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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Miguel_Fitz-James_Stuart,_14th_Duke_of_Alba
Don Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 14th Duke of Alba, Grandee of Spain 1st Class (19 May 1794 – Sion, Switzerland, 7 October 1835) was a Spanish aristocrat
Biography
Born in Madrid Spain in 1794, he was a descendant of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick and through him, the exiled King James II of England. He was the second surviving son of the 5th Duke of Berwick and inherited that family's title's 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.
He became the 14th Duke of Alba in 1802 following the death of the childless 13th Duchess of Alba - he thus became a Grandee of Spain on 10 counts. He married, circa 1820, the Italian noblewoman Rosalía Ventimiglia di Grammonte y Moncada, (Palermo, Italy, 1798–1868).[2]
Rosalia Ventimiglia y Moncada, (1798 - 1868) was a Sicilian noblewoman from the "Ventimiglia di Grammonti" family branch who married in 1819 at Rome, Italy, Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Alba (1794 - 1835 at Sion, Switzerland, aged 41). Sculpture of Lorenzo Bartolini, (1777- 1850). Madrid. Fundación Casa de Alba. Palacio de Liria
They had 3 children :
Jacopo Fitz-James Stuart y Ventimiglia, Palermo, Italy, 1821–1881) who got 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, no issue.
This title of Count of Galve was awarded by the first time in 1557. This title came back not to Enrique´s nephew Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 15th Duke of Alba, deceased 1881, but to the 16th Duke of Alba since 1881, Jacobo´s oldest son Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba.
Luis Fernando FitzJames-Stuart y Ventimiglia.
Carlos Miguel died on 7 October 1835 at age 41 at Sion, Switzerland and was succeeded on that year by his eldest son.
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