Luis Colón y Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1st Duke of Veragua, 1st Duke of la Vega, 1st Marquess of Jamaica (c. 1519/1520/1522 – 29 January 1572), was the first son of

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and María Álvarez de Toledo y Rojas, and grandson of

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. After his father's death, a compromise was reached in the

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in 1536 in which he was named 3rd Admiral of the Indies and renounced all other rights for a perpetual annuity of 10,000

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s, the island of

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as a fief, the Dukedom of Veragua estate of 25 square

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s in the province of

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on the

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, and the titles of 1st Duke of Veragua and 1st Marquess of Jamaica and 1st Duke of La Vega. He married firstly in 1546 to María de Mosquera y Pasamonte, daughter of Juan de Mosquera and his wife Ofrasina de Pasamonte, and had: * María Colón de Toledo y Mosquera, a nun in

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* Felipa Colón de Toledo, 2nd Duchess of Veragua He married secondly in Valladolid, on 19 October 1555, to Ana de Castro Osorio, daughter of Beatriz de Castro Osório, 6th Countess of

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and Sárria, and her second husband Alvaro Osorio, without issue.

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