Count of Chinchón

However, Luis and his successors would lose the rights to the Spanish throne following a battle of succession amongst his brothers (Charles III of Spain was the victor).

The señorío included twenty villages and numerous places, with 1,200 vasallos, that had been dismembered shortly before the jurisdiction of the city of Segovia and incorporated to Corona.

On July of that year, the Marquises of Moya had given power to Martin de Alarcon, commander of the Membrilla, to take possession of these villas and jurisdiction on his behalf.

These lawsuits lasted for 112 years and during that time it was provided that the meadows, ejidos and watering places included in the donation to the marquises of Moya were reduced to the common pasture of the Segovians.

He fought against the comuneros with the degree of great captain, died in 1521 and was buried with his wife in the disappeared church of Our Lady of Grace of Chinchón, and later transferred to the new one of the Assumption.

In 1575 his son succeeded • III Count: Diego Fernández de Cabrera y Bobadilla (nc1535), III Count of Chinchón, treasurer of the Crown of Aragon and the Mint of Segovia, second lieutenant of this city and mayor of his Royal Alcazar, patron and general protector of the Franciscan Order, all in perpetuity.

It happened to his father in the general treasury of Aragon, perpetual office by which he was born member of the Supreme Council of that crown, with voice also of Italy.

It was the last one of his house that possessed the dignity of general treasurer of Aragon, with place in the Council of this crown and voice also in the one of Italy.

It was again granted to Juan de Mendoza and Luna, III marquis de Montesclaros, by Royal Office of January 8, 1627.15 He married twice: first with Ana Osorio, who had no succession, daughter of Pedro Álvarez Osorio, VIII Marquis of Astorga, IX Count of Trastamara and VIII of Santa Marta.

He was born on January 25, 1629, in the place of San Bayaque, corregimiento de Saña and Kingdom of Peru, 14 and died on October 3, 1665.16 In 1636, when he was still a child and in the life of his father, King Philip IV granted him The title of waiting of marquess of San Martin de la Vega, on one of the towns of the sexmo of Valdemoro that integrated the señorío of Chinchón.

In 1683 his third cousin succeeded• IX Count: Julio Savelli and Peretti, IX Count of Chinchón, III Prince of Albano and II of Venafro, II Duke of Ariccia, Marquis of San Martino, Count of Celano, Baron of Pescina, perpetual marshal of the Holy Roman Church, Lord of San Rufino, San Benedetto dei Marsi, Aschi, Cocullo, Venere, Cerchio, Lecce dei Marsi, Gioia dei Marsi, Biseglia, San Sebastiano, Sperone, Ortucchio, Torre in Pietra, Palidoro, Tor Lupara, Montana, Grotta Scrofana, Stazzano and Castel Cretone, Toisón de Oro.

Top affiliated as tataranieto II Count of Chinchón: great-grandson of Leonor de la Cerda and grandson of the I princes of Venafro.

Three of their sons gave birth to the Sforza-Cesarini lines: the firstborn of the princes of Santa Flora and Genzano, the dukes of Segni, and the counts of Celano.

He was like his father archbishop of Seville and Toledo, cardinal of the title of Santa Maria della Scala and knight of the Golden Toisón.

He married in Rome on November 8, 1821, with Camilo Rúspoli and Khevenhüller-Mestch (1788-1864), Roman prince, leader of the dragon squadron of Pope Leo XII, knight of the Order of Malta, master of Granada and great cross of Carlos III, son of Francesco Ruspoli, III prince of Cerveteri, and of the countess Maria Leopoldina de Khevenhüller-Metsch.

His nephew succeeded him: •XX Count: Luis Carlos Ruspoli y Sanchíz, Morenés y Núñez-Robres (1963 –), XX Count of Chinchón, VI Duke of la Alcudia, VI Duke of Sueca, VIII Marquess of Boadilla del Monte and III Baron of Mascalbó, three times grandee of Spain.

Castle of Chinchón
Palace of the Counts in Segovia
The ruins of the Castle of Chinchon, Spain
Arms of the Counts of Chinchón of the Cabrera family
Francisca Enríquez de Rivera, Countess of Chinchón Virreina del Perú
Arms of Sforza Cesarini
Portrait of Infante Luis of Spain , XIII Count of Chinchón
Maria Teresa de Borbon y Vallabriga, XV Countess of Chinchón
Ruspoli coat of arms