Name Alonso 3rd | Died March 27, 1767 | |
Alonso Verdugo de Castilla (Alcala la Real, province of Jaen, 3 September 1706 - Torino, Italy, 27 March 1767) was a Spanish count.
He became the 3rd Count of Torrepalma after around 1721, on the death of his father the Pedro Verdugo, 2nd Count of Torrepalma, from Seville, a Knight of the Order of Alcantara since 1668, who had married in Seville on 6 January 1685 Isabel de Castilla y Lasso de Castilla, baptized in Granada on the 20 July 1672 - Granada, 1737).
His mother was one of the daughters of Sancho de Castilla y Lasso de Castilla, 9th Senor de Gor, province of Granada, senor de Alboloduy, province of Almeria, and Herrera de Valdecanas, province of Palencia, an illegitimate descent of King Pedro I of Castile, (assassinated by his bastard brother Enrique, afterwards King Enrique II of Castile in Montiel in March 1369).
He became a member of the Maestranza de Caballeria of Granada aged 19, on 18 October 1725, becoming a Knight of the Order of Calatrava in 1756, aged 50.
From 1740 to 1767, he was a member of the Real Academia Espanola de la Lengua, and the Real Academia de la Historia, a plenipotentiary minister for Spain in Vienna from 1755 to 1760 and from 1760 to 1767 in Torino, Italy, then the capital of the Duchy of Savoy.
He was the first husband (without issue) of the 3rd Duchess of Montemar, Maria Francisca Davila y Carrillo de Albornoz, (??? - Calatayud, province of Zaragoza, 24 Enero 1808) and therefore, the 4th Count was then his nephew Alonso Diego Alvarez de Bohorques y Verdugo, (Granada, 1710 - granted a life Grandee of Spain on 19 November 1771 - ????).