Career
She was the daughter of the 8th Duke of Benavente and already twice widowed. Her first husband Andrea Fabrizio Pigntelli d´Aragona, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, 5th Prince of Noia and 7th Duke of Monteleone was killed in battle in 1677. Her second was Jaime Francico Víctor Fernández de Híjar, 5th Duke of Híjar.
He was Mayordomo mayor to King Charles II and later Caballerizo mayor to King Philip V.
The duke also married for a second time to a Mariana Núñez Felipez de Guzmánew york Velez, the 3rd Duchess of Medina de las Torres, whose father, Ramiro, had been Viceroy of Naples.
