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Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor, ennobled (Emirate of Afghanistan) Alice Heine, Princess of Monaco, by marriage (Monaco) Paul Ilyinsky, by birth (Russia) Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, by marriage (Monaco) Lee Radziwill, by marriage (Holy Roman Empire) May Stewart, Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark, by marriage (Kingdom of Greece)
On 25 September 1493, Christopher Columbus set sail on his second voyage with 17 ships and 1,200–1,500 men from Cádiz, Spain. [4] On 19 November 1493 he landed on the island, naming it San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist. The first Spanish settlement, Caparra, was founded on 8 August 1508 by Juan Ponce de León, a lieutenant ...
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 ...
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.
List of Americans who married international nobility; United Empire Loyalist (American royalists) those 13 Colonies Colonials who disagreed with the Declaration of Independence; Loyalist (American Revolution), those 13 Colonies Colonials who sided with the King during the American Revolutionary War; Canadian royalty
t. e. The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization ...
Survivors continued to travel among indigenous groups in the North American south and southwest until 1536. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was one of four survivors of that expedition, writing an account of it. [53] The crown later sent him to Asunción, Paraguay to be adelantado there. Expeditions continued to explore territories in hopes of ...
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.