Don Pedro Caro y Salas, 4th Marquis of La Romana, Grandee of Spain (20 June 1805 â 8 December 1855) was a Spanish aristocrat.
He was the son of General Pedro Caro Sureda, 3rd Marquis of La Romana (1761âÂÂ1811) and Dionisia de Salas y Boixadors. His sister, Margarita, married Joaquin Bou Crespi de Valldaura y Carvajal, 13th Count of Orgaz, in 1821.
His paternal uncles, José Caro Sureda, and Juan Caro Sureda also served in the Spanish army during the Peninsular War. His paternal grandparents were Pedro Caro y Fontes, 2nd Marquis of La Romana, and Margarita Sureda-Valero y Togores.
In 1811, at the age of five, he was orphaned by his father, inheriting his titles, among which was that of Marquis of La Romana, with a second-class Grandee of Spain. In 1817, King Ferdinand VII elevated this Grandee to a First-Class Grandee. On 28 January 1826, he was crowned a Grandee of Spain at the Royal Palace of Madrid, before Ferdinand VII.
After the death of Ferdinand VII and the promulgation of the Royal Statute of 1834, he was named a Peer of the House of Peers, the upper house in the Spanish Cortes between 1834 and 1836. Caro, however, did not take the oath of office as he supported the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, Infante Carlos MarÃÂa Isidro, which led to his exile along with other members of the high nobility of the time. In the mid-1830s he settled with his family in Vienna, where his brother-in-law Pedro de Alcántara ÃÂlvarez de Toledo, 13th Marquess of Villafranca, already lived.
He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III and made a Knight of the Real Maestranza de CaballerÃÂa de Valencia.
On 21 August 1826 in Naples, Caro married Maria del Rosario Tomasa ÃÂlvarez de Toledo y Palafox, Duchess of Montalto (1805âÂÂ1870), the daughter of Francisco de Borja ÃÂlvarez de Toledo, 12th Marquis of Villafranca (and 16th Duke of Medina Sidonia) and MarÃÂa Tomasa Palafox y Portocarrero (daughter of Felipe Antonio de Palafox Croy and MarÃÂa Francisca de Sales Portocarrero de Guzmán y Zúñiga, 6th Countess of Montijo and Grandee of Spain). Her brother was Pedro de Alcántara ÃÂlvarez de Toledo, 13th Marquess of Villafranca. Together, they were the parents of:
The Marquis died on 8 December 1855 and was succeeded in the marquisate by his eldest son, Pedro.
Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of Pedro Caro y Széchényi, 6th Marquis of La Romana (1849âÂÂ1916), and José Caro y Széchényi (1854âÂÂ1936), who served as Spain's ambassador to Japan.
Through his daughter RosalÃÂa, he was a grandfather of José JoaquÃÂn ÃÂlvarez de Toledo, 19th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1865âÂÂ1915).
Through his youngest son Carlos, he was a grandfather of MarÃÂa del Carmen Caro y Caro (1856âÂÂ1907), who married Carlos Ruspoli, 3rd Duke of Alcudia and Sueca (son of Adolfo Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Alcudia, and Rosalia ÃÂlvarez de Toledo y Silva-Bazán).