Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares
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Gaspar de Guzmán y Acevedo, 1st Count-Duke of Olivares (Template:Lang-es, also known as Template:Lang) (January 6, 1587 – July 22, 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister. As prime minister from 1621 to 1643, he over-exerted Spain in foreign affairs and unsuccessfully attempted domestic reform. His policies of committing Spain to recapture Holland led to his major involvement in the Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648) and his attempts to centralise power and increase wartime taxation led to revolts in Catalonia and Portugal which brought about his fall.
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