• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Kingdom of Croatia. It was rendered in Latin as Alba Maritima, meaning "the white maritime (one)". Biograd na Moru is located 28 km south from the county...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Eugenia Martínez de Irujo, 12th Duchess of Montoro
    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    between the dukes of Alamannia and Burgundy. Burchard II, son of the late Burchard I and count in Raetia Curiensis, took the title of duke of Swabia,...
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    at the Siege of Perpignan in 1542 but did not see action as the Spanish army under Alba decisively defeated the besieging French forces under the Dauphin...
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