Alessandro Farnese (1635–1689)

Alessandro Farnese (10 January 1635 – 18 February 1689) was an Italian military leader, who was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1678 until 1682. His title was Prince of Parma. His elder brother Ranuccio II was the sixth Duke of Parma and Piacenza. The second son of Odoardo Farnese, fifth Duke of Parma, and Margherita de' Medici and became governor of the Southern Netherlands after the Franco-Dutch War.

Children
By his mistress Maria de Lao y Carillo had the following children:
 * 1) Alessandro Odoardo (Badajoz, 12 April 1663 – 21 May 1666)
 * 2) Alessandro Maria (Badajoz, 30 October 1664 – 28 September 1726), Colonel in Spanish army
 * 3) Margherita (Badajoz, 5 June 1665 – November 1718), nun in Parma
 * 4) Isabella (Badajoz, 19 September 1666 – 27 December 1741), nun in Parma