Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal y de la Cueva, 7th Duke of Veragua, (25 December 1651 – 9 September 1710) was a Spanish noble. He was a Knight of the

Order of the Golden Fleece The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece (, ) is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in 1430 in Brugge by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, Isabella of Portugal. T ...

since 1675,

Viceroy of Valencia This is a list of viceroys of the Kingdom of Valencia from 1520 to 1707. *1520 : Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1st Count of Melito *1523 : Germaine of Foix and Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach *1526 : Germaine of Foix and Ferdinand of Aragon, Duque ...

, 1679–1680,

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, 1696–1701, and

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, 1706–1708. He was born in

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, the eldest son of

Pedro Nuño Colón de Portugal, 6th Duke of Veragua Pedro Nuño Colón de Portugal y Castro, 6th Duke of Veragua, 6th Marquess of Jamaica, 6th Count of Gelves (Madrid, Spain, 13 December 1628 – December 8, 1673, Mexico City) was viceroy of New Spain from December 3, 1673, to December 8, 167 ...

and 5th Duke of la Vega, a descendant of the

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, and his first wife, Isabel Fernández de la Cueva y Enríquez de Cabrera, daughter of

Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 7th Duke of Alburquerque Francisco Fernández de la Cueva y de la Cueva, 7th Duke of Alburquerque (in full, ) (Cuéllar, 1575 – Madrid, 18 July 1637) was a Spanish nobleman, military and politician. He was the son of Don Beltrán III de la Cueva y Castilla, 6th Duke of ...

. Pedro Manuel married Teresa Marina de Ayala, 4th Marchioness de la Mota, in Madrid on 30 August 1674. He also Lord Admiral of the Spanish Fleet in Cartagena and while he was there founded the Socorro brotherhood which participate in the Semana Santa processions in Cartagena. Their eldest son, Pedro Manuel Nuño Colón de Portugal y Ayala, succeeded the dukedom in 1710. After his death in 1733, his sister Catalina Ventura became 9th Duchess of Veragua, and afterwards the dukedom passed down through her marriage with

James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick James Francis (Jacobo Francisco) Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick, 2nd Duke of Liria and Xérica (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, 21 October 1696 – Naples, Italy, 2 June 1738) was a Jacobitism, Jacobite and Spanish nobleman. He inheri ...

and their descendants.

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