Francisco Antonio de Agurto, 1st Marquess of Gastañaga
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Francisco Antonio de Agurto y Salcedo Medrano Zúñiga, 1st Marquess of Gastañaga (1640 – 2 November 1702) was a Spanish nobleman, Knight of the Order of Alcantara, of His Majesty's Supreme War Council, General Field Marshal of the Netherlands, Governor and Captain General of the Spanish Netherlands and Viceroy of Catalonia, of Basque origin. Francisco Antonio was the son of Don Antonio de Agurto y Alava and Catalina de Salcedo y Medrano, daughter of Iñigo López de Salcedo Camargo and María Melchora de Medrano Zúñiga y Vallejo.
He was born in Vitoria. He became the I Marquess de Gastañaga and was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1685 and 1692. He led the Spanish troops in the Battle of Fleurus (1690) and unsuccessfully defended Mons against the French.