Last name

Toledo

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Castilian last name, which has as its trunk the Count Per Illán, who lived in the first half of the 13th century and was from the House of the Emperors of Greece; his grandson, Esteban Illán, was the first to be named after T. for ripping this city from the Moors, handing it over to King Don Alfonso "the Noble". Don Juan II gave the Lordship of the town of Alba de Tormes to Don Gutierre de T., Archbishop of T., granting his nephew Don Hernán Álvarez de T., Lord of Valdecorneja, in 1439, the title of Count of Alba de Tormes, dignity elevated to Duchy by Don Enrique IV, in 1465, in favor of his son Don García Álvarez de T., Marqués de Coria. This lineage subsequently linked with the Dukes of Berwick and Liria, with the Counts of Lemos, with the Earls-Dukes of Olivares, Marquesses del Carpio, Counts of Monterrey, etc. According to the chronicle of Juan Núñez de la Peña, those with the surname T. descended from the Conquistadores, having left a branch on the island of El Hierro, which occupied the first positions of honor and the first jobs in the Militia. He founded this family in El Hierro, García de T., who married Doña Inés de Meneses. Their daughter, Doña Ana de T., testified in Valverde on August 14, 1582, before Fernández de Morales. She was the wife of Alonso de Mérida, a native of Castile and both in-laws of Don Nicolás Peraza de Ayala. García de T. was of illustrious Castilian lineage.

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