Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, 9th Duke of Osuna,

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Biography

Family

His father, the 8th Duke, was Pedro Zoilo Téllez Girón y de Guzmán (27 June 1728 – 1 April 1787) and his mother was María Vicenta de la Portería Pacheco Téllez-Girón (born 28 July 1735). In 1772, he married María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente. She was 15th Countess of Benavente, Grandee of Spain, 13th Duchess of Béjar, Duchess of Arcos, Duchess of Gandía and Duchess of Monteagudo, Princess of Esquilache and Marquise of Lombay, whose possessions and noble titles were absorbed thereto by the Osuna family.

Military career

Téllez-Girón held important commands during the

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which began on 7 March 1793 and ended with the

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on 22 July 1795. As a

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, he commanded a column under Captain General

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in the Battle of Mas Deu in the eastern Pyrenees on 19 May 1793. Soon after the battle, he transferred out of Ricardos' Army of Catalonia.Prats, ''Mas Deu'' He later fought in the western Pyrenees. In the fall of 1794, he was placed in charge of the defense of

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. The Army of the western Pyrenees under French General

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defeated his badly outnumbered troops in the Battle of Orbaitzeta in October 1794, though he was able to keep the French from capturing the city of

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Portraits

In a famous

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, Goya portrays the Duke of Osuna without any medals in front of a dark background. The only indication of his military background is the

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he holds. One of his children was Joaquina Téllez-Girón, Marchioness of Santa Cruz, who was also portrayed by Goya. Another of the children from Goya's painting was Pedro de Álcantara Téllez-Girón y Pimentel, (1786–1851), Principe de Anglona, Captain General of the Island of

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from 10 January 1840 to 7 March 1841, and who was substituted by Jerónimo Valdés y Sierra (1784–1855), Captain General of the Island of

from 7 March 1841 to 13 September 1843.Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón held a number of titles. In addition to being the 9th Duke of Osuna, he was also the 8th Marquis of Peñafiel, the 13th Count of Ureña, the 15th Count and 12th Duke of Benavente, Duke of Gandía, Duke of Arcos, Duke of Medina, Duke of Ríoseco, Duke of Béjar, Marquis of Lombay, and Grandee of Spain (from 1787), among others.

Images by Francisco Goya

Image:Pedro Téllez Girón, IX duque de Osuna por Francisco Goya.jpg, ''The 9th Duke of Osuna'' (1785) Image:The Duke of Osuna by Goya.jpg, ''The 9th Duke of Osuna'' (1785) Image:Duchess Countess of Benavente by Goya.jpg, ''The Duchess of Osuna'' (1785) Image:Los duques de Osuna y sus hijos.jpg, '' The Duke and Duchess of Osuna and their Children'' (1788) Image:Retrato de la Marquesa de Santa Cruz.jpg, ''The Marchioness of Santa Cruz'' (1805) Image:Duchess of Abrantes by Goya.jpg, ''The Duchess of Abrantes'' (1816) Image:10th Duke of Osuna by Goya.jpg, ''The 10th Duke of Osuna'' (1816)

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External links

''Bataille du Mas Deu le 17-18 Mai 1793''
prats.fr; accessed 18 February 2015.
Pedro de Alcantara Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, 9. duque de Osuna
geneall.net; accessed 18 February 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Osuna, Pedro Tellez-Giron, 9th Duke of 1755 births 1807 deaths Military personnel from Madrid

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