Alfonso Clemente de Aróstegui

He worked as a Professor for the Departments of Law and Institutions in 1731 and of Canons and Decrees in 1732 at the University Complutense and in Zaragoza's mayor's officein 1739.

When Cardinal Acquaviva died, he was appointed interim minister plenipotentiary of Spain in Rome (1748).

After his return to Spain, he became a royal commissioner of the Council and Commissariat of the Holy Crusade.

He was also a member of the Chamber of Castile sinde 1756 and of the Spanish Council of State since 1759.

[1] Before he died in 1774, he bequeathed all his books to the college of the Seminario de San Julián in Cuenca, also leaving two trusts to support librarians and their corresponding libraries, and two student scholarships.