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List of Spanish Viceroys of Naples

Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, a Spanish Viceroy of Naples

This is a list of viceroys of the Kingdom of Naples. Sometimes the King of Naples if he resided outside of the Kingdom and ruled directly from another kingdom, would send a viceroy to fill the post. Some of the most noted viceroys of Naples were especially ruling the period of direct Spanish rule, to this day Pedro Álvarez de Toledo for example is recalled in folklore and even has a road named after him.

French direct rule, 1500–1504

1501–1504 Louis - also Louis XII, King of France
- Viceroy: Louis, Duke of Nemours 1501-1503
- Viceroy: Louis II, Marquis of Saluzzo 1503-1504

Spanish direct rule, 1516–1707

1504–1516 Ferdinand III - also Ferdinand II, King of Aragon
- Viceroy: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, el Gran Capitan, Duke of Sessa and Terranova (1503-1507)
- Viceroy: Juan de Aragón, Count of Ribagorza (1507-1509)
- Viceroy: Antonio de Guevara, Count of Potenza (1509-1509)
- Viceroy: Ramón de Cardona, Count of Albento (1509-1522)
1516–1554 Charles IV - also Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain
- Viceroy: Charles de Lannoy (1522-1523) (1st term)
- Lieutenant-General: Andrea Carafa, Count of Santa Severina (1523-1526)
- Viceroy: Charles de Lannoy (1526-1527) (2nd term)
- Viceroy: Hugo de Moncada (1527-1528)
- Viceroy: Philibert of Châlon, Prince of Orange (1528-1530)
- Viceroy: Pompeo Colonna, Cardinal (1530-1532)
- Viceroy: Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo (1532-1553)
- Lieutenant-General: Luis de Toledo (february-may 1553)
- Viceroy: Pedro Pacheco Ladrón de Guevara, Bishop of Jaén (1553-1556)
- Lieutenant-General: Bernardino de Mendoza (capitán general) (1555)
1554–1598 Philip I - also Philip II, King of Spain
- Viceroy: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba (1556-1558)
- Viceroy: Juan Manrique de Lara, (june-october 1558)
- Viceroy: Pedro Afán de Ribera, Duke of Alcalá (1559-1571)
- Viceroy: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Cardinal (1571-1575)
- Viceroy: Íñigo López de Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Mondéjar (1575-1579)
- Viceroy: Juan de Zúñiga y Requesens, Prince of Pietraperzia (1579-1582)
- Viceroy: Pedro Téllez-Girón y de la Cueva, Duke of Osuna (1582-1586)
- Viceroy: Juan de Zúñiga y Avellaneda, Count of Miranda del Castañar (1586-1595)
- Viceroy: Enrique de Guzmán, Count of Olivares (1595-1598)
1598–1621 Philip II - also Philip III, King of Spain
- Viceroy: Fernando Ruiz de Castro, Count of Lemos (1599-1601)
- Lieutenant-General: Francisco de Castro (1601-1603)
- Viceroy: Juan Alonso Pimentel de Herrera, Count of Benavente (1603-1610)
- Viceroy: Pedro Fernández de Castro, Count of Lemos (1610-1616)
- Viceroy: Pedro Téllez-Girón, Duke of Osuna (1616-1620)
- Lieutenant-General: Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Cardinal (june-december 1620)
- Lieutenant-General: Antonio Zapata, Cardinal (1620-1622)
1621–1665 Philip III - also Philip IV, King of Spain
- Viceroy: Antonio Álvarez de Toledo y Beaumont de Navarra, Duke of Alba (1622-1629)
- Viceroy: Fernando Afán de Ribera y Enríquez, Duke of Alcalá (1629-1631)
- Viceroy: Manuel de Acevedo y Zúñiga, Count of Monterrey (1631-1637)
- Viceroy: Ramiro Núñez de Guzmán, Duke of Medina de las Torres (1637-1644)
- Viceroy: Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera, Count of Modica, (1644-1646)
- Viceroy: Rodrigo Ponce de León, Duke of Arcos (1646-1648)
- Viceroy: Juan José de Austria (january-march 1648)
- Viceroy: Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, Count of Oñate and Villamediana (1648-1653)
- Viceroy: García de Haro-Sotomayor y Guzmán, Count of Castrillo (1654-1659)
- Viceroy: Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, Count of Peñaranda (1659-1664)
- Viceroy: Pascual de Aragón, Cardinal (1664-1666)
1665–1700 Charles V - also Charles II, King of Spain
- Viceroy: Pedro Antonio de Aragón (1666-1671)
- Lieutenant-General: Fadrique de Toledo y Osorio, Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo (1671-1672)
- Viceroy: Antonio Álvarez Osorio, Marquis of Astorga (1672-1675)
- Viceroy: Fernando Fajardo y Álvarez de Toledo, Marquis of Los Vélez (1675-1683)
- Viceroy: Gaspar Mendez de Haro, Marquis of Carpio (1683-1687)
- Viceroy: Francisco de Benavides, Count of Santisteban (1687-1696)
- Viceroy: Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón, Duke of Medinaceli (1696-1702)
1700–1713 Philip IV - also Philip V, King of Spain
- Viceroy: Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco Cabrera, Duke of Escalona (1702-1707).

The Spanish lost the kingdom to the Austrians during the War of the Spanish Succession

Austrian direct rule, 1714–1734

1714–1734 Charles VI - also Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- Viceroy: Georg Adam von Martinitz, Count (july-october1707)
- Viceroy: Wirich Philipp von Dhaun, Count (1707-1708) (1st term)
- Viceroy: Vincenzo Grimani, Cardinal (1708-1710)
- Viceroy: Carlo Borromeo Arese, Count of Arona (1710-1713)
- Viceroy: Wirich Philipp von Dhaun, Count (1713-1719) (2nd term)
- Viceroy: Johann Wenzel von Gallas, Count (july 1719)
- Viceroy: Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach, Count (1719-1721)
- Viceroy: Marcantonio Borghese, Prince of Sulmona (1721-1722)
- Viceroy: Michael Friedrich von Althann, Cardinal (1722-1728)
- Viceroy: Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Marquis of Almahara (july-december 1728)
- Viceroy: Aloys Thomas Raimund von Harrach, Count (1728-1733)
- Viceroy: Giulio Borromeo Visconti, Count of Pieve di Brebbia (1733-1734)