Cristóbal Colon de Toledo de la Cerda y Gante, XIV duque de Veragua

XIII. Don Cristobal Colon de Toledo de la Cerda y Gante, who studied law in the University of Madrid, and has held important positions, national and even international. He is a man of great courtesy and sociability. Although not a sailor or soldier, he is entitled to wear the uniform of an admiral

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• Cristóbal Colón de Toledo Larreategui Cerda, duque Veragua (14th),duque Vega de Santo Domingo (12th)
• Born 8 June 1837 - Madrid, España
• Died 30 October 1910 - Madrid, España , age at death: 73 years old

Parents

• Pedro Colón de Toledo Larreategui Ramírez de Baquedano, Duque Veragua
• María del Pilar Luisa Cerda Gand y de la Rochefoucauld

Spouses and children

• Married 18 January 1867 to Isabel Aguilera Santiago-Perales 1843-1903
• F María del Pilar Colón de Toledo Larreategui Aguilera, Duque Vega de Santo Domingo 1874-1931
• M Cristobal Colón de Toledo Larreategui Aguilera, Duque Veragua 1878-1936
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• Cristobal Colon de la Cerda (1837-1910) (Duke of Veragua)
• font: - BLEIBERG, Germain i altres: Dictionary of the History of Spain. (1979). Madrid: Alianza Editorial. 910, 2 ed., 3 vols.

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• Born and died in Madrid. Descendant of the discoverer, Duke de la Vega and Marquis of Jamaica, was active in the Radical Party under the leadership of Ruiz Zorrilla, being first elected in 1871. The following year he was vice president of Congress, and in 1878 passed the Senate in its own right. In 1890, under the chairmanship of Sagasta, played the portfolio of Public Works, and in 1901 he was Minister of Marine with the President himself, in the last Cabinet regency remained so in the first term of Alfonso XIII. [A. P.] (vol.III,