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House of Cotoner. House of Fuenmayor. House of Luzárraga. House of Medina Sidonia. House of Méndez de Sotomayor. House of Mendoza. House of Narro. House of Olaso. House of Olivares.
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.
The ordinary Spanish nobility is divided into six ranks. From highest to lowest, these are: duque (duke), marqués (marquess), conde (count), vizconde (viscount), barón (baron), and señor (lord) (as well as the feminine forms of these titles). Nobility descends from the first man of a family who was raised to the nobility (or recognized as ...
Count of la Mejorada. Marquess of Merry del Val. List of Spanish monarchs. Duke of Montalto (title) Duke of Montalto (defunct) Duke of Montellano. Count of Montijo. Duke of Montoro. Marquess of Moratalla.
The coat of arms of the Spanish Crown. The current Spanish constitution refers to the monarchy as "The Crown" and the constitutional title of the monarch is simply rey/reina de España: [1] that is, "king/queen of Spain". However, the constitution allows for the use of other historic titles pertaining to the Spanish monarchy, [1] without ...
Caamaño, Ozores. Lord of Higuera de Vargas. 1390. Manuel Falcó y Anchorena [4] Vargas, Silva, Sotomayor, Gutiérrez de los Ríos, Osorio, Falcó. Lord of Sonseca. 1650. Santiago García y Boscá [5] Acosta.
House of Borgia. The House of Borgia (/ ˈbɔːr (d) ʒə / BOR-zhə, BOR-jə; [2][3][4] Italian: [ˈbɔrdʒa]; Spanish and Aragonese: Borja [ˈboɾxa]; Valencian: Borja [ˈbɔɾdʒa]) was a Spanish noble family, which rose to prominence during the Italian Renaissance. [5] They were from Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, the surname being a ...
House of Quiñones. The House of Quiñones (Casa de Quiñones) is an old and noble Spanish family that emerged in Castile and León in the 12th century and became one of the most prominent dynasties of the Spanish kingdom until the 20th century. The original family gave rise to several branches, one of which became Conts of Luna from the 15th ...