Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Alba
Spanish aristocrat (1794–1835)
Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 14th Duke of Alba, GE (19 May 1794 – 7 October 1835) was a Spanish aristocrat.
Biography
Born in Madrid, Spain, in 1794, Carlos was a descendant of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick and through him, the exiled King James II of England & VII of Scotland. He was the second surviving son of the 5th Duke of Berwick and inherited that family's titles on his elder brother the 6th Duke's death in 1795. He was also a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece of Spain. In 1802, the childless 13th Duchess of Alba died; as the duchess' third cousin once removed, Carlos became the 14th Duke of Alba, as well as Grandee of Spain on ten counts.
In 1819, he married the Italian noblewoman Rosalia Ventimiglia di Grammonte y Moncada (Palermo, 1798–1868). from the Ventimiglia, Princes of Grammonte, in Palermo.
They had three children :
Jacopo Fitz-James Stuart y Ventimiglia, Palermo, Italy, (1821–1881) who married in 1844 with Maria Francisca Portocarrero Palafox y Kirkpatrick (1825–1860), eldest sister of Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), Spanish wife of Emperor Napoleon III of France (1808–1873).
Enrique Fitz-James Stuart y Ventimiglia, Count of Galve (5 October 1826 - 28 April 1882), since his father death in 1835. He married in 1871 Adelaida Ivanovna Basilevskaya.
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