Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 6th Duke of Medina Sidonia

Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán y de Guzmán-Zúñiga, 6th Duke of Medina Sidonia (24 March 1502—26 November 1558) was the son of Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia, half brother of Enrique Pérez de Guzmán, 4th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and the brother of Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 5th Duke of Medina Sidonia. Upon his brother's death in 1549, he became Duke of Medina Sidonia.

He was the father, with Ana de Aragón, of Juan Claros de Guzman y Aragón, or Juan Carlos Pérez de Guzmán y Aragón (d. 1556), who married Leonor de Zúñiga y Sotomayor. However as Don Juan Carlos, predeceased his father in 1556, the title passed to his eldest son Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia.

Spanish nobility
Preceded by
Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán
Duke of Medina Sidonia
1549–1559
Succeeded by
Alonso Pérez de Guzmán


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