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Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Ocejo y Robato (5 March 1906 – 23 May 1994) was known as the Countess of Covadonga after her marriage to Alfonso, former Prince of Asturias, in 1933.
The ceremony was for the entombment of His Royal Highness Alfonso of Borbon, Prince of the Asturias, the heir to the Spanish throne, and later styled the Count of Covadonga.
May 13, 2024 · Alfonso was king of Galicia, León and Castile—initially, the latter title was not worth much as another Alfonso, Alfonso the Battler of Aragón, had more or less swept into Castile and taken over. But our Alfonso was determined and managed to push his older namesake out of his hereditary lands.
Jun 21, 2023 · The Prince of Asturias renounced his rights to the then-defunct Throne to marry the Cuban commoner, after which he took the courtesy title of Count of Covadonga. The couple divorced in 1937, with Edelmira keeping the title Countess of Covadonga until her death in 1994, while Prince Alfonso died in a car crash due to his haemophilia in 1938 ...
Alfonso VI (c. 1040/1041 – 1 July 1109), nicknamed the Brave (El Bravo) or the Valiant, was king of León (1065–1109), Galicia (1071–1109), and Castile (1072–1109).
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (10 May 1907 – 6 September 1938), was heir apparent to the throne of Spain from birth until the abolition of the monarchy in 1931. He renounced his rights to the defunct throne in 1933. Alfonso was the eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.
The reign of Alfonso XII of Spain began after the triumph of the Pronunciamiento de Sagunto of December 29, 1874, which put an end to the First Spanish Republic and ended with the death of King Alfonso on November 25, 1885, giving way to the Regency of his wife, María Cristina of Habsburg.
