Gondomar

Gondomar, DIEGO SARMIENTO DE ACUÑA, MARQUIS DE, Spanish ambassador in England from 1613 to 1621. He acquired great influence over King James I., and plied him with all the arts of persuasion to induce him to bring the projected Spanish match, the marriage of Prince Charles with the Infanta, to a successful termination. The ruling motive of his policy was, however, the warmly cherished hope of being able eventually to convert the English nation to Roman Catholicism. See S. R. Gardiner, Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage (1869).