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Grandees of Spain (Spanish: Grandes de España) are the highest-ranking members of the Spanish nobility. They comprise nobles who hold the most important historical landed titles in Spain or its former colonies. Many such hereditary titles are held by heads of families, having been acquired via strategic marriages between landed families.
Portrait of a Spanish nobleman, The 5th Duke of Alburquerque, Grandee of Spain, at the height of the Spanish Empire, 1560 The Spanish nobility are people who possess a title of nobility confirmed by the Spanish Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, as well as those individuals appointed to one of Spain's three highest orders of knighthood: the Order of the Golden ...
Both Portuguese and Brazilian nobility adopted the term grande ("grandee") from the Spanish, to designate a higher rank of noblemen. [19] The Brazilian system automatically deemed dukes, marquises and counts (as well as archbishops and bishops) grandes do Império ("grandees of the Empire", or literally translated as "Great Ones of the Empire").
Pages in category "Grandees of Spain" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 355 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Pedro Fajardo y Chacón, 1st Marquis of los Vélez, [a] Grandee of Spain, (c. 1478 –1542), [1] was a Spanish nobleman, soldier, and politician. His seat was at the Castillo de Vélez-Blanco . Biography
Count of Maceda (Spanish: Conde de Maceda) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1654 by Philip IV to Alonso de Lanzós, Lord of Maceda and knight of the Order of Santiago. [2] The name makes reference to the town of Maceda in Galicia, Spain, where the 1st count held a fiefdom. [3]
Duke of Bailén (Spanish: Duque de Bailén) is a hereditary title in the peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1833 by Ferdinand VII to Francisco Javier Castaños for his military achievements during the Peninsular War as Captain general of the Royal Spanish Armies, [2] becoming the first man to destroy a Napoleonic army in an open field battle.
Duke of Granada de Ega (Spanish: Duque de Granada de Ega) commonly known as Duke of Granada, is a hereditary title in the peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of Grandee and granted in 1729 by Philip V to Juan de Idiázquez y Eguía, who was captain general of the Royal Spanish Armies.