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About Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar
Alfonso de la Cueva-Benavides y Mendoza-Carrillo, marqués de Bedmar was a Spanish diplomat, bishop and Roman Catholic cardinal. He was born in Bedmar, in what is now the province of Jaén. Alfonso was the son of Luis de la Cueva-Benavides, 2nd señor of Bedmar, and Elvira Carrillo de Mendoza y Cárdenas.
Everything about Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar →- Occupation
- diplomat, Catholic priest, bishop
- Position held
- cardinal, protonotary apostolic, Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Born
- 1572
- Died
- August 10, 1655