Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma

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Real Academia Española
In office
10 June 1740 – 27 March 1767
Preceded byJerónimo Pardo
Succeeded byIgnacio de Hermosilla [es]

Alonso Verdugo de Castilla (3 September 1706 in

Alcala la Real, province of Jaen – 27 March 1767 in Turin
, Italy) was a Spanish count, diplomat and poet.

Biography

He was the son of

Pedro I of Castile
(1334–1369).

He became the 3rd Count of Torrepalma in 1720, on the death of his father. He became a member of the

Maestranza de Caballeria of Granada aged 19, on 18 October 1725, and a Knight of the Order of Calatrava
in 1756, aged 50.

From 1740 to 1767, he was a member of the

Torino, Italy, then the capital of the Duchy of Savoy
.

He married in april 1753 María Francisca Dávila y Carrillo de Albornoz, granddaughter of the Duke of Montemar. They had no issue.[2]

References

  1. Real Academia Española
    (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  2. ^ Real Academia de la Historia

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