Carlo Filippo Antonio Spinola y Colonna, 4th Marquis of the Balbases (

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, 11 November 1665 – 30 July 1721), was

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from 1707 to 1713, during the

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. He was the eldest son of Paolo Spinola, 3rd Marquis of the Balbases, Governor of the Duchy of Milan from 1668 to 1670. After his father's death, he became 4th Duke of Sesto and 4th Marquis of the Balbases. His mother, Anna Colonna (1629–1686), was a daughter of

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, Prince of Paliano during the period 1639–1659. He married,

, 20 September 1682, Isabel María de la Cerda y Aragón (1667–1707), a daughter of

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(1637–1691), and Catalina de Aragón-Folch de Cardona, duchess of Cardona, Segorbe, and Lerma, having 2 sons and 7 daughters, as well as three bastards, one male, 2 females. The eldest son, 5th Duke of Sesto and 5th Marquis of the Balbases from 1721, was Ambrosio Gaetano Spinola y de la Cerda (Milan, Italy, 20 January 1696 – 1757), who became a Knight of the

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in 1737. After the

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, Spinola and his troops were ordered to leave Sicily and sail to Barcelona, where they played an important role in the

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. Spinola was the dedicatee of

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's ''12 Concerti a cinque'', Op. 5 (1707), and of

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's ''12 Concerti a cinque "Pensieri Adriarmonici"'', Op. 1 (1716–1719).

References

Grandes de España: Los Balbases
*George L. Williams (ed.): ''Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendents of the Popes''. McFarland Co Inc, USA 2004, *Giacomo Facco: "Pensieri Adriarmonici", op. 1 - IMSL

{{DEFAULTSORT:Spinola, Felipe Antonio 1665 births 1721 deaths People from Madrid Marquesses of the Balbases 17th-century Italian nobility Viceroys of Sicily