Fadrique de Toledo, 1st Marquess of Valdueza

Fadrique de Toledo Osorio, 1st Marquess of Valdueza (30 May 1580 – 11 December 1634), was a Spanish Navy officer and nobleman.

He served in the Spanish fleet under command of his father and rose quickly through the ranks, as did his elder brother García de Toledo Osorio, 6th Marquess of Villafranca.

In 1617, he became Captain General of the Ocean Sea Navy, replacing the late Admiral Luis Fajardo.

This victory would prove decisively important in the Dutch-Portuguese War to oust the Dutch from Brazil over the next two decades.

In 1629 he commanded a Spanish expedition that expelled the English and French colonial settlers from the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The recuperation of 1 May 1625 of the Brazilian Portuguese town of Salvador de Bahia by Spanish and Portuguese troops commanded by Captain General of the Fleet Fadrique II de Toledo Osorio y Mendoza, a painting by Fray Juan Bautista Maíno for King Philip IV of Spain , Philip III of Portugal . Museo del Prado , Madrid , Spain. Don Fadrique II is the big "en bonpoint" nobleman presenting it to King Philip IV and Prime Minister Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares