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Heraldic representation of the coronet of a Spanish duke. This is a list of the 149 present and extant royal and non-royal dukes in the peerage of the Kingdom of Spain.. The oldest six titles – created between 1380 and 1476 – were Duke of Medina Sidonia (1380), Duke of Alburquerque (1464), Duke of Segorbe (1469), Duke of Alba (1472), Duke of Escalona (1472), and Duke of Infantado (1475).
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 ...
This is a list of the women who were queens as wives of Spanish monarchs from the 16th Century, when Spain was unified, until present. Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz is the only King Consort, as the husband of Queen Isabella II.
A. Duke of Abrantes (1642) Duke of Alba; Duke of Alburquerque; Duke of Alcalá de los Gazules; Duke of la Alcudia; Duke of Algeciras; Duke of Fernández-Miranda
Pages in category "Dukes of Spain" The following 87 pages are in this category, out of 87 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images. Queen Letizia, aka Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, is the wife of King Felipe VI of Spain. After marrying her husband (formerly Prince Felipe of Asturias) in May 2004, she ...
Duchess of Badajoz, named after the city of Badajoz in Extremadura, was a substantive title.It was created on 17 April 1967 by King Juan Carlos I, for his sister, the Infanta Pilar, on the occasion of her marriage to Luis Gómez-Acebo in 1967.