Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna
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Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna (25 May 1625 – Madrid, 2 June 1694), 5th
Grandee of Spain
.
He lost the
Claude Lamoral, Prince of Ligne
.
Family ancestors background
He was the grandson of
Viceroy of Sicily
.
Don Gaspar marriages
In his first marriage in 1645 he married a cousin, Feliche de Sandoval Rojas y Enriquez de Cabrera, named as her mother Felice, deceased in
Duke of Lerma and 2nd Duke of Uceda, Duke of Cea. Her mother Felice was a member of the powerful and old Colonna family
. The children who survived, (5 out of 7), were all daughters who married within the pinnacle of the highest Spanish Nobility of the time.
He married again in 1672, aged 47, 19 years old Ana Antonia Francisca, (1653–1707), 4th Marchioness of Caracena. Her father was
Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. Her mother was Catalina Ponce de León, third daughter of Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos
.They had 2 sons and 2 daughters, including :
- Francisco Téllez-Girón, 6th Duke of Osuna (1678-1716), Ambassador and Plenipotentiary minister for the Treaty of Utrecht, (1713). Married in 1695, he got two daughters, so the title passed to his surviving brother:
- José María Téllez-Girón, 7th Duke of Osuna (1685-1733), had issue.
References
- LINDE, Luis M. Don Pedro Girón, Duque de Osuna, la hegemonía española en Europa a comienzos del siglo XVII, Ed. Encuentro, Madrid, 2005. ISBN 84-7490-762-4. A study, mainly on finances and economy in European trade at the beginnings of the 17th century, through discussing the figure of Pedro Téllez-Girón y Velasco, 3rd Duke of Osuna, (1574–1624) .
Sources
- Hobbs, Nicolas (2007). "Grandes de España" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2008.
- Instituto de Salazar y Castro. Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles (in Spanish). periodic publication.
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