. Pedro Fajardo de Zúñiga y Requesens (Mula, region of Murcia, 1602 -Palermo, Sicily, 1647), Viceroy of Valencia, 1631–1635, Viceroy of Navarre, 1638–1640, dismissed Viceroy of Catalonia, 1640–1642, to be replaced as Viceroy of Catalonia by Pedro Antonio de Aragón, 1642–1644, Ambassador at Rome, and Viceroy of Sicily, 1644 - Palermo, Sicily, 3 November 1647, was a Spanish soldier and aristocrat notable for his command of Spanish forces during the Catalan Revolt, after 1640. He was 5th Marqués de los Vélez since 1631, and Grandee of Spain. He was a great-grandson of Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens and the son of Luis Fajardo Requesens y Zúñiga, Marqués de los Vélez, (1576–1631), the preceding Viceroy of Valencia, 1628–1631, deceased 1631, 4th Marqués de los Vélez.
He joined the Spanish army and rose up the ranks to General. He was Viceroy of Valencia, 1631–1636, Viceroy of Navarre, 1638–1640. In 1641 when the Catalan Revolt broke out, he led a Spanish force into Catalonia which aimed to capture Barcelona and crush the revolt. He was 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. Afterwards he was also a Viceroy of Sicily, 1644 - 1647.
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, but when he died in 1642 there was no issue from this marriage, although there was issue from a second marriage with Mariana Engracia Älvarez de Toledo y Portugal, from the family of the 6th Counts of Oropesa not to be confounded with those älvarez de Toledo being Dukes of Alba or those being Marquisses of Villafranca del Bierzo, for instance:
He was thus, from his second marriage, the father of Fernando Fajardo y Alvarez de Toledo, a.k.a. Fernando Joaquín Fajardo de Zúñiga Requesens, 6th Marquis de los Vélez, ( before 1642 - Zaragoza, Spain, 1693), 6th Marqués de los Vélez since 1647, Viceroy of Sardinia, 1673–1675, and Viceroy of Naples, 1675 - 1683.
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| Preceded by Girolamo Carraffa e Carrascciolo |
Viceroy of Aragon 1635–1638 |
Succeeded by Francesco Maria Carraffa e Carraffa |
| Preceded by Fernando de Andrade y Sotomayor, Archbishop of Burgos |
Viceroy of Navarre 1638–1640 |
Succeeded by Francesco Maria Carraffa e Carraffa |
| Preceded by Enrique de Aragón Folc de Cardona y Córdoba |
Viceroy of Catalonia 1640–1641 |
Succeeded by Pedro Antonio de Aragón |
| Preceded by Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera |
Viceroy of Sicily 1644–1646 |
Succeeded by Vicente de Guzmán |