Last March, the Court of Madrid recognized Rosario Bermudo as the daughter of Leoncio González de Gregorio, husband of the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, known as the Red Duchess. In this ruling, which has been appealed to the Supreme Court by some of the children of the marriage, the court described as “certainly reprehensible” the procedural conduct of the children officers of the Dukes of Medina Sidona Regarding the sister. due to the total lack of collaboration to carry out the DNA tests. A situation that led to the need to exhume the father’s body with the consequent increase in cost of the process and the delays in time that this fact entailed, recalls Rosario Bermudo’s lawyer, Fernando Osuna.
The woman’s lawyer emphasizes that, now, some of the children of the Duchess Roja and Leoncio González de Gregorio have appealed to the Supreme “which I hope will be pronounced in a month at the most” the sentence of the Court of Madrid that recognized Rosario as the daughter of the duke.
Fernando Osuna He has reported that the inheritance that his client would receive is between one million and three million euros and that there is already a group of investors who want to buy her hereditary rights from this woman from Écija. According to the lawyer “resorting to the high court is a strategy exclusively to waste time, given that the Supreme Court usually challenges this type of appeal”.
Rosario Bermudo undertook this legal battle to be recognized as the daughter of Leoncio González de Gregorio eight years ago. Her lawyer has announced that once the filiation case is resolved in the Supreme Court, the lawsuit for the inheritance will begin, “which can last another eight years, although hereditary agreements with some of his brothers are not ruled out.”
Osna recalls that although his client agreed that the DNA test necessary for the filiation be carried out with his brothers, so as not to exhume the duke, it was not possible, as the presumed biological brothers did not volunteer, except for one of them. Given this situation, the judge decided to exhume his alleged father.
According to the judgment of the Court of Madrid, Rosario Bermúdez is the daughter of Leoncio Gonzalez de Gregorio. The woman, who is the daughter of a servant of the husband of the one known as the Red Duchess. The DNA tests carried out on the remains of Leoncio González de Gregorio confirmed 99.99% that the woman, over 60 years old and resident in Madrid, is the illegitimate daughter of the aristocrat with the maid. For many years she has claimed that she is the daughter of the aristocrat who had an extramarital affair four years before he married the duchess when she worked at the González de Gregorio house in Madrid.
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