Alonso Manrique de Lara y Silva (

Galisteo, Cáceres Galisteo is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 2001 inhabitants. Alagón del Río, a town founded in the 1950s by the Instituto Naciona ...

, 11 January 1672 – Madrid, 27 March 1737), I Duke of Arco was an aristocrat who served the Spanish Royal House.

Biography

He was the second son of Pedro Manrique de Lara, Lord of Arquillo, and of Antonia de Silva of a noble family from Toledo. He married on 31 July 1695 with Mariana Enríquez de Portugal, daughter of the Count of Montenuevo. In 1700, he entered the service of the new King Philip V of Spain, fighting alongside him in the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1715, the King granted him the title of

Duke of Arco Duke of Arco ( es, Duque del Arco) is a hereditary title in the Spanish nobility, peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1715 by Philip V of Spain, Philip V to Alonso Manrique de Lara, 4th Count of Montehermoso, ...

, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee of Spain. In 1717, he bought some land where he commissioned the construction of his Quinta del Duque del Arco. The Monarch made him his main favorite and private companion, naming Alonso in 1721 his Caballerizo mayor. He will remain in this position when Philip V gave up to throne to his son Louis I of Spain, and also when Philip V became King again after Louis I had died. In 1724, he was named a Knight of the

Order of the Golden Fleece The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece ( es, Insigne Orden del Toisón de Oro, german: Orden vom Goldenen Vlies) is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in 1430, to celebrate his marriage ...

and in 1729 he would be named a Knight of the French Order of the Holy Spirit. He died without an heir and was succeeded as Duke of Arco by his nephew Francisco de Asís Lasso de la Vega y Manrique.

Sources

Real Academia de la Historia
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