Valdecorneja
Castillo (Ávila). Solar
Alba House.
-* Alvaro Ibáñez. Son according to the chronicles of John Estébanez, died before 1260, and his wife Dona Maria Saviors. In 1269 he was the commandant over Toledo. It seems that a descendant of a notable house of Mozarabic Toledo devoted to trade and the actual loan, the Illán. He is credited married a cousin named Sancha Gutiérrez, daughter of Ben Abdelmelic Fernandez Gutierrez and Perez de Illán Solí.
-* Juan Alvarez, m. in 1289 by direct order of King Sancho IV to appease city of Toledo. Married Juana de Palomeque.
-* Garci Alvarez de Toledo (is at this time when you get into the habit of buying a "real" taking the name of a prominent ancestor). Ground that is alive in 1320 and died in 1370. Mayor of Toledo, favorable contracted marriage with Doña María Téllez de Meneses, daughter of Don Tello de Meneses Garcia, sheriff and mayor of the pastures. Father:
- Garci Alvarez de Toledo II, 1st Lord of Valdecorneja (1366), to renounce the maeztrazgo of Santiago, 1st Lord Horcajo Oropesa and later (which, together with the properties given by his wife, Monroy, Valverde and Talabani were nearly 4000 km2) by the grace of Henry II the Bastard of Castille, the first king of the dynasty Trastamara. Nobleman of Castile. Faithfully served Pedro the Cruel. He replaced Don Frederic, Harold Prince and Lord, in the Mastership of the Order of Santiago in 1359. On May 11, 1366 commits treason to his King and gives the city of Toledo to Henry II, the first king Trastamara, a city that previously had given him for safekeeping Pedri I. King Joined apparently with Estefanía Fernández de Monroy. Their three natural children, Fernán, Peter and Mencia. From them descended the house of the Counts of Oropesa. He died in 1370, defending the plaza of Ciudad Rodrigo. He bequeathed to his brother Ferdinand's lordship will Valdecorneja to establish on the same estate.
-Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Meneses, 2 Valdecorneja Lord in 1370. Constable notary and Toledo. Nicknamed "The Eye" for having lost an eye fighting the Aragonese Pedro rights defendendo I. With the change of dynasty, located knew, he won the favor of the new king Trastamara and was named Queen Juana Steward and Marshal Manuel Castilla. Married January 5, 1366 in Toledo, Leonor Ayala, Lady of Torrejón de Velasco (Madrid), daughter of Fernan Perez de Ayala, XII Lord of Ayala. Ferdinand died in September 1384 in the siege of Lisbon, a victim of the plague. Parents:
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-Garci Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Lord of Valdecorneja in 1384. Sheriff Mayor of Toledo and Mayor of Las Mestas in 1394. Married Constanza Sarmiento Ruiz de Guzman, daughter of Don Pedro Ruiz Sarmiento, Governor of Galicia and Lord Mayor of eager and Rivadavia. Don Garci died on February 1, 1430. Parents:
I Count of Alba de Tormes : Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo. IV Valdecorneja Lord and master of Salvatierra. Received the title of the town of Alba de Tormes given His Lordship by his uncle carnal Gutierrez Alvarez de Toledo, who had received from King John II on March 17, 1430, and had previously been the king of Navarre, who was stripped of it.
* Because of its special importance, it made an aside about the archbishop Gutierre "Alvarez" in Toledo. Born in that city in City street, the home of the Toledo, known as the solar well known of these, in 1376, also died in Toledo in 1446. Apparently, a doctorate in Canon Law and Civil Rights, and was imprisoned for being behind the death of the prior Juan Serrano. Appointed archdeacon of Guadalajara, was ambassador of King John II to the Pope Martin V. Bishop of Siguenza and right hand of King Henry III. Plasencia's apostolic administrator, Bishop of Palencia, May 15, 1439 he was appointed archbishop of Seville and in 1444 Archbishop of Toledo and primate of Spain. He was also chairman of the Chancery of Valladolid, Judge of the Court of John II and Chancellor of Queen Leonor. He was appointed Lord of Alba de Tormes on March 17, the 143rd, in gratitude by King John II of Castile (end of the excursus).
County The Manor passed by royal decree of December 25, 1439, made effective in 1440, by King Henry III, in memory of the help that was his father, Don Juan II in the siege of Medina Field, when he was harassed by the princes of Aragon, enemies of the favorite and Constable Álvaro de Luna, a supporter of the Álvarez de Toledo. Don Fernán Alvarez de Toledo was inaugurated II Lord of Alba de Tormes and I Count of Alba de Tormes on the same day. Merino was Mayor of Burgos, Head of Cazorla, Captain General of the Coast of Granada, Constable of Toledo and Ávila, and famous captain for his many victories. Roa was confined from 1446 to 1454, with the arrival of the new King Henry IV. Married this Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo to Dona Mencia (Maria) de Carrillo, daughter of Don Pedro Carrillo de Toledo, chamberlain of Juan II, apparently on October 20 of 1420 in the town itself Alba de Tormes. Ferdinand died, I Conde de Alba de Tormes, in Cordoba on April 20, 1464. They had to:
* Because of its special importance, it made an aside about the archbishop Gutierre "Alvarez" in Toledo. Born in that city in City street, the home of the Toledo, known as the solar well known of these, in 1376, also died in Toledo in 1446. Apparently, a doctorate in Canon Law and Civil Rights, and was imprisoned for being behind the death of the prior Juan Serrano. Appointed archdeacon of Guadalajara, was ambassador of King John II to the Pope Martin V. Bishop of Siguenza and right hand of King Henry III. Plasencia's apostolic administrator, Bishop of Palencia, May 15, 1439 he was appointed archbishop of Seville and in 1444 Archbishop of Toledo and primate of Spain. He was also chairman of the Chancery of Valladolid, Judge of the Court of John II and Chancellor of Queen Leonor. He was appointed Lord of Alba de Tormes on March 17, the 143rd, in gratitude by King John II of Castile (end of the excursus).
County The Manor passed by royal decree of December 25, 1439, made effective in 1440, by King Henry III, in memory of the help that was his father, Don Juan II in the siege of Medina Field, when he was harassed by the princes of Aragon, enemies of the favorite and Constable Álvaro de Luna, a supporter of the Álvarez de Toledo. Don Fernán Alvarez de Toledo was inaugurated II Lord of Alba de Tormes and I Count of Alba de Tormes on the same day. Merino was Mayor of Burgos, Head of Cazorla, Captain General of the Coast of Granada, Constable of Toledo and Ávila, and famous captain for his many victories. Roa was confined from 1446 to 1454, with the arrival of the new King Henry IV. Married this Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo to Dona Mencia (Maria) de Carrillo, daughter of Don Pedro Carrillo de Toledo, chamberlain of Juan II, apparently on October 20 of 1420 in the town itself Alba de Tormes. Ferdinand died, I Conde de Alba de Tormes, in Cordoba on April 20, 1464. They had to:
Duke of Alba de Tormes . In 1472, the then King of Castile, Henry IV the Impotent, the county raised to a duchy in the person of Garcia Álvarez de Toledo, I being the Duke of Alba and Lord of Valdecorneja. Married Don Garcia Álvarez de Toledo and Palomeque Dona Maria Enriquez de Quiñones and Cossin, sister of Juana Enríquez y Fernandez de Cordova, mother of Ferdinand II of Aragon, daughter of Frederic Mendoza Enriquez, Admiral of Castile. He died in 1488. They had to:
II Duke of Alba de Tormes . Frederic Alvarez de Toledo and Enriquez de Quiñones (1460-1531), II Duke of Alba from 1488, was also Marquis of Coria, Count of Salvatierra and Piedrahita and Lord of Valdecorneja. Led the troops of King Ferdinand to conquer the kingdom of Navarre. In return he was appointed captain general of Andalusia and the Duke of Huéscar (1513), title and possessions joined the House of Alba. He was a member of the Council of State Carlos I of Spain, whom he accompanied to Germany, Flanders and Italy, which also in 1520 granted the greatness of Spain and awarded him the Golden Fleece, the highest distinction of the Real Face of Burgundy. Married Isabel de Zúñiga (1470 - + after 1520), daughter of the first Duke of Béjar, with the eldest son of Garcia Álvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, who premurió in the African campaign of 1512, from the Duchy of Alba directly to the eldest son of this, Don Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, who married Dona Beatriz Pimentel y Pacheco, sister of the 2 º Duque de Benavente.
III Duque de Alba de Tormes . Fernando Alvarez de Toledo and Pimentel, better known as the Grand Duke of Alba. Born in Piedrahita, Ávila province, on October 29, 1507. He was the son of Garcia Álvarez de Toledo and Beatriz Pimentel. Considered one of the best generals in the history of Spain and the XVI century. Winner of the German Protestant League Esmalcalda, Captain General of Italy, Governor of Milan, Viceroy of Naples, Governor of Flanders. Banished and exiled to the English population in 1579 by Uceda consent to marriage is not authorized by King Philip II of his son Frederic with Dona Maria de Toledo, daughter of the Marquis de Villafranca Don Garcia Álvarez de Toledo, and therefore your premium husband. Conqueror Portugal and Constable of the kingdom in 1580. He died in Lisbon on December 11, 1582. In 1527 married his cousin Maria Enríquez, daughter of Diego Enríquez de Guzmán, Count III of Alba de Liste. They had to:
IV Duke of Alba de Tormes. Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo and Enriquez. (1537 - Lisbon, December 11, 1583). Huéscar Duke, Marquis of Coria and supreme commander of the Order of Calatrava. Childless. He was succeeded by his nephew
V Duque de Alba de Tormes. Antonio Álvarez de Toledo y Beaumont. Born in Lerin, Kingdom of Navarre, in November 1568. Becomes Duke of Alba in 1585 to death without direct heirs of his uncle, Frederic. He was the son of Diego Alvarez de Toledo and Enriquez, younger brother of the fourth Duke of Alba, and Dona Brianda Beamont, in turn daughter of Louis V de Beaumont, and Dona Aldonza de Cardona, daughter of Don Fernando Folch de Cardona, II Duke of Cardona, Great Constable and Admiral of Aragon, and Francisca Manrique de Lara, de la Casa Ducal de Nájera. Don Antonio Alvarez de Toledo y Beaumont, contrary to the provisions of their parents marriage was VI VI Count of Lerin and Constable of Navarre by inheritance from his maternal family. As Duke of Alba was a well-placed individual in the receiving court in 1599 by a newly crowned Philip the Golden Fleece, and appointed in 1622 by Philip IV Viceroy of Naples. It was a notable patron of writers such as Lope de Vega y Carpio or Felix of Wits, but heavy debts were accumulated. He died in 1639. Married to Dona Mencia de Mendoza, daughter of Don Iñigo López de Mendoza, V Duke of Infantry and a man very close to King-Emperor Felipe II.
VI Duke of Alba de Tormes. Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Mendoza. Born in 1595. He married his first wife to Dona Antonia Enriquez de Ribera, V Marchioness of Villanueva del Río. He was Constable and Chancellor of the kingdom of Navarre, Castile, Viceroy Old butler of Queen Mariana of Austria. He was succeeded by his son
VII Duke of Alba de Tormes. Antonio Alvarez de Toledo and Enriquez de Ribera. Constable of Navarre. Born in 1615. For rights received from his deceased mother, received the noble dignities County County Osorno (with Grandee of Spain) and the Duchy of Galisteo. Don married his first wife to Dona Mariana de Velasco y Aragon, daughter of Don Bernardino Fernández de Velasco y Tovar, V Duke of Frias, and his second wife, Dona Juana Fernandez de Cordoba and Aragon. Subsequently remarried in 1656 to Dona Guiomar de Silva and Mendoza Corella, House the Marquis of Santillana. Antonio died on May 16, 1690.
VIII Duke of Alba de Tormes. Don Antonio Alvarez de Toledo y Velasco. Dona married Constance de Guzmán Dávila and Manrique de Zuniga, daughter of Don Manuel Luis de Guzmán, Marquis of Villamanrique IV, and Dona Ana Dávila Osorio, marchioness of Astorga IX.
IX Duke of Alba de Tormes. Don Antonio Martín Álvarez de Toledo y Guzmán. X Constable of Navarre. Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain in France. Born in 1669. Married Isabel Ponce de Leon and Lancaster, daughter of Don Manuel Ponce de Leon, Duque de Arcos VI. They had three children, Luis, Nicholas and Bernardino, but the three rush the father, so that the House of Alba went to his uncle carnal son of the second marriage of his paternal grandfather the Duke of Alba VII Dona Guiomar de Silva y Mendoza Corella. Don Antonio Martín Álvarez de Toledo y Guzmán died in 1711. X
Duque de Alba de Tormes. Francisco Álvarez de Toledo y Silva. Born in 1662. Knight of the Order of Calatrava and the Chancellor of the Indies. XII Constable of Navarre. Married Catalina Mendez de Haro y Guzmán (b. 1672, m. 1733), IV Countess-Duchess of Olivares Morante Countess IV, VIII Countess of Monterrey, Marquise de Eliche VI, III and VI Marchioness of Tarazona Fuentes Countess of Valdespero. The tenth Duke of Alba, Francisco, died in 1739.
XI Duque de Alba. Dona Maria Teresa Alvarez de Toledo and Haro. XIII Constable of Navarre. With this lady, just the Varoni Álvarez de Toledo of the Ducal House of Alba de Tormes. XIII condestablesa of Navarra. Born in 1691 and died in 1755. With it are given by county houses canceled Salvatierra de Tormes and Piedrahita. Married Don Manuel José de Silva Mendoza and Harold, born in 1667 and died in 1723. Count of Galve X of Castile and Commander of the Order of Santiago. Had issue (Part II).
* The existence of these data are not reliable, but are extracted from the chronicles of the time. However, rigorous and serious historians take them as quite possibly true, and so I take them.
VI Duke of Alba de Tormes. Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Mendoza. Born in 1595. He married his first wife to Dona Antonia Enriquez de Ribera, V Marchioness of Villanueva del Río. He was Constable and Chancellor of the kingdom of Navarre, Castile, Viceroy Old butler of Queen Mariana of Austria. He was succeeded by his son
VII Duke of Alba de Tormes. Antonio Alvarez de Toledo and Enriquez de Ribera. Constable of Navarre. Born in 1615. For rights received from his deceased mother, received the noble dignities County County Osorno (with Grandee of Spain) and the Duchy of Galisteo. Don married his first wife to Dona Mariana de Velasco y Aragon, daughter of Don Bernardino Fernández de Velasco y Tovar, V Duke of Frias, and his second wife, Dona Juana Fernandez de Cordoba and Aragon. Subsequently remarried in 1656 to Dona Guiomar de Silva and Mendoza Corella, House the Marquis of Santillana. Antonio died on May 16, 1690.
VIII Duke of Alba de Tormes. Don Antonio Alvarez de Toledo y Velasco. Dona married Constance de Guzmán Dávila and Manrique de Zuniga, daughter of Don Manuel Luis de Guzmán, Marquis of Villamanrique IV, and Dona Ana Dávila Osorio, marchioness of Astorga IX.
IX Duke of Alba de Tormes. Don Antonio Martín Álvarez de Toledo y Guzmán. X Constable of Navarre. Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain in France. Born in 1669. Married Isabel Ponce de Leon and Lancaster, daughter of Don Manuel Ponce de Leon, Duque de Arcos VI. They had three children, Luis, Nicholas and Bernardino, but the three rush the father, so that the House of Alba went to his uncle carnal son of the second marriage of his paternal grandfather the Duke of Alba VII Dona Guiomar de Silva y Mendoza Corella. Don Antonio Martín Álvarez de Toledo y Guzmán died in 1711. X
Duque de Alba de Tormes. Francisco Álvarez de Toledo y Silva. Born in 1662. Knight of the Order of Calatrava and the Chancellor of the Indies. XII Constable of Navarre. Married Catalina Mendez de Haro y Guzmán (b. 1672, m. 1733), IV Countess-Duchess of Olivares Morante Countess IV, VIII Countess of Monterrey, Marquise de Eliche VI, III and VI Marchioness of Tarazona Fuentes Countess of Valdespero. The tenth Duke of Alba, Francisco, died in 1739.
XI Duque de Alba. Dona Maria Teresa Alvarez de Toledo and Haro. XIII Constable of Navarre. With this lady, just the Varoni Álvarez de Toledo of the Ducal House of Alba de Tormes. XIII condestablesa of Navarra. Born in 1691 and died in 1755. With it are given by county houses canceled Salvatierra de Tormes and Piedrahita. Married Don Manuel José de Silva Mendoza and Harold, born in 1667 and died in 1723. Count of Galve X of Castile and Commander of the Order of Santiago. Had issue (Part II).
* The existence of these data are not reliable, but are extracted from the chronicles of the time. However, rigorous and serious historians take them as quite possibly true, and so I take them.
