Juan Téllez-Girón, 2nd Duke of Osuna,

Grandee of Spain Grandee (; es, Grande de España, ) is an official aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish nobility. Holders of this dignity enjoyed similar privileges to those of the peerage of France during the , though in neither country did they ha ...

, (in full, es,

Don Don, don or DON and variants may refer to: Places *County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON *Don (river), a river in European Russia *Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name *Don, Benin, a town in Benin *Don, Dang, a vill ...

Juan Téllez-Girón de Guzmán, primer marqués de Peñafiel, segundo duque de Osuna, décimo sexto conde de Ureña, Grande de España, señor de las villas de Tiedra, Briones, Gumiel de Izán, Cazalla de la Sierra, el Arahal, Olvera, Morón de la Frontera, Archidona y Otejícar, Notario mayor de Castilla, Camarero mayor del Rey), (20 Octubre 1559 – 25 November 1600), was a Spanish nobleman. Juan Téllez-Girón was the son of

Pedro Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...

and of Leonor Ana de Guzmán y Aragón (c.1540–23 November 1573), daughter of

Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

. In 1570, he married his cousin Ana María de Velasco, daughter of

Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, 4th Duke of Frías Inigo derives from the Castilian rendering (Íñigo) of the medieval Basque name Eneko. Ultimately, the name means "my little (love)". While mostly seen among the Iberian diaspora, it also gained a limited popularity in the United Kingdom. Ear ...

, with whom he had 5 children.

Sources

* *

External links

Genealogy of Juan Tellez-Girón, 2nd Duke of Osuna
1559 births 1600 deaths 102 101 106

Juan ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, ...

Grandees of Spain {{Spain-noble-stub