García Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio
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Matteo Perez d'Aleccio
, showing Don García's relief force battling the retreating Ottomans.García Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, 4th Marquess of Villafranca del Bierzo (29 August 1514 – 31 May 1577), was a Spanish general and politician.
Biography
He was born at
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany
.
He started his military career under the command of
, Sfax, Calibria y Mebredia. After this he was named Capitain General of the Galleys of Naples.He was Capitain General of the expedition to Greece, and Capitán General del Mar, a title he received in 1544 after having fought
Viceroy of Catalonia between 1558 and 1564. He then became Colonel General of the Infantry of the Kingdom of Naples and finally, between 1564 and 1566, Viceroy of Sicily
.
As Viceroy of Sicily he accomplished his two greatest achievements: the conquest of
Siege of Malta (1565). For this he received from King Philip II of Spain the titles Duke of Fernandina and Prince of Montalbán on 24 December 1569. He died at Naples
in 1577.
Marriage and children
In 1552,[1] in Naples, the Duke married Donna Vittoria Colonna, the daughter of Don Ascanio Colonna, 2nd Duke of Paliano, and Giovanna d'Aragona and the niece of famed poet and diplomat Vittoria Colonna, with whom she shares a name. They had six children:
- Grandee of Spain;
- María de Toledo, married Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba;
- Juana de Toledo, married Bernardino Pimentel, 3rd Marquess of Távara;
- Leonor de Toledo, married her cousin Pietro de' Medici, Prince of Tuscany;
- Ana de Toledo, married Gómez Dávila, 3rd Marquess of Velada;
- Inés de Toledo, married Juan Pacheco, 2nd Marquess of Cerralbo.
He also had two illegitimate children:
- Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, Señor de Gaipuli;
- Delia de Toledo, a Carmelitenun.
Ancestry
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References
- ISBN 9781442692978.
