While not an Italian name, D’Avalos are connected with Aragona’s that ruled Spain and Naples in the mid 1500’s. Francesca D’Avalos married into the Caracciolo family in the early 1600’s. Maybe that’s where some of the Spanish DNA comes from. D’ Avalos, originally from Spain, came to Italy with the retinue of Alfonso I d’ Aragona. They were distinguished for military value, diplomatic ability and fidelity to the Crown, qualities that always led them to cover a pre-eminent position in the Italian and European politics of the epoch. An example of the narrow connection that was uniting them to the Crown was the confidence of the office of Great Chamberlain or Camerlingo (President of the Chamber of the Summary one), that was held continually for two centuries at the family in spite of aligning itself on the throne of several dynasties. In 1714, Caesar Michelangelo d’ Avalos, for the support given to the house of Austria in the war of succession to the throne of Naples against Filippo V of Spain, had conferred at Carlo’s of Austria, become a king’s with the name of Carlo III, the Prince’s headline of Sacred Romano Impero.
Rodrigo I D’avalos’s relation to you: Direct ancestor (17 generations)
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Here’s how:
1. Nicholas Victor Sorrentino is your father
2. Maria Luigia Piromallo is the mother of Nicholas Victor Sorrentino
3. Maria Emilia Caracciolo is the mother of Maria Luigia Piromallo
4. Filippo Caracciolo is the father of Maria Emilia Caracciolo
5. Prince Luigi Caracciolo is the father of Filippo Caracciolo
6. Prince Ambrogio II Caracciolo is the father of Prince Luigi Caracciolo
7. Prince Luigi Caracciolo is the father of Prince Ambrogio II Caracciolo
8. Ambrogio Caracciolo is the father of Prince Luigi Caracciolo
9. Prince Marino III Caracciolo is the father of Ambrogio Caracciolo
10. Prince Francesco Marino Caracciolo is the father of Prince Marino III Caracciolo
11. Francesca D’AVOLOS is the mother of Prince Francesco Marino Caracciolo
12. Innico III D’Avalos is the father of Francesca D’AVOLOS
13. Cesare D’Avalos is the father of Innico III D’Avalos
14. Marchese Alfonso D’avalos is the father of Cesare D’Avalos
15. Marchese Innico II D’avalos is the father of Marchese Alfonso D’avalos
16. Count Inigo I D’avalos is the father of Marchese Innico II D’avalos
17. Rodrigo I D’avalos is the father of Count Inigo I D’avalos
Alfonso 12th GG
He was born in Ischia, the cousin of Francesco Ferdinando I d’Ávalos, inheriting his titles after 1525, fighting the French and the Venetians by his side. During the period 1526-1528 he fought under Hugo of Moncada, being captured on 28 April 1528 by the Genoese captain Filippino Doria at the Capo d’Orso.
In July 1535 he was part of the naval troops reconquering the city of Tunis in North Africa. The failure on the third war against France trying to invade Provence, and the death of the first Governor of the Duchy of Milan, Antonio de Leyva, prompted him in 1538 to accept the nomination as governor, replacing Marino Caracciolo, the second governor, becoming some sort of protector of literary and musical people[clarification needed]. Wars with French and North Italians ended for a while with the Treaty of Crespy (1544). He also became a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Having fought at the Battle of Pavia, he later represented Spain as ambassador, in 1538, on the succession to the new Doge of the Republic of Venice, Pietro Lando.
He commanded the Imperial army in Italy during the Italian War of 1542 and was defeated by the French at the Battle of Ceresole. However, in the Battle of Serravalle on 2 June 1544, an aftermath of the Italian War of 1542, he managed to defeat a force of freshly raised Italian mercenaries in French service, commanded by Pietro Strozzi and Giovanni Francesco Orsini, count of Pitigliano.
He married in 1523 with Maria d’Aragona and had 5 children including
- Innico d’Avalos d’Aragona, (1536–1600), an Italian Cardinal.
- Francesco Ferdinando d’Ávalos (1537–1571), commander in chief of the Spanish army in Lombardy and Piedmont.
Innico I 14th GG
Iñigo I d’Avalos (Italian: Ignazio or Innico; died 1484) was an Aragonese general.[1]
His grandfather, Ruy López d´Ávalos, had been constable of Castile. Iñigo came to Italy with Alfonso V of Aragon in 1442. He took part in the naval battle of Ponza in 1435. In 1452, after the Aragonese conquest of the Kingdom of Naples, he was made Count of Monteodorisio.
In 1452 he married Antonella d’Aquino, heiress to the marquisate of Pescara, which was thenceforth part of the family’s fiefs. Iñigo died in Naples in 1480: his lands were inherited by his son Alphonso. His grandsons Alfonso and Fernando and his great grandson Francesco Ferdinando d’Avalos were generals for Spain in the Italian Wars.
