrera, Viceroy of Sicily, in 1641–1644, and Viceroy of Naples in 1644–1646.
He was politically exiled from Spain by siding with Archduke Charles, later Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Charles VI of Austria (1685–1740) in the War of Spanish Succession.
He married in 1662 with Ana Catalina de la Cerda Portocarrero, daughter of Antonio de la Cerda, 7th Duke of Medinaceli.