Consort: | yes |
Spouse: | Rosalía Álvarez de Toledo y Silva-Bazán |
Adolfo Ruspoli y Godoy | |
Full Name: | Adolfo Ruspoli y Godoy |
Succession: | 3rd Duke of Alcudia |
Predecessor: | Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria |
Successor: | Prince Carlos Ruspoli |
Reign: | 1851–1914 |
House: | Ruspoli |
Father: | Prince Camillo Ruspoli |
Mother: | Carlota Godoy and Bourbon |
Birth Date: | 28 December 1822 |
Birth Place: | Bordeaux, Kingdom of France |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Don Adolfo Ruspoli y Godoy (di Bassano), de Khevenhüller-Metsch y Borbón, dei Principi Ruspoli (December 28, 1822 – February 4, 1914) was a Spanish aristocrat, son of the prince Camillo Ruspoli and wife Carlota de Godoy y Borbón, 2nd Duchess of Sueca.
He was 2nd Duke of Alcudia, Grandee of Spain First Class, with a Coat of Arms of de Godoy in succession of his maternal grandfather (Letter of February 18, 1853) and 3rd Count of Évoramonte in Portugal Portugal de Juro e Herdade with Honours of Relative, Maestrante of Granada, Gentleman of the Chamber of Her Catholic Majesty with exercise and service, Senator of the Realm, etc. And Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
He married in Madrid, May 11, 1857 Doña Rosalía Álvarez de Toledo y Silva-Bazán, de Palafox-Portocarrero y Téllez-Girón (Naples, January 21/2, 1833 – Lucca, July/June 11, 1865), daughter of Don Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo y Palafox, Gonzaga y Portocarrero, 17th Duke of Medina-Sidonia, Marquiss of Villafranca del Vierzo, 13th Marquis of Los Vélez, and 21st Count of Niebla, Grandee of Spain First Classe. The first cousin of Eugenia de Montijo (Empress of the French), and wife Doña María del Pilar Joaquina de Silva-Bazán y Téllez-Girón, de Waldstein y Pimentel, of the Marqueses de Santa-Cruz, etc., and had five children: