Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of Villafranca

Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Colonna, 5th Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo, (Naples, 6 september 1546 – 17 July 1627), Governor of the Duchy of Milan, 1616 - 1618 , Prince of Montalbano, 2nd Duke of Fernandina was a Spanish-Italian nobleman and a Grandee of Spain the son of García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, and Vittoria Colonna di Paliano.

He was also a Commander in chief of an army in Naples, General of Cavalry of Spain in 1621 . His success in Milan was awarded with the honorable Grandeza de España title in 1623. In 1625 he participated in the Defense of Cadiz against the attacks from the Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Sir Edward Cecil.

The expulsion of the Spanish moriscos since 1610 increased the naval attacks in the West Mediterranean, when young Ahmed I held the Turkish sultanate, with even expeditions setting up shore in some sea side Andalusian towns and a military buildings and engineering program quite substantial there and then, with Italian engineers working in Italy, Spain and the Caribbean in America.

On 7 June 1576 he married Elvira de Mendoza, daughter of Íñigo Lopez de Hurtado de Mendoza, III Marquess of Mondéjar, 4th count of Tendilla, Viceroy of Naples, 1575 - 1579, a.k.a. Iñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza, 1512 - 1580), and Maria de Mendoza.

His father in law was the son of Luis Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd Marquess of Mondéjar, Viceroy of Navarre, 1543 - 1546. They had four children.

• Doña Victoria de Toledo, married Don Luis Ponce de León, 6th Marquis of Zahara
• Don García Álvarez de Toledo, 6th Marquis of Villafranca, deceased at Madrid, 1649 and Grandee of Spain, notorious sea man in the mediterranean French coast and in the actual Moroccan shores.
• Don Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza
• Doña María de Toledo, a nun