Pedro III Fajardo, 5th Marquis of Los Vélez

Pedro III Fajardo de Zúñiga y Requesens (1602 – Palermo, Sicily, 3 November 1647) was a Spanish soldier and noble.

He was born in Mula, region of Murcia, son of Luis II Fajardo, 4th Marquis of Los Vélez, (1576–1631), the preceding Viceroy of Valencia (1628–1631) and a great-grandson of Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens.

Defeated at the Battle of Montjuïc in 1641, and forced to withdraw along the coast to Tarragona, which proved a devastating defeat to Spanish morale, he was dismissed and replaced as Viceroy of Catalonia by Pedro Antonio de Aragón (1642–1644).

He married Ana, a daughter of Fernando Afán de Ribera y Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Alcalá de los Gazules, Viceroy of Naples, deceased 1636.

He remarried with Mariana Engracia Álvarez de Toledo, from the family of the 6th Counts of Oropesa.

Pedro Fajardo de Zúñiga y Requeséns
Vélez Blanco Castle is located in the Province of Almería , Spain
Coat of arms of the Marquis of Los Vélez