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


Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 14th Duke of Alba, GE was a Spanish aristocrat.

Biography

Born in Madrid, Spain, in 1794, Carlos 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 1802, the childless 13th Duchess of Alba died; as the duchess' third cousin once removed, Carlos became the 14th Duke of Alba, as well as Grandee of Spain on ten counts.
In 1819, he married the Italian noblewoman Rosalia Ventimiglia di Grammonte y Moncada. from the Ventimiglia, Princes of Grammonte, in Palermo.
They had three children :
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.
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

Jacobite titles

Sicilian titles

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.