García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba

García Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez Cossines († 1488 ) was 1st Duke of Alba ( Duque de Alba ).

Life

He was the son of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, and Mencia (or María ) Palomeque.

He received the hereditary title of duke in 1472 by Henry IV, King of Castile, who transformed the County of Alba de Tormes in a duchy. He was also the title Señor de Valdecorneja, Marqués de Coria and Conde de Salvatierra.

At the five-year War of Succession, the Castilian Queen Isabella I had to unsubscribe from 1474 to enforce their rights of succession against her niece Johanna ( Juana la Beltraneja ) and parts of the Castilian nobility, García Álvarez de Toledo took part on the side of Queen Isabella I.. As a reward he received in 1478 of Isabella the license, a ship with max. 45 tons expire on the west coast of Africa to Guinea to let, where gold and slaves lured. A Florentine merchant bought him in Seville from this permission to 100,000 maravedis.

His wife was María Enríquez, daughter of Fadrique Enríquez Mendoza, Admiral of Castile. Their children were:

• Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, second Duke of Alba
• Mencia de Toledo, Beltrán de la Cueva ∞ (* Úbeda 1443 † November 2, 1492 ), 1st Duke of Alburquerque, 1st Earl of Ledesma ( House La Cueva )
• Teresa Toledo ( † 1487 ) ∞ 1482 Pedro Manrique de Lara y Vivero († October 29, 1515 ), 2nd Earl of Osorno ( 1482 ), Señor del Ducado de Galisteo, son of Gabriel Manrique de Lara y Téllez de Castilla (House Manrique de Lara )
• Francisca Alvarez de Toledo, called Francisca de Toledo y Enríquez, ∞ 1476 Francisco Fernández de la Cueva (* 1463, † 1526), 2nd Duke of Alburquerque, son of Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque (House La Cueva ), and his first wife Mencia de Mendoza y Luna († 1476 ),
• María Álvarez (or Enríquez ) de Toledo, ∞ 1491 Gómez Suárez de Figueroa († August 24, 1505 ), 2nd Earl of Feria, son of Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa
• Gutierre de Toledo ( Segovia † August 20, 1506 ).
• García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Lord of La Horcajada, ∞ Francisca de Solís, daughter of Gutierre de Cáceres y Solís, 1st Earl of Coria, and Francisca de Toledo ( out of the house of the Counts of Oropesa )
• Pedro de Toledo, 1st Lord of Mancera, Salmora, Navarro, San Miguel, Montalbo and Gallegos ( Diocese of Ávila), ∞ Leonor de Ayala, daughter of Pedro López de Ayala, Comendador de Mora, and María Davalos.
• Fernando Álvarez de Toledo ( † 1532 ), Lord of Villorias, Gran Halconero; ∞ María de Rojas - laws of Don Diego Colón, the daughter María de Toledo the son of Christopher Columbus married in 1508.

See also: House Álvarez de Toledo

• Duke ( Alba )
• House Álvarez de Toledo
• Spaniard
• Born in the 15th century
• Died in 1488
• Man