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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.
A. Duke of Abrantes (1642) Marquis of Cañete; Duke of Alba; Lord of Alconchel; Descendants of Alfonso XIII; Duke of Algeciras; Duke of Fernández-Miranda
On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.
Heraldic representation of the coronet of a Spanish lord. This is a list of the present and extant lords in the peerage of the Kingdom of Spain.
Coat of arms of the House of Zúñiga. The House of Zúñiga is a Spanish noble lineage who took their name from their domain. Various members of the family were distinguished in the service of the Spanish crown in Europe and the Americas as viceroys, governors, military, diplomats, writers and members of religious orders.