Don Ambrogio Spínola Doria, marqués de los Balbases (1569-1630), was an Italian general in Spanish Habsburg service. * 1569: born in Genoa, the eldest son of Filippo Spinola, marquis of Sesto and Benafro, and his wife Polissena, daughter of the prince of Salerno. * 1602: marched overland to Flanders with the men he had raised at his own expense. * 1603: gven operational command of the Siege of Ostend. * 1604: Fall of Ostend. * 1605: appointed commander in chief of the Army of Flanders. * 1614: War of Jülich * 1624-25: Siege of Breda. * 1628: Visited Spain. * 1629: Returned to Italy * 1630: Died at the Siege of Casale