Pedro Caro y Salas

Don Pedro Caro y Salas, 4th Marquis of La Romana, Grandee of Spain (20 June 1805 – 8 December 1855) was a Spanish aristocrat.

Early life He was the son of General Pedro Caro Sureda, 3rd Marquis of La Romana (1761–1811) 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. Her brother was Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Marquess of Villafranca. Together, they were the parents of:

Pedro Caro y Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of La Romana (1827–1888), who married Countess Erzsebet "Elisabeth" Széchényi de Sarvar et Felsövidek, a daughter of Count Pál Széchényi (a son of Count Ferenc Széchényi), and the former Emilie Zichy-Ferraris. Rosalía Caro y Álvarez de Toledo (1828–1903), who married her cousin, José Álvarez de Toledo y Silva, 18th Duke of Medina Sidonia. Carlos Caro y Álvarez de Toledo, Count of Caltavuturo (1835–1873), who married María de la Encarnación Caro y Gumucio, a daughter of Buenaventura Caro y Caro.

The Marquis died on 8 December 1855 and was succeeded in the marquisate by his eldest son, Pedro.

Through his daughter Rosalía, he was a grandfather of José Joaquín Álvarez de Toledo, 19th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1865–1915).

Through his youngest son Carlos, he was a grandfather of María del Carmen Caro y Caro (1856–1907), who married Carlos Ruspoli, 3rd Duke of Alcudia and Sueca (son of Adolfo Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Alcudia, and Rosalia Álvarez de Toledo y Silva-Bazán).