a capable ruler. Madrid favored John of Austria the Younger, the twelve-year-old illegitimate son of Philip IV and the actress María Calderón. The inauguration of the unpopular bastard was delayed, and the rule of the Spanish Netherlands was taken over by Francisco de Mello, Marquis of Terceira. Ancestry Notes External links WER war WER - im Dreißigjährigen Krieg Enrique Garcia-Herraiz:Un nuevo retrato del Cardenal Infante don Fernando, conmemorando la victoria de Nördlingen 1610 births 1641 deaths People from San Lorenzo de El Escorial Spanish infantes Portuguese infantes 17th-century House of Habsburg Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands Spanish generals 17th-century Spanish cardinals Viceroys of Catalonia Archbishops of Toledo 17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Spain Burials in the Pantheon of Infantes at El Escorial Military personnel of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) Military personnel of the Thirty Years' War Sons of kings