Pedro de Toledo Osorio y Colonna or Pedro Álvarez de Toledo Osorio, 5th Marquess of Villafranca del Bierzo, (

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, 6 September 1546 – 17 July 1627), Governor of the Duchy of Milan, 1616–1618, Prince of Montalbano, 2nd Duke of Fernandina was a Spanish-Italian nobleman and a

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Pedro de Toledo Osorio, 5th Marquis of Villafranca

Biography

He was the son of

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, and Vittoria Colonna di Paliano. His mother was the niece of

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. He was Commander in chief of an army in

, General of Cavalry of

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in 1621. His success in

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was awarded with the honorable

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title in 1623. In 1625 he participated in the successful Defense of Cadiz against the attacks from the Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Sir

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. The expulsion of the Spanish

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since 1610 increased the Ottoman naval attacks in the West Mediterranean, especially when young Ahmed I became Sultan. Pedro Alvarez set up an extensive defensive engineering program, with Italian engineers working in Italy, Spain and the Caribbean in America. On 7 June 1576 he married Elvira de Mendoza, daughter of Íñigo Lopez de Hurtado de Mendoza, III Marquess of Mondéjar, 4th count of

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, 1575–1579, a.k.a. Iñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza (1512–1580), and Maria de Mendoza. They had four children. * Doña Victoria de Toledo, married Don Luis Ponce de León, 6th Marquess of Zahara * Don

García de Toledo Osorio, 6th Marquess of Villafranca García de Toledo Osorio or García Álvarez de Toledo Osorio, 6th Marquess of Villafranca, (25 April 1579 in Naples – 21 January 1649 in Madrid), Prince of Montalbano, 3rd Duke of Fernandina was a Spanish-Italian nobleman, military and a ...

, deceased at

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, 1649 and

, notorious admiral fighting against the French and Moroccans. * Don

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* Doña María de Toledo, a nun {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvarez de Toledo, Pedro 1546 births 1627 deaths

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