García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba

García Álvarez Cossines de Toledo, I Duque de Alba

García Álvarez Cossines de Toledo y Enríquez († 1488 ) was 1st Duke of Alba (Duque de Alba).

Life

He was the son of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo , Count of Alba, and Mencía (or María) Palomeque.

He received the hereditary title of duke in 1472 from Henry IV , King of Castile , who converted the county of Alba de Tormes into a duchy. He also held the titles of Señor de Valdecorneja , Marqués de Coria and Conde de Salvatierra .

García Álvarez de Toledo took part on the side of Queen Isabella I in the five-year war of succession, which the Castilian Queen Isabella I had to fight from 1474 to assert her inheritance claims against her niece Johanna (Juana la Beltraneja) and parts of the Castilian high nobility. As a thank you, he received a license from Isabella in 1478 to build a ship with max. To let 45 tons run to the African west coast to Guinea , where gold and slaves lured. A Florentine merchant in Seville bought this permit from him for 100,000 maravedís .

His wife was María Enríquez, daughter of Fadrique Enríquez Mendoza, Admiral of Castile. Your children were:

• Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba
• Mencía de Toledo, ⚭ Beltrán de la Cueva (* Úbeda 1443, † November 2, 1492), 1st Duke of Alburquerque , 1st Count of Ledesma ( House of La Cueva )
• Teresa Toledo († 1487), ⚭ 1482 Pedro Manrique de Lara y Vivero († 29 October 1515), 2nd Count of Osorno (1482), Señor del Ducado de Galisteo, son of Gabriel Manrique de Lara y Téllez de Castilla ( house Manrique de Lara )
• Francisca Álvarez de Toledo, called Francisca de Toledo y Enríquez, ⚭ 1476 Francisco Fernández de la Cueva (* 1463, † 1526), ​​2nd Duke of Alburquerque , son of Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque ( La Cueva House ) , and his first wife Mencía de Mendoza y Luna († 1476),
• María Álvarez (or Enríquez) de Toledo, ⚭ 1491 Gómez Suárez de Figueroa († August 24, 1505), 2nd Count of Feria , son of Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa
• Gutierre de Toledo († Segovia August 20, 1506).
• García Álvarez de Toledo, 1st Lord of La Horcajada, ⚭ Francisca de Solís, daughter of Gutierre de Cáceres y Solís, 1st Count of Coria, and Francisca de Toledo (from the house of the Counts of Oropesa)
• Pedro de Toledo, 1st Lord of Mancera, Salmora, Navarros, San Miguel, Montalbo and Gallegos (Diocese of Avila), ⚭ Leonor de Ayala, daughter of Pedro López de Ayala, Comendador de Mora, and María Dávalos.
• Fernando Álvarez de Toledo († 1532), lord of Villorias, Gran Halconero; ⚭ María de Rojas - In-laws of Don Diego Colón , since the daughter María de Toledo married the son of Christopher Columbus in 1508.

See also: House Álvarez de Toledo