Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke of Osuna
Spanish duke
Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna (25 May 1625 – Madrid, 2 June 1694), 5th Marquess of Peñafiel, 9th Count of Ureña and other lesser titles, was a Spanish general and a Grandee of Spain.
He lost the Battle of Castelo Rodrigo in 1664, as part of the Portuguese Restoration War. He was Viceroy of Catalonia, 1667–1669, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, Italy, (1670–1674), when he was replaced by Claude Lamoral, Prince of Ligne.
He was also President of the Council of Aragon between 1692 and 1694.
Family ancestors background
He was the grandson of Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Viceroy of Sicily, Viceroy of Naples, and the son of Juan Tellez-Girón y Enriquez de Ribera, 4th Duke of Osuna, 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 Milan, Italy on 7 October 1671, who held her own inherited title of 4th Duchess of Uceda and was therefore, also a Grandee of Spain on her own rights. She was daughter of Francisco de Sandoval Rojas, 2nd 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.
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