Doña Maria Josefa Contreras y Vargas Machuca, Countess of Alcudia (1756-1826), was a Spanish courtier. She was the Camarera mayor de Palacio to the queen of Spain, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, in 1819–1823.https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/12119-ana-maria-de-contreras-y-vargasMoral Roncal, A. M. (2020). La Camarería Mayor en la corte de Fernando VII: Un espacio nobiliario de poder informal y capital simbólico. Hispania, 80(264), 139–167. https://doi.org/10.3989/hispania.2020.005
She was born to Pedro Pablo Valentín de Contreras y Muñoz de Gadea, V conde de Alcudia y IV vizconde de Santa Clara, and Tomasa de Vargas-Machuca y Maldonado, IV marquesa de Campo Fuerte.
She married in 1780 to Manuel Isidoro de Aguilera y Galarza, Marqués de Cerralbo.
She was appointed to the post of Camarera mayor de Palacio to queen in 1819.
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