Juan IV Coloma y Cardona, 1st Count of Elda, (circa 1522 –

Elda Elda (; , ) is a city and municipality located in the province of Alicante, Spain. , it has a total population of 55,618 inhabitants, ranking as the 7th most populous city in the province. Elda joins together with the town of Petrer to form a ...

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, 19 October 1586), 3rd Sieur of

, Governor of

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Castle, Count of

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, 1570-1577.

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He was born member of the

House of Coloma Coloma or de Coloma or Colomba is an old important Spanish Noble House. A branch belongs to the Flemish nobility, and became the Counts of Bornhem. Other branches became the Counts of Elda, Marquesses of Espinar, Marquesses of Noguera and Mar ...

, and was the son of Juan III Francisco Coloma, 3rd Lord of Alfajarin, 2nd Lord of Elda, Salinas and Petrer. His mother was dona Catherina de Cardona. Juan IV married three times, his third wife was doňa Isabela de Saa’, lady at the court of Portugal. By royal decree in 1577 he became the 1st Count of Elda. He resided in Elda Castle.

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Luis I Antonio Coloma, 2nd Count of Elda Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

: Knight of Santiago, Viceroy of Sardinia;
''Married to doña Juana Henriques de Mendoza.'' ** don

Juan V Coloma, 3rd Count of Elda ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philippi ...

: knight of Santiago, Lord of the Chamber of Felipe III. * don

Alfonso Coloma Alfonso Coloma y Jasarte de Melo, (1555 – 20 April 1606) was a Spanish prelate and bishop, member of the House of Coloma. Family He is a son of don Juan IV Coloma y Cardona, 1st Count of Elda and a brother of Carlos Coloma. Like others in h ...

: bishop of Barcelona. * don Francisco II Coloma: Knight of Malta. * don Diego Coloma: Canon at

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. * don Luis Coloma * doña Maria;
''married to don Pedro de Zúñiga''. * doña Isabella Coloma * doña Guyomara Coloma * doña Ana Coloma * doña Blanca Coloma * don Carlos II de Coloma, died 1637: knight of Santiago, created Marquess of Espinar, Governor of Cambrai;
''Married to Margharethe de Gavere, Noble canonesse of Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church, she died on 3 April 1645 in Brussels.'' * doña Juana Coloma * doña Luisa Coloma

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