Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, 9th Duke of Osuna,
Grandee of Spain[note 1] (8 August 1755 – 7 January 1807), was a Spanish nobleman and military commander during the
French Revolutionary Wars.
Biography
Family
His father, the 8th Duke, was
Pedro Zoilo Téllez Girón y de Guzmán (27 June 1728 – 1 April 1787) and his mother was María Vicenta de la Portería Pacheco Téllez-Girón (born 28 July 1735).
In 1772, he married
María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente. She was 15th Countess of Benavente, Grandee of Spain, 13th Duchess of Béjar, Duchess of Arcos, Duchess of Gandía and Duchess of Monteagudo, Princess of Esquilache and Marquise of Lombay, whose possessions and noble titles were absorbed thereto by the Osuna family.[citation needed]
In a famous
portrait, Goya portrays the Duke of Osuna without any medals in front of a dark background. The only indication of his military background is the
baton he holds. One of his children was
Joaquina Téllez-Girón, Marchioness of Santa Cruz, who was also portrayed by Goya. Another of the children from Goya's painting was
Pedro de Álcantara Téllez-Girón y Pimentel, (1786–1851), Principe de Anglona, Captain General of the Island of
Cuba from 10 January 1840 to 7 March 1841, and who was substituted by
Jerónimo Valdés y Sierra (1784–1855), Captain General of the Island of
Cuba from 7 March 1841 to 13 September 1843.[note 2]
^Name in full:
Spanish: Don Pedro de Alcántara María Cayetano Ciriaco Rafael Domingo Vicente Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, noveno duque de Osuna, décimo marqués de Peñafiel, conde de Fontanar, décimo tercér conde de Ureña, señor de la villa de Morón de la Frontera, Archidona, El Arahal, Olvera, Ortejicar, Cazalla de la Sierra, Tiedra, Gumiel de Izán y Briones, Grande de España de 1ra clase, Camarero mayor del Rey, Notario mayor de los Reinos de Castilla, teniente general de los Reales Ejércitos, coronel del Regimiento de Reales Guardias Españoles y su Director general, miembro del Supremo Consejo de la Guerra, embajador extraordinario en Viena, 24 de la Real academia (10.7.1787),
gentilhombre de cámara con ejercicio de Carlos III y de Carlos IV, caballero del Toisón de Oro (4.4.1794),
Gran Cruz de la Orden de Carlos III)
^Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón held a number of titles. In addition to being the 9th Duke of Osuna, he was also the 8th Marquis of Peñafiel, the 13th Count of Ureña, the 15th Count and 12th Duke of Benavente, Duke of Gandía, Duke of Arcos, Duke of Medina, Duke of Ríoseco, Duke of Béjar, Marquis of Lombay, and Grandee of Spain (from 1787), among others.
[1] He was elected in 1848 but never took the seat; [2] He was elected in 1932 but never took the seat; [3] He was elected in 1940 but never took the seat