Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Alba

The Most Excellent
Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart
14th Duke of Alba GE (more...)
The Most Excellent Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart 14th Duke of Alba GE (more...)
	Portrait by Antonio Calliano
Born	Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart y Silva; 19 May 1794; Madrid, Spain
Died	7 October 1835 (aged 41); Sion, Switzerland
Spouse	Rosalia Ventimiglia di Grammonte
Children	Jacobo Stuart-FitzJames, 8th Duke of Liria y Xerica; Enrique FitzJames-Stuart y Ventimiglia, Count of Galve; Luis Fernando FitzJames-Stuart y Ventimiglia
Parents	Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 5th Duque de Liria y Jérica (father); Maria Teresa Fernandez de Silva y de Palafóx (mother);
Family	House of Alba branch of Fitz-James Stuart

Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 14th Duke of Alba, GE (19 May 1794 – 7 October 1835) was a Spanish aristocrat.^[1]

Biography

Born in Madrid, Spain, in 1794, he was a descendant of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick and through him, the exiled King James II of England & VII of Scotland. He was the second surviving son of the 5th Duke of Berwick and inherited that family's titles on his elder brother the 6th Duke's death in 1795. He was also a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece of Spain.

In 1819, he married the Italian noblewoman Rosalia Ventimiglia di Grammonte y Moncada (Palermo, 1798–1868).^[2] from the Ventimiglia, Princes of Grammonte, in Palermo. He became the 14th Duke of Alba in 1802 following the death of the childless 13th Duchess of Alba — he thus became a Grandee of Spain on ten counts.

They had three children :

Jacopo Fitz-James Stuart y Ventimiglia, Palermo, Italy, (1821–1881) who married in 1844 with Maria Francisca Portocarrero Palafox y Kirkpatrick (1825–1860), eldest sister of Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), Spanish wife of Emperor Napoleon III of France (1808–1873).
Enrique Fitz-James Stuart y Ventimiglia, Count of Galve (5 October 1826 - 28 April 1882), since his father death in 1835. He married in 1871 Adelaida Ivanovna Basilevskaya.

This title of Count of Galve was awarded by the first time in 1557. This title came back not to Enrique's nephew Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 15th Duke of Alba, deceased 1881, but to the 16th Duke of Alba since 1881, Jacobo's oldest son Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba.

Luis Fernando FitzJames-Stuart y Ventimiglia.

Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart died aged 41 on 7 October 1835, in Sion, Switzerland, and was succeeded as Duke of Alba on that year by his eldest son.

Titles

14th Duke of Alba, Grandee of Spain 1st Class
7th Duke of Liria and Jérica, Grandee of Spain 1st Class
10th Count-Duke of Olivares
12th Duke of Huéscar
7th Duke of Montoro
13th Marquess of Villanueva del Río
12th Marquess of Carpio
10th Marquess of Eliche
14th Count of Gelves

Jacobite titles

Sicilian titles

17th Count of Modica

Ancestry

Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart was a direct descendant of the King James II of England through his illegitimate son James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick by his mistress Arabella Churchill.

Ancestors of Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Alba

8. James Fitz-James Stuart, 3rd Duke of Berwick

4. Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 4th Duke of Berwick

9. Maria Teresa de Silva

2. Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 5th Duke of Berwick

10. Prince Gustav Adolf of Stolberg-Gedern

5. Princess Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern

11. Princess Elisabeth Philippine of Hornes

1. Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Alba

12. Joaquin Diego Fernández de Hijar Silva, 8th Duke of Hijar

6. Pedro Fernández de Hijar Silva, 9th Duke of Hijar,

13. Maria Engracia Abarca de Bolea

3. Maria Teresa Fernandez de Hijar Silva

14. Joaquin Antonio de Palafox, 6th Marquis of Arizza

7. Rafaela de Palafox

15. Princess Marie Anne Charlotte de Croÿ

References

^ Cokayne, G.E.; Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.. 13 volumes in 14. 1910-1959. Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000.
^ "Person Page 8724". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011.

Spanish nobility
Preceded by María Cayetana de Silva	Duke of Alba 1802 – 1835	Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart
Peerage of England
Preceded by Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart	Duke of Berwick 1802 – 1835	Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart
Italian nobility
Preceded by María Cayetana de Silva	Count of Modica 1802 – 1835	Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart

[1] Cokayne, G.E.; Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.. 13 volumes in 14. 1910-1959. Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000.

[2] "Person Page 8724". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011.

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