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Duke of Nochera (; ) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of
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. Originally styled "Duca di Nocera", it was granted in 1656 by Philip IV to Francisco de Moura Corterreal,
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. The title made reference to the town of
Nocera dei Pagani Nocera dei Pagani (), as it was known between the 16th century and 1806, was a ''civitas'' that included a large portion of the Agro nocerino-sarnese, corresponding to five contemporary municipalities: Nocera Inferiore, Nocera Superiore, Pa ...
, in the
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, subjected to Spain at the time.


History

The ducal
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of Nocera was created for the first time in December 1521 by Emperor
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in his prerogatives as King of
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, and was sold for 50.000 ducats to (?–1527), one of the many members of the noble
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. The title was descendible in the legitimate male line and remained in the possession of Tiberio's descendants until 1648, when, upon the death without legitimate sons of (after 1616–1648), it was reincorporated into the Royal Treasury of the Kingdom Naples. The title was subsequently created for a second time in 1659 when it was bestowed upon aforesaid General Moura. This time, in accordance with Spanish law, the title was also descendible in the female line (of course in the absence of legitimate sons). Thus, when Moura died without male issue in 1675, he was succeeded, in order, by his daughters
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, who in turn died without surviving issue in 1706, and , who was first married to Italian Giberto
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(ca 1637–1676), Prince of San Gregorio. Few months after her succession, however, following the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples by the Habsbourgs in 1707, Juana was stripped of her titles for "felony", having refused to render homage to the new King Charles III (later to become
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under the name of Charles VI) and in 1709 her pro-Habsburg second-born son was invested with the duchy of Nocera in her stead, taking effective possession of it. When Juana died in 1717, she was nominally succeeded, according to Spanish law, by her eldest son
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, who had meanwhile gained a prominent place in the Spanish
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court, and subsequently, on the latter's death in 1723, by his son (called in Spain Gisberto Pío de Saboya y Spínola), but the duchy effectively remained in Luigi's possession according to Austrian law then still in force in the Kingdom of Naples. In 1734, however, the Kingdom was again conquered, this time by the
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, and, the following year, the 1707 confiscation of Juana's titles was annulled and the same, including the duchy of Nocera, were reincorporated into the Pio di Savoia
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with Gisberto as its titular. No further opposition was offered by Luigi, at the time the
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n ambassador in
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, who had no legitimate children and of whom Gisberto was the legal heir as well. When Gisberto too died childless in 1776, the title passed to his sister , married in second marriage to Antonio José Valcárcel y Pérez Pastor, and then to her Valcárcel descendants. At the death with no issue of her grandson Antonio Valcárcel y Pascual de Pobil, the 8th Duke, in 1824, the dukedom became extinct until it was rehabilitated by
Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French language, French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May ...
in 1922 under the name of "Duque de Nochera", on behalf of Alfonso Falcó y De La Gandara, great-great-grandson in the female line of the 7th Duke Antonio Valcárcel y Pío de Saboya. As the Falcó family too died out in 1970, the title has passed to a line of the Italian Balbo Bertone di Sambuy family, also descended from the 7th duke.


Dukes of Nocera


1521

* Tiberio Carafa (1521-1527) * Ferdinando I Carafa (1527-1558) * Alfonso Carafa (1558-1581) * Ferdinando II Carafa (1581-1593 *
Francesco Maria Carafa image:FrancescoMariaCarafa.jpg, 250px, Francesco Maria Carafa. Francesco Maria Carafa (died 1642) was an Italian nobility, Italian nobleman, 5th Duke of Nochera, a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece and was Lieutenants of the Kingdom of Arag ...
(1593-1642) * Francesco Maria Domenico Carafa (1642-1648)


1659

* Francisco de Moura Corterreal y Melo, 1st Duke of Nocera (1610-1675) *
Leonor de Moura y Moncada de Aragón Eleanor de Moura (, ; – 28 November 1706) was a Spanish noblewoman of Portuguese birth, notable for serving as Viceroy of Sicily for one month in 1677. Biography Her father was Francisco de Moura Corte Real, 3rd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo an ...
, 2nd Duchess of Nocera (d. 1706), daughter of the 1st Duke *, 3rd Duchess of Nocera (1650-1717), sister of the 2nd Duchess, dispossessed of her titles in 1707 according to Austrian law then in force in the
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**, 4th Duke of Nocera from 1709 to 1735 according to Austrian law then in force in the Kingdom of Naples, second-born son of the dispossessed 3rd Duchess * Francisco Pío de Saboya y Moura, 4th Duke of Nocera, pretender according to Spanish law (1672-1723), eldest son of the 3rd Duchess *, 5th Duke of Nocera (1717–1776), son of the 4th Duke, pretender until 1735, effective thereafter *, 6th Duchess of Nocera (1719-1799), sister of the 5th Duke *Antonio Valcárcel y Pío de Saboya, 7th Duke of Nochera (1748-1808), son of the 6th Duchess *Antonio Valcárcel y Pascual de Pobil, 8th Duke of Nochera (1772-1824), son of the 7th Duke


1922

*Alfonso Falcó y de la Gándara, 9th Duke of Nochera (1903-1967), great-great-grandson of the 7th Duke *María Asunción Falcó y de la Gándara, 10th Duchess of Nochera (1883-1971), sister of the 9th Duke *Carlo Ernesto Balbo Bertone di Sambuy, 11th Duke of Nochera (1916-2003), first cousin once removedThrough his maternal grandmother Beatriz Falcó y Trivulzio, who was Alfonso and María Asunción's aunt – and thus the 7th Duke's great-granddaughter (). of the 9th Duke and 10th Duchess *Filippo Balbo Bertone di Sambuy, 12th Duke of Nochera (b. 1956), son of the 11th Duke


See also

*
List of dukes in the peerage of Spain This is a list of the 149 present and extant royal and non-royal dukes in the peerage of the Spain, Kingdom of Spain. The oldest six titles – created between 1380 and 1476 – were Duke of Medina Sidonia (1380), Duke of Alburquerque (1464), D ...
*
List of current grandees of Spain Grandees of Spain () are the highest-ranking members of the Spanish nobility. They comprise nobles who hold the most important historical landed titles in Spain or its Spanish Empire, former colonies. Many such hereditary titles are held by extend ...


References

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