Count of Osorno is a Spanish hereditary peerage which was granted on 31 August 1445 by
John II of Castile
John II of Castile ( es, link=no, Juan; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405.
Regency
John was the ...
to
Gabriel Fernández Manrique, first
Duke of Galisteo (1451), son of
Garci Fernandez Manrique, first
Count of Castañeda.
On the death in 1675 of Ana Apolonia Manrique de Lara, 8th countess, and in the absence of an heir, the title went to the
House of Alba
The House of Alba de Tormes ( es, Casa de Alba de Tormes), commonly known as the House of Alba, is a prominent Spanish noble family that descended from 12th-century nobility of post-conquest Toledo. The family's claim to Alba de Tormes dates fro ...
, who is currently still holding it.
The name of the peerage refers to the municipality of
Osorno la Mayor
Osorno la Mayor is a municipio in Palencia province, Castile and León, Spain. The Chilean city of Osorno and Osorno Province (Chile) are named after this place.
General information
*Covers 88.6 square kilometers and has roughly 1,500 resid ...
, in the
province of Palencia
Palencia is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by the provinces of León, Cantabria, Burgos, and Valladolid.
Overview
Of ...
,
Castile and León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
, Spain.
Counts of Osorno (1445)
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Gabriel Fernández Manrique, 1st Count of Osorno (died 1482)
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Pedro Fernández Manrique y Vivero, 2nd Count of Osorno (died 1515)
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García Fernández Manrique, 3rd Count of Osorno
García Fernández Manrique y Toledo, 3rd Count of Osornoin full, es, Don García Fernández Manrique y Toledo, tercer conde de Osorno, señor de Galisteo, presidente de la Orden de Santiago y del Consejo de las Indias) (c. 1483–1546) was a Sp ...
(died 1546)
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Pedro Fernández Manrique y Cabrera, 4th Count of Osorno (died 1569)
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García Fernández Manrique y Córdoba, 5th Count of Osorno (died 1587)
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Pedro Fernández Manrique y Enríquez, 6th Count of Osorno (died 1589)
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García Manrique y Zapata, 7th Count of Osorno (died 1635)
* Ana Apolonia Manrique de Lara, 8th Countess of Osorno (died 1675)
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Antonio Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Ribera, 9th Count of Osorno (died 1690)
: The list continued with the
Dukes of Alba de Tormes until it was ceded in 2015 to the 19th Duke of Alba's younger son, Carlos Fitz-James Stuart de Solís (b. 1991), 22nd Count of Osorno.
['']Boletín Oficial del Estado
The ''Boletín Oficial del Estado'' (''BOE''; " en, Official State Gazette, label=none", from 1661 to 1936 known as the ''Gaceta de Madrid'', " en, Madrid Gazette, label=none") is the official gazette of the Spain, Kingdom of Spain and may be p ...
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no. 282, p. 49353
25 November 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015
References
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Counts of Osorno
Counts of Spain
Grandees of Spain
Lists of counts
Lists of Spanish nobility