Name Maria Rosario | ||
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Spouse(s) Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba Noble family House of Hijar, House of Silva Father Alfonso de Silva, 16th Duke of Hijar Mother Maria del Rosario Gurtubay y Gonzalez de Castejon Died 11 January 1934(1934-01-11) (aged 33)
Madrid, Spain Buried Monastery of Inmaculada Concepcion (Loeches) | ||
Doña María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Duchess of Alba de Tormes, suo jure 9th Marquise of San Vicente del Barco, Grandee of Spain (Madrid, Spain; 4 April 1900 – 11 January 1934) was a Spanish aristocrat and socialite. Single heiress of all the titles of her father, Alfonso de Silva, 16th Duke of Híjar, and of the fortune of her mother, María del Rosario Gurtubay, the young Marquise was one of the beauties of her time.
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She married in London, on 7 October 1920, to Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, thus becoming the Duchess of Alba. She had one daughter, Cayetana, born in 1926.
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