Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo y Maura, nicknamed “the red duchess”, was a Spanish aristocrat, writer and historian, who She married Leoncio González de Gregorio y MartI in 1955, in Mortera.
Upon marrying the duchessLeoncio, a horseman from Soriano, had already sired a illegitimate daughter with her maid: Rosario Bermudowho was not recognized by the hidalgo until 2017, when DNA tests confirmed their relationship.
Rosario Muñoz, Bermudo’s mother worked as a maid on the farm that Leoncio’s family had in Badajoz. “My mother told me that they were both very much in love, and that he knew that she she got pregnant when I was about 18 years old,” the heiress said before The Country.
In 2018, the lawyer of González de Gregorio’s first-born daughter, Fernando Osuna, estimated that after verifying her genetic link with the rider, His client was due an inheritance of about two million eurosbut it was not until 2024 that the amount that Bermudez will receive has been officially determined.
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How much money will Rosario Bermúdez receive as an inheritance after years of legal battle?
According to the newspaper The CountryOn October 21, after 11 years of fighting, a judge from Soria ruled that her four children that Leoncio González de Gregorio y Martí had with the red duchess They must pay Rosario Bermudo 1.2 million euros in total, as part of the inheritance that corresponds to her for being the first-born daughter of the hidalgo.
Besides, The children of the red duchess must also bear the costs of the trial. “With this sentence, Rosario Bermudo closes a circle that began in 2013, when she began her filiation process, just five years after her father, whom she never met, died,” it is reported from The Country.
Leoncio González de Gregorio y Martí died in his palace in the Soria municipality of Quintana Redonda and since then Rosario, his first-born daughter, fought for her affiliation.
At the moment the stepdaughter of the red duchess is 72 years oldis a humble housewife and lives in the Madrid town of Torrejón de Ardoz. “Her father’s inheritance is going to help her compensate for a life of hardship and sacrifice that she now carries out with a pension of 800 euros, but, above all, it will alleviate her husband’s health problems and help her three children,” ensures the The Country, medium that obtained exclusive statements from the first-born daughter.
“There are a lot of things at once, I don’t know where I’m going to start,” Bermudo assured the media after his legal victory.
