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3 unusual facts about Ávalos


Alfonso d'Avalos

In July 1535 he was part of the naval troops reconquering the city of Tunis in North Africa.

Ávalos

Alfonso d'Avalos (1502-1546), Italian condottiero and 4th Marquess of Pescara

Pedro de Valdivia

In 1520 he joined the Spanish army of Charles I and fought in Flanders in 1521 and Italy between 1522 and 1525, participating in the battle of Pavia as part of the troops of the Marquis of Pescara.


Aldo Bobadilla

Aldo Antonio Bobadilla Ávalos (born 20 April 1976 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan retired football goalkeeper.

Bernardino Realino

Subsequently he entered the service of Francesco Ferdinando d'Avalos, viceroy of Sicily, and moved to Naples, where he decided to embark on a religious career and joined the Jesuits.

Centro Cultural de la Raza

Those active in forming the center and the organization of Los Toltecas en Aztlán, the organizing body of the center, were Salvador Torres, Guillermo Aranda, Ruben de Anda, Mario Acevedo, Victor Ochoa, David Avalos, the Enrique Family, the Delia Moreno Family, and others.

Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos

Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos (May 1, 1926 – March 19, 2009) was the Paraguayan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Asunción from his appointment on May 20, 1989, until his retirement on June 12, 2002.

Benítez Avalos was born in Piribebuy on May 1, 1926, to parents, Angel del Rosario Benítez García and Juana Avalos Rodríguez.

Fernando Horácio Ávalos

In January 2014, Ávalos signed a one year contract with Angolan side Bravos do Maquis.

Gabriel Ávalos

Gabriel Ávalos Stumpfs (born November 30, 1990 in Hohenau, Paraguay) is an Paraguayan footballer currently playing for Deportes Concepción of the Primera División B in Chile

Italian War of 1542–46

In Piedmont, meanwhile, a stalemate had developed between the French, under the Sieur de Boutières, and the Imperial army, under Alfonso d'Avalos; d'Avalos had captured the fortress of Carignano, and the French had besieged it, hoping to force the Imperial army into a decisive battle.

John Trobaugh

In Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Trobaugh's work was shown alongside Dread Scott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sue Coe, Lynda Benglis, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, Alma Lopez, John Jota Leaos, Benita Carr, Anita Steckel, Renee Cox, Gayla Lemke, Marilyn Zimmerman, John Sims, The Critical Art Ensemble, Eric Fischl, Tom Forsythe, Nancy Worthington, David Avalos, Scott Kessler, Louis Hock and Elizabeth Sisco.

José Vicente Rangel Ávalos

José Vicente Rangel Ávalos is a Venezuelan politician, former mayor of Sucre Municipality in Caracas.

Luis Ávalos

Avalos also starred as Jesse Rodriguez on the short-lived situation comedy Condo with McLean Stevenson, and as Dr. Tomas Esquivel on the short-lived situation comedy E/R with Elliott Gould and Mary McDonnell.

Vittoria Colonna

Betrothed when four years old to Fernando Francesco d'Ávalos, son of the marquis of Pescara, at the insistence of Ferdinand, king of Naples, she received the highest education and gave early proof of a love of letters.


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