Hoose o Alba

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Hoose o Alba de Tormes
Coat of Arms of the Duke of Alba (Common).svg
KintraSpain
Parent hoose
Titles
Foondit15t century
FoonderGutierre Álvarez de Toledo
Current heidCarlos Fitz-James Stuart y Martínez de Irujo

The Hoose o Alba de Tormes better kent as the Hoose o Alba is a kenspeckle Spaingie lairdlie faimlie that descendit frae 12t-century nobility o post-vinkish Toledo. Their claim tae Alba de Tormes dates frae 1429, whan Gutierre Álvarez de Toledo becam Laird o Alba de Tormes. The head o the hoose is Carlos Fitz-James Stuart y Martínez de Irujo.

In 1472, García Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Coont o Alba de Tormes, wis upheezed tae the teetle o Duke o Alba de Tormes bi Keeng Henry IV o Castile. In 1492, the seicont Duke o Alba de Tormes signed Granada ceety's capitulation. The faimlie ains the Pailace o Liria in Madrid.

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