On June 13, 1988, the Duke of Huéscar married, aged 40, in the Seville Cathedral Matilde de Solís-Beaumont y Martínez-Campos, daughter of Fernando de Solís-Beaumont, 10th Marquis of la Motilla, and wife Isabel Martínez-Campos, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Seo de Urgel.
Despite this precaution, the ownership of the library was contested for several decades after Fernando's death until it passed into the hands of the Cathedral in Seville, Spain.
He received his name from his frequent use of cypress trees in miniatures painted for Seville Cathedral choirbooks.
The Giralda is the former minaret of the mosque that stood on the site under Muslim rule, and was built to resemble the minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech, Morocco.
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Designed by Pedro Sanchez Falconete in the last third of the 17th century, it is framed by Corinthian columns with a sculpture on top representing King Ferdinand III of Castile next to the Saints Isidore, Leander, Justa and Rufina.
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Later, his remains were transferred to the Catedral de Santa María de la Sede de Sevilla to a marble sepulcher made by Domenico Fancelli and commissioned by his brother, Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones.