When Alfonso Joseph López Camacho León was born on 13 March 1709, in Manzanares, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, his father, Agustin López Martín, was 33 and his mother, Teresa María Dueñas Núñez, was 22. He married María Josepha González Román on 1 September 1737, in Manzanares, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
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The War of the Spanish Succession ended when Spain lost all of its European empire.
Spain lost Florida to the United Kingdom.
French forces led by Napoleon conquered Spain but the Spanish regained control in 1814.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Miguel, Jorge, Raul, Ramon, Mario.
Spanish (López): patronymic from the medieval personal name Lope ‘wolf’. This is one of the commonest of all Spanish surnames. In the US, it is the twelfth most frequent surname. Compare De Lopez .
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
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