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Casa de la Cerda is a royal house that originated in the crown of Castile because it was a minor branch of the house of Burgundy that reigned in the middle of the thirteenth century through Alfonso X. Descended from the infant Fernando de la Cerda, son of King Alfonso X of Castile, nicknamed "de la Cerda" because he was born with a thick hair or sow in the chest. It is one of the four lineages that emerged directly from the Castilian regal trunk during the thirteenth century and is the origin of the House of Medinaceli.
The origin of the lineage starts from Alfonso de la Cerda, son of the heir to the throne, the infant Fernando de la Cerda, who died prematurely before his father, Alfonso X. The latter always defended that his successor was his grandson Alfonso, the son of his first-born, instead of his second son, the infant Sancho. This motivated his rebellion against his father, King Alfonso. During a long civil war, finally, Alfonso de la Cerda, king rival of Castile (1296-1304), but not of Leon, is proclaimed king of Castile in Sahagún according to some authors, and by others, proclaimed king of Castile and Leon in Jaca in 1288. Although the aspirations of Alfonso de la Cerda were paraded in 1291 by Treaty of Monteagudo the civil war (1296-1304) continued in the days of Fernando IV. the last, after years of conflict, the arbitral sentence of Torrellas meant the cessation of Castilian pretensions, definitively displacing from her the suitor, and his descendants the lineage of the Cerda.
The Cerda lineage continued throughout the Middle Ages, becoming a nobility house of the first rank, playing a prominent role in Castilian politics. The lineage, like others of the time, as a result of the civil war of the mid-14th century, continued along the female line when the family inheritance fell on Isabel de la Cerda and Pérez de Guzmán, married to Bernardo de Bearne, Count of Medinaceli, thus conforming the house of Medinaceli. This one would give continuity to the line of the Cerda until the IX Duke of Medinaceli, Luis Francisco de la Cerda and Aragon, in which this lineage extinguished that was in charge of the duchy during 9 generations, happening in the hands of the family Fernandez de Cordova, who sported it for more than 400 years until the death of Victoria Eugenia Fernandez de Córdoba and Fernandez de Henestrosa XVIII Duchess of Medinaceli. Since 15 September 2014, the lineage designated to be at the head of the house and the duchy is the surname associated with the German principality of Hohenlohe through the XIX Duke of Medinaceli Marco de Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Medina. >
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