- John of Aragon, Duke of Peñafiel, later John II, King of Aragon 1416
- Domingo Ram y Lanaja, Bishop of Lérida 1416-1419
- Antonio de Cardona 1419-1421 (1st term)
- Giovanni de Podio 1421-1422
- Niccolò Speciale 1423-1424 (1st term)
- Peter, infans of Aragón 1424-1425
- Niccolò Speciale 1425-1432 (2nd term)
- Pedro Felice 1432-1433
- direct rule of King Alfonso V 1433-1435
- Ruggero Paruta 1435-1439
- Bernardo de Requesens 1439-1440 (1st term)
- Gilberto Centelles 1440-1441
- Raimundo Perellós 1441-1443
- Lope Ximénez de Urrea 1443-1459 (1st term)
- Juan de Moncayo 1459-1463
- Bernardo de Requesens 1463-1465 (2nd term)
- Lope Ximénez de Urrea 1465-1475 (2nd term)
- Guillermo Pujades 1475-1477
- Juan Ramón Folch de Cardona, Count of Pradés 1477-1479
- Gaspar de Espes 1479-1489
- Fernando de Acuña 1489-1495
- Juan de Lanuza 1495-1507
- Ramón de Cardona
thumb|250px|Tomb of Ramon de Cardona, by [[Giovanni da Nola]].Ramon Folch de Cardona was a Catalan general and politician, who served as the viceroy of Naples during the Italian Wars and commanded the Spanish forces in Italy during the War of the League of Cambrai.Cardon was born in Bellpuig, the...
, Count of Albento 1507-1509
- Hugo de Moncada
Hugo de Moncada . was a Spanish political and military leader of the late 15th and early 16th century. Also known as Ugo de Moncada, He served as General of Ocean and Land, and Viceroy of Naples and Sicily....
1509-1517
- Ettore Pignatelli, Duke of Monteleone 1517-1534
- Simone Ventimiglia, Marquis of Gerace
Gerace is a town in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy.Gerace is located several miles inland from Locri, yet the latter town and the Sea can be seen from Gerace's perch atop a 500 m vertical rock...
1534-1535 Interim
- Ferrante Gonzaga
Ferrante I Gonzaga was an Italian condottiero, a member of the House of Gonzaga and the first of the branch of the Gonzaga of Guastalla.-Biography:...
, Prince of Molfettathumb|250px|Church of Santa Maria Assunta.Molfetta is a city and comune of the province of Bari in the southern Italian region of Puglia, on the Adriatic coast, at sea-level...
1535-1546
- Ambrogio Santapace, Marquis of Licodia 1546-1547 Interim
- Juan de Vega
Juan de Vega was an ambassador of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. He first served as ambassador of Charles V at Rome, where he met Ignatius of Loyola. Esteeming him and Ignatius’ religious order, the Jesuits, when Vega was appointed Viceroy of Sicily he brought Jesuits with him...
, Lord of Grajal 1547-1557
- Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli
Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain, , was a Spanish nobleman.He was the son of Don Juan de la Cerda, 2nd Duke of Medinaceli, by second wife María de Silva. In 1552 Juan de la Cerda inherited the titles from his older half-brother Gastón de la Cerda y Portugal...
1557-1564
- García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca
García Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, 4th Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo, Grandee of Spain, , , was a Spanish military officer and politician.- Biography :...
1564-1566
- Carlos de Aragón, Duke of Terranova 1566-1568 Interim (1st term)
- Francesco Fernando d'Ávalos, Marquis of Pescara 1568-1571
- Giuseppe Francesco Landriano, Count of Landriano 1571 Interim
- Carlos de Aragón, Duque de Terranova 1571-1577 Interim (2nd term)
- Marcantonio Colonna
Marcantonio Colonna , Duke and Prince of Paliano, was an Italian general and admiral.-Biography:Colonna, born at Civita Lavinia, was a member of the famous noble family of the Lazio, then one of the most powerful fief holder of the Papal States and the Kingdom of Sicily .In 1553-1554, during the...
, Prince of Paliano 1577-1584
- Juan Alfonso Bisbal, Count of Briático 1584-1585 Interim
- Diego Enríquez de Guzmán, Count of Alba de Liste 1585-1592
- Enrique de Guzmán, Count of Olivares 1592-1595
- Giovanni Ventimiglia, Marquis of Gerace 1595-1598 Interim (1st term)
- Bernardino de Cárdenas y Portugal, Duke of Maqueda 1598-1601
- Jorge de Cárdenas, Marquis of Elche 1601-1602 Interim
- Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, Duke of Feria 1602-1606
- Giovanni Ventimiglia, Marquis of Gerace 1606-1607 Interim (2nd term)
- Juan Fernández Pacheco, Duke of Escalona 1607-1610
- Giovanni Doria, Cardinal 1610-1611 Interim (1st term)
- Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna
Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Grandee of Spain, , was Spanish viceroy of Sicily and Naples; and the subject of several celebrated poems by his friend, counselor and assistant Francisco de Quevedo....
1611-1616
- Francisco Ruiz de Castro 1616-1622
- Philibert of Savoy 1622-1624
- Giovanni Doria, Cardinal 1624-1626 (2nd term)
- Antonio Pimentel y Toledo, Marquis of Tavora 1626-1627
- Enrique Pimentel, Count of Villada 1627
- Francisco de la Cueva, Duke of Albuquerque 1627-1632
- Fernando Afán de Ribera y Enríquez, Duke of Alcalá 1632-1635
- Luis de Moncada, Duke of Montalto 1635-1639 Interim
- Francisco de Melo
Don Francisco de Melo , Portuguese marquis of Tor de Laguna, count of Assumar, was from 1641 to 1644 governor of the Southern Netherlands....
, Marquis of Villanueva 1639-1641
- Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera 1641-1644
- Pedro Fajardo Requesens y Zúñiga, Marquis of los Vélez 1644-1647
- Vicente de Guzmán, Marquis of Montealegre 1647 Interim
- Teodoro Trivulzio, Cardinal 1647-1649
- Juan José de Austria 1649-1651
- Rodrigo de Mendoza, Duke of Infantado 1651-1655
- Juan Téllez-Girón, Duke of Osuna 1655-1656
- Martín de Redín
Fra Martin de Redin was a Spanish military and politician.He became Grand Prior of the Order of Malta of Navarra in 1641, and Viceroy of Sicily in 1656....
1656-1657
- Pedro Rubeo 1657-1660 Interim
- Fernando de Ayala, Count of Ayala 1660-1663
- Francesco Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta 1663-1667
- Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque, Marquis of Cuéllar, Count of Ledesma and of Huelma was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain, from August 15,...
1667-1670
- Claude Lamoral, Prince of Ligne 1670-1674
- Francisco Bazán de Benavides 1674 Interim
- Fadrique de Toledo y Osorio, Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo 1674-1676
- Anielo de Guzmán, Marquis of Castel Rodrigo 1676 Interim
- Francisco de Gattinara, Marquis of San Martín 1676 Interim
- Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero
Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero y de Guzman , was a Spanish prelate, who was cardinal archbishop of Toledo...
, Cardinal 1677-1678 Interim
- Vincenzo Gonzaga 1678
- Francisco de Benavides, Count of Santisteban 1678-1687
- Juan Francisco Pacheco, Duke of Uceda 1687-1696
- Pietro Colonna, Duke of Veragua 1696-1701
- Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco
Don Juan Manuel María de la Aurora Fernández Pacheco Acuña Girón y Portocarrero, Grandee of Spain, 8th Duke of Escalona, 8th Marquis of Villena, 12th Count of San Esteban de Gormaz and 8th Count of Xiquena , was a Spanish aristocrat, politician and academician...
, Duke of Escalona 1701-1702
- Francesco Del Giudice, Cardinal 1702-1705 Interim
- Isidoro de la Cueva y Benavides, Marquis of Bedmar 1705-1707
- Carlo Antonio Spinola, Marquis of los Balbases 1707-1713
At the end of the
War of the Spanish SuccessionThe War of the Spanish Succession was fought among several European powers, principally the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal, and the Duchy of Savoy, against the Kingdoms of France and Spain and the Electorate of Bavaria, over a possible unification of the Kingdoms of...
, by the
Treaty of UtrechtThe Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, comprises a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713. The treaties among several European states, including France, Spain, Great Britain,...
, Sicily was ceded to the Duke of Savoy
- Annibale Maffei, Count 1714-1718
- Giovan Francesco di Bette, Marquis of Lede 1718-1719
- Niccolò Pignatelli, Duke of Monteleone 1719-1720
The Spanish invaded the kingdom in 1718 during the
War of the Quadruple AllianceThe War of the Quadruple Alliance was a result of the ambitions of King Philip V of Spain, his wife, Isabella Farnese, and his chief minister Giulio Alberoni to retake territories in Italy and to claim the French throne. It saw the defeat of Spain by an alliance of Britain, France, Austria, and...
.
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Aragonese direct rule 1409–1516
- John of Aragon, Duke of Peñafiel, later John II, King of Aragon 1416
- Domingo Ram y Lanaja, Bishop of Lérida 1416-1419
- Antonio de Cardona 1419-1421 (1st term)
- Giovanni de Podio 1421-1422
- Niccolò Speciale 1423-1424 (1st term)
- Peter, infans of Aragón 1424-1425
- Niccolò Speciale 1425-1432 (2nd term)
- Pedro Felice 1432-1433
- direct rule of King Alfonso V 1433-1435
- Ruggero Paruta 1435-1439
- Bernardo de Requesens 1439-1440 (1st term)
- Gilberto Centelles 1440-1441
- Raimundo Perellós 1441-1443
- Lope Ximénez de Urrea 1443-1459 (1st term)
- Juan de Moncayo 1459-1463
- Bernardo de Requesens 1463-1465 (2nd term)
- Lope Ximénez de Urrea 1465-1475 (2nd term)
- Guillermo Pujades 1475-1477
- Juan Ramón Folch de Cardona, Count of Pradés 1477-1479
- Gaspar de Espes 1479-1489
- Fernando de Acuña 1489-1495
- Juan de Lanuza 1495-1507
- Ramón de Cardona
thumb|250px|Tomb of Ramon de Cardona, by [[Giovanni da Nola]].Ramon Folch de Cardona was a Catalan general and politician, who served as the viceroy of Naples during the Italian Wars and commanded the Spanish forces in Italy during the War of the League of Cambrai.Cardon was born in Bellpuig, the...
, Count of Albento 1507-1509
- Hugo de Moncada
Hugo de Moncada . was a Spanish political and military leader of the late 15th and early 16th century. Also known as Ugo de Moncada, He served as General of Ocean and Land, and Viceroy of Naples and Sicily....
1509-1517
Spanish direct rule, 1516–1713
- Ettore Pignatelli, Duke of Monteleone 1517-1534
- Simone Ventimiglia, Marquis of Gerace
Gerace is a town in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy.Gerace is located several miles inland from Locri, yet the latter town and the Sea can be seen from Gerace's perch atop a 500 m vertical rock...
1534-1535 Interim
- Ferrante Gonzaga
Ferrante I Gonzaga was an Italian condottiero, a member of the House of Gonzaga and the first of the branch of the Gonzaga of Guastalla.-Biography:...
, Prince of Molfettathumb|250px|Church of Santa Maria Assunta.Molfetta is a city and comune of the province of Bari in the southern Italian region of Puglia, on the Adriatic coast, at sea-level...
1535-1546
- Ambrogio Santapace, Marquis of Licodia 1546-1547 Interim
- Juan de Vega
Juan de Vega was an ambassador of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. He first served as ambassador of Charles V at Rome, where he met Ignatius of Loyola. Esteeming him and Ignatius’ religious order, the Jesuits, when Vega was appointed Viceroy of Sicily he brought Jesuits with him...
, Lord of Grajal 1547-1557
- Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli
Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain, , was a Spanish nobleman.He was the son of Don Juan de la Cerda, 2nd Duke of Medinaceli, by second wife María de Silva. In 1552 Juan de la Cerda inherited the titles from his older half-brother Gastón de la Cerda y Portugal...
1557-1564
- García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca
García Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, 4th Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo, Grandee of Spain, , , was a Spanish military officer and politician.- Biography :...
1564-1566
- Carlos de Aragón, Duke of Terranova 1566-1568 Interim (1st term)
- Francesco Fernando d'Ávalos, Marquis of Pescara 1568-1571
- Giuseppe Francesco Landriano, Count of Landriano 1571 Interim
- Carlos de Aragón, Duque de Terranova 1571-1577 Interim (2nd term)
- Marcantonio Colonna
Marcantonio Colonna , Duke and Prince of Paliano, was an Italian general and admiral.-Biography:Colonna, born at Civita Lavinia, was a member of the famous noble family of the Lazio, then one of the most powerful fief holder of the Papal States and the Kingdom of Sicily .In 1553-1554, during the...
, Prince of Paliano 1577-1584
- Juan Alfonso Bisbal, Count of Briático 1584-1585 Interim
- Diego Enríquez de Guzmán, Count of Alba de Liste 1585-1592
- Enrique de Guzmán, Count of Olivares 1592-1595
- Giovanni Ventimiglia, Marquis of Gerace 1595-1598 Interim (1st term)
- Bernardino de Cárdenas y Portugal, Duke of Maqueda 1598-1601
- Jorge de Cárdenas, Marquis of Elche 1601-1602 Interim
- Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, Duke of Feria 1602-1606
- Giovanni Ventimiglia, Marquis of Gerace 1606-1607 Interim (2nd term)
- Juan Fernández Pacheco, Duke of Escalona 1607-1610
- Giovanni Doria, Cardinal 1610-1611 Interim (1st term)
- Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna
Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Grandee of Spain, , was Spanish viceroy of Sicily and Naples; and the subject of several celebrated poems by his friend, counselor and assistant Francisco de Quevedo....
1611-1616
- Francisco Ruiz de Castro 1616-1622
- Philibert of Savoy 1622-1624
- Giovanni Doria, Cardinal 1624-1626 (2nd term)
- Antonio Pimentel y Toledo, Marquis of Tavora 1626-1627
- Enrique Pimentel, Count of Villada 1627
- Francisco de la Cueva, Duke of Albuquerque 1627-1632
- Fernando Afán de Ribera y Enríquez, Duke of Alcalá 1632-1635
- Luis de Moncada, Duke of Montalto 1635-1639 Interim
- Francisco de Melo
Don Francisco de Melo , Portuguese marquis of Tor de Laguna, count of Assumar, was from 1641 to 1644 governor of the Southern Netherlands....
, Marquis of Villanueva 1639-1641
- Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera 1641-1644
- Pedro Fajardo Requesens y Zúñiga, Marquis of los Vélez 1644-1647
- Vicente de Guzmán, Marquis of Montealegre 1647 Interim
- Teodoro Trivulzio, Cardinal 1647-1649
- Juan José de Austria 1649-1651
- Rodrigo de Mendoza, Duke of Infantado 1651-1655
- Juan Téllez-Girón, Duke of Osuna 1655-1656
- Martín de Redín
Fra Martin de Redin was a Spanish military and politician.He became Grand Prior of the Order of Malta of Navarra in 1641, and Viceroy of Sicily in 1656....
1656-1657
- Pedro Rubeo 1657-1660 Interim
- Fernando de Ayala, Count of Ayala 1660-1663
- Francesco Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta 1663-1667
- Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque, Marquis of Cuéllar, Count of Ledesma and of Huelma was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain, from August 15,...
1667-1670
- Claude Lamoral, Prince of Ligne 1670-1674
- Francisco Bazán de Benavides 1674 Interim
- Fadrique de Toledo y Osorio, Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo 1674-1676
- Anielo de Guzmán, Marquis of Castel Rodrigo 1676 Interim
- Francisco de Gattinara, Marquis of San Martín 1676 Interim
- Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero
Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero y de Guzman , was a Spanish prelate, who was cardinal archbishop of Toledo...
, Cardinal 1677-1678 Interim
- Vincenzo Gonzaga 1678
- Francisco de Benavides, Count of Santisteban 1678-1687
- Juan Francisco Pacheco, Duke of Uceda 1687-1696
- Pietro Colonna, Duke of Veragua 1696-1701
- Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco
Don Juan Manuel María de la Aurora Fernández Pacheco Acuña Girón y Portocarrero, Grandee of Spain, 8th Duke of Escalona, 8th Marquis of Villena, 12th Count of San Esteban de Gormaz and 8th Count of Xiquena , was a Spanish aristocrat, politician and academician...
, Duke of Escalona 1701-1702
- Francesco Del Giudice, Cardinal 1702-1705 Interim
- Isidoro de la Cueva y Benavides, Marquis of Bedmar 1705-1707
- Carlo Antonio Spinola, Marquis of los Balbases 1707-1713
At the end of the
War of the Spanish SuccessionThe War of the Spanish Succession was fought among several European powers, principally the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal, and the Duchy of Savoy, against the Kingdoms of France and Spain and the Electorate of Bavaria, over a possible unification of the Kingdoms of...
, by the
Treaty of UtrechtThe Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, comprises a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713. The treaties among several European states, including France, Spain, Great Britain,...
, Sicily was ceded to the Duke of Savoy
House of Savoy, 1713–1720
- Annibale Maffei, Count 1714-1718
- Giovan Francesco di Bette, Marquis of Lede 1718-1719
- Niccolò Pignatelli, Duke of Monteleone 1719-1720
The Spanish invaded the kingdom in 1718 during the
War of the Quadruple AllianceThe War of the Quadruple Alliance was a result of the ambitions of King Philip V of Spain, his wife, Isabella Farnese, and his chief minister Giulio Alberoni to retake territories in Italy and to claim the French throne. It saw the defeat of Spain by an alliance of Britain, France, Austria, and...
. The Duke of Savoy ceded it to Austria in 1720 by the Treaty of The Hague.
Austrian direct rule, 1720–1734
- Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Marquis of Almahara 1722-1728
- Cristoforo Fernandez de Cordoba, Count of Sastago 1728-1734
Conquered by the Spanish during the
War of the Polish SuccessionThe War of the Polish Succession was a major European war sparked by a Polish civil war over the succession to Augustus II, King of Poland that widened as France and Spain, the two Bourbon powers, attempted to check the power of the Austrian Habsburgs in western Europe...
the kingdom was ceded together with Naples to a cadet son of the King of Spain.
Neapolitan direct rule, 1734–1816
- José Carrillo de Albornoz, 1st Duke of Montemar 1734-1737
- Bartolomeo Corsini, Prince of Gismano 1737-1747
- Eustache de Laviefuille, Duke of Laviefuille 1747-1755
- Giovanni Fogliani d'Aragona, Marquis of Pellegrino 1755-1775
- Marcantonio Colonna
Marcantonio Colonna , Duke and Prince of Paliano, was an Italian general and admiral.-Biography:Colonna, born at Civita Lavinia, was a member of the famous noble family of the Lazio, then one of the most powerful fief holder of the Papal States and the Kingdom of Sicily .In 1553-1554, during the...
, Prince of Stigliano 1775-1781
- Domenico Caracciolo, Marquis of Villamarino 1781-1786
- Francesco d'Aquino, Prince of Caramanico 1786-1795
- Francisco Lopez y Rojo, Archbishop of Palermo 1795-1798
- Tommaso Ferrao, Prince of Liuzzi 1798-1802
- Cardinal Domenico Pignatelli di Belmonte
.Domenico Pignatelli di Belmonte was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.HSH Prince Don Domenico Pignatelli di Belmonte was born on November 19, 1730 in Naples, Italy, the son of HSH Princess Donna Anna Francesca, Princess of Belmonte in her own right and 1st Princess of the Holy...
, Archbishop of Palermo 1802-1803
- Alessandro Filangieri, Prince of Cutò 1803-1806
- direct rule of King Ferdinand III 1806-1813
- Lieutenant-General: Francis, Duke of Calabria
Francis I was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830.-Biography:...
1813-1816
- Lieutenant-General: Niccolò Filangieri, Prince of Cutò 1816
In 1816 the
Kingdom of NaplesThe Kingdom of Naples is the modern day name for a polity which existed on the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Also known contemporaneously, and somewhat confusingly, as the Kingdom of Sicily, this kingdom was founded after the secession of the island of Sicily from the old Kingdom of...
and the Kingdom of Sicily were merged into the new
Kingdom of the Two SiciliesThe Kingdom of the Two Sicilies , commonly known as just the Two Sicilies, was the largest of the Italian states before unification. It lasted until 1861, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Italy...
.