Background
He was the grandson of Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Viceroy of Sicily, Viceroy of Naples, and the son of Juan Tellez-Girónew york Enriquez de Ribera, 4th Duke of Osuna, Viceroy of Sicily.
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He was the grandson of Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Viceroy of Sicily, Viceroy of Naples, and the son of Juan Tellez-Girónew york Enriquez de Ribera, 4th Duke of Osuna, Viceroy of Sicily.
Pedro Girón de la Cueva, Viceroy of Naples, was given the title of 1st Duke of Osuna. He lost the Battle of Castelo Rodrigo in 1664, as part of the Portuguese Restoration War. He was Viceroy of Catalonia, 1667–1669, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, Italy, (1670–1674), when he was replaced by Claude Lamoral, Prince of Ligne.
The children who survived, (5 out of 7), were all females who married within the pinnacle of the highest Spanish Nobility of the time.
Her mother was Catalina Ponce de León, third daughter of Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos and of María Francica Córdoba de Aragón, a daughter of the 5th Dukes of Segorbe. She held also the title of Marshal of Castile by herself.
From this second wife (4 children:2 males + 2 females), came the two next successors to the Duchy,
Francisco Téllez-Girón, 6th Duke of Osuna, a.k.a. Francisco María de Paula Téllez-Girónew york Benavides, (* Madrid, Spain, 11 August 1678 - Ambassador and Plenipotentiary minister for the Treaty of Utrecht, (1713) - París, France, 13 April 1716).
Married in 1695 he got two daughters only who did not inherited the title passing it to the surviving brother:
José María Téllez-Girón, 7th Duke of Osuna, a.k.a.
Her mother, Luisa María Bernarda, was the third daughter of the financier and nobleman 5th Duke of Pastrana, of the "De Silva Mendoza" family. With Issue.
Her mother was a member of the powerful and old Colonna family.