Juan Pedro Aladro Kastriota
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Juan de Aladro de Perez y Valasco August 5, 1845 Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain |
| Died | February 15, 1914 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Other names | Aladro Kastrioti |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Known for | Pretender of Albanian Crown |
| Spouse(s) | Juana Renesse y Maelcamp |
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Juan Pedro Aladro y Kastriota (1845–1914), known as Aladro Kastrioti between Albanians, born Juan de Aladro de Perez y Valasco, was a Spanish nobleman, diplomat, and pretender of the throne of Albania. He claimed descent from the Kastrioti family through his paternal grandmother, a noblewoman that lived during the era of Charles III. He was referred as Don Aladro.
Born in Jerez de la Frontera, Province of Cádiz in Andalusia in 1845, he was the illegitimate son of Isabel Aladro Pérez and nobleman Juan Pedro Domecq Lembeye. He attended school in his local town until 1862. After that he studied law in Sevilla. In 1867, he entered diplomatic services and was sent as a diplomat of Spain in various parts of Europe, Vienna, Paris (1869), Brussels (1870), The Hague (1872), Bucharest. He reached the top of his career under the era of Alfonso XII. After Alfonso's death he settled in Paris where he lived on income from his winery-estates that his father left him in 1869. He is regarded a sportsman and possessed a remarkable collection of racing horses.
During his diplomatic tours he grew interest in Albanian cause, and started publishing brochures all around Europe and the Mediterranean, including Brussels, Alexandria, Athens, Napoli, Venice, Bucharest, etc. He was a financial contributor to the First Albanian School of Korçë assisting the school to stay open until it was closed by Ottoman authorities. Don Aladro kept contact with Albanian Rilindas and was idealized from some of them as a right heir for a future throne of independent Albania. He visited Sicily and Calabria where he kept contact with the Arbereshe notables in order to support his cause. Aladro visited the Montecassino Abbey searching for documents which supported his claims as a Kastrioti descendant.
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