• 325820 The Palace of the Dukes of Alba (Spanish: Palacio de los duques de Alba) is a ducal palace in Piedrahita, province of Ávila, Spain. The palace was...
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    ISBN 978-84-94841-02-6. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dukes of Alba. House of Alba Foundation (in Spanish) Origins of the House of Alba (in Spanish)...
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    Duchess of Alba GE (28 March 1926 – 20 November 2014) was one of the most senior aristocrats in Spain, as well as the most titled aristocrat in the world...
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    The Liria Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Liria) is a neoclassical palace in Madrid, Spain. It is the Madrid residence of the Dukes of Alba. Built around...
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    Valdunquillo (category Municipalities in the Province of Valladolid)
    works of art. Palace of the Dukes of Alba: This small palace dates to at least the 17th century. It belonged to the Osorio family, whose family coat of arms...
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    some of his works. Like his contemporary composer Luis Misón, Herrando played with his violin in the evenings in Madrid's Palace of the Dukes of Alba. From...
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    daughter of the Dukes of Benavente, as a gift for her wedding to Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, future Duke of Alba. It was granted as a title for the male heirs...
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    Duke of Alba (29 October 1507 – 11 December 1582), known as the Grand Duke of Alba (Spanish: Gran Duque de Alba, Portuguese: Grão Duque de Alba) in Spain...
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    Coria, Cáceres (category Municipalities in the Province of Cáceres)
    (16th-18th centuries) Palaces of the Dukes of Alba (15th-16th centuries) Roman Catholic Diocese of Coria-Cáceres Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National...
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    Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 17th Duke of Alba, 10th Duke of Berwick, GE, LH, GCVO (17 October 1878 – 24 September 1953) was a Spanish peer, diplomat...
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    Irujo. Before 1953, the Spanish Dukes were also the Jacobite Dukes of Berwick. The line split due to the differences between the Spanish and Jacobite...
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    Buenavista Palace (the Army General Headquarters), which was designed by the architect Juan Pedro de Arnal in 1776 for the Dukes of Alba and the Palacio...
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  • of James IV onwards. It was confirmed as a hereditary office to the 9th Earl by Crown charter of novodamus in 1667, and has remained with the Dukes of...
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    18th Duchess of Alba. The Duchess works in public relations for Tous Designer House. Her official seat of residence is at Liria Palace in Madrid, but...
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  • and thereby to the headship of the House of Alba. He was born in Madrid and is the elder son of Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 19th Duke of Alba (born 2 October...
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    stayed with her family in the Liria Palace in Madrid and died there of tuberculosis on 11 January 1934, aged only 33. "DUKE OF ALBA A FATHER.; Daughter Born...
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    Belogradchik. The name was mentioned in the mid-10th century as a town founded in the Kingdom of Croatia. It was rendered in Latin as Alba Maritima, meaning...
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    Mediterranean coast) was one of the sources of the fortune of the Medina Sidonias House of Olivares House of Guzmán House of Medina Sidonia [1] BOE DE MEDINA...
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    The Royal Palace of Milan (Italian: Palazzo Reale di Milano) was the seat of government in the Italian city of Milan for many centuries. Today, it serves...
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    House of Alba, and the title is since then held in succession by the Dukes of Alba of its three cadet houses: first the House of Álvarez de Toledo (extinct...
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  • related to the Dukes of Alba in the 16th century, and on the verge of such family name disappearing since 1728 altogether from the Alba nobility registers...
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    Library of Belgium (KBR). The palace was built in a strategic location on one of the higher parts of Brussels, not far from the residence of the Dukes of Brabant...
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    anachronism, as the equivalent family at the time would have been called Battenberg. Duchess of Albany Duke of York Duke of York and Albany Alba Albany (disambiguation)...
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    the admiral of Castile. Catalina preferred to live in Pastrana with her husband rather than Guadalajara, the traditional seat of the Dukes of the Infantado...
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  • in 1445. The principal residence of the dukes was the Palace of Medina Sidonia, located in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz. This Palace houses the Archivo...
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    The Royal Palace of Naples (Italian: Palazzo Reale di Napoli) is a historic building located in Piazza del Plebiscito, in the historic center of Naples...
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    Duchess of Alba. It is in the collection of the House of Alba, in the Liria Palace, Madrid. It is one of a number of portraits Goya painted of the duchess...
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    became Viceroy of Naples, then a Spanish possession, until his death in 1687. Gaspar de Haro is buried in the pantheon of the Count-Dukes of San Lúcar and...
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    subjugated by the Franks under Theudebert I in 536. Thereafter, Alamannia was a nominal dukedom within Francia. Though ruled by their own dukes, it is not...
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    edition). After Eugenia's demise, all titles of the Montijo family came to the Fitz-Jameses (the Dukes of Alba and Berwick). On 18 July 1834, María Manuela...
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