This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (February 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Francisco de Valdés]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|es|Francisco de Valdés}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  "Francisco de Valdez" –  news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Francisco Valdez (1522? – 1580?) was a Spanish general during the Eighty Years War. He had command over the besieging forces of the Army of Flanders during the Siege of Leiden commencing in 1573 and led the failed attack on the city of Delft the same year. ^[1]

Early life

Born a peasant, Valdez served Emperor Charles V in the 1546 war with the Protestant factions of the Holy Roman Empire, and in 1550 he led an expedition against Tunis. In 1567 he accompanied the Duke of Alva to the Netherlands, to restore the authority of Philip II of Spain at the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt. He was married to Magdalena Moons in 1574.

References

External links

• Sánchez Martín, Juan Luis. "Francisco de Valdés". Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 28 January 2021.

This biographical article related to the military of Spain is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e