Martín de Córdoba y Velasco, marqués de Cortes

He was the third son of Martín Alonso Fernández de Córdoba Montemayor y Velasco, conde de Alcaudete and Maria Leonor Pacheco.

He participated in the disastrous Expedition of Mostaganem (1558), where his father was killed.

Martín de Córdoba was captured and imprisoned as a Christian slave in Algiers under the beylerbey Hasan Pasha, until he was exchanged for the huge ransom of 23,000 escudos by his brother Alfonso de Córdoba y Velasco.

He distinguished himself in repulsing the Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir in 1563.

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