Ángela Foch de Aragón, Dowager Countess of Altamira, Grandee of Spain (1666-1737), was a Spanish courtier. She was the Camarera mayor de Palacio to the queen of Spain, Elisabeth Farnese in 1714–1737.J. Ezquerra del Bayo y L. Pérez Bueno, Retratos de mujeres españolas del siglo xix, Madrid, Junta de Iconografía Nacional-Imprenta de Julio Cosano, 1924.
She was born to Luis de Aragón y Fernández de Córdoba, VII. duke of Cardona, and María de Benavides, duchess of Cardona. She married to Luis de Moscoso Osorio Mesía de Guzmán Mendoza y Rojas, VIII. count of Altamira (1657–1698).
She was appointed Camarera mayor de Palacio in succession to Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins. She was described: "She was small and ugly, and at sixty might be taken for seventy-five. Yet, notwithstanding her bad figure, she had a dignified and imposing presence. She ruled the ladies of the household with a courteous absolutism, which none ever dared to question." Armstrong, Edward (1892). Elisabeth Farnese, the Termagant of Spain. Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 143
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