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The Spanish royal family constitutes the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon (Spanish: Casa de Borbón), also known as the House of Bourbon-Anjou (Spanish: Casa de Borbón-Anjou). The royal family is headed by King Felipe VI and currently consists of the King; Queen Letizia ; their children, Leonor, Princess of Asturias , and Infanta Sofía ...
The Spanish House of Bourbon (rendered in Spanish as Borbón) has been overthrown and restored several times, reigning 1700–1808, 1813–1868, 1875–1931, and since 1975. Bourbons ruled in Naples from 1734 to 1806 and in Sicily from 1735 to 1816, and in a unified Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 1816 to 1861.
of Bourbon 1673–1743: Marie Thérèse de Bourbon 1666–1732: François Louis Grand Conti Prince of Conti 1664–1709 r. 1685–1709: Louis Armand I Prince of Conti 1661–1685 r. 1666–1685: Marie Anne de Bourbon 1666–1739: Louis IV Henri Prince de Condé 1692–1740 r. 1710–1740: Marie Anne de Bourbon 1689–1720: Louise Élisabeth de ...
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).
The largest number of Novohispanic noble titles were created in the eighteenth century under the Spanish Bourbon monarchs and were added to by an influx of foreign nobles to Mexico. The noble titles of New Spain were: Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1529); Hernán Cortés and descendants
The House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies is a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon that ruled Southern Italy and Sicily for more than a century in the 18th and 19th centuries. It descends from the Capetian dynasty in legitimate male line through Philip, Duke of Anjou (later Philip V of Spain), a younger grandson of Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) who established the Bourbon dynasty in Spain in 1700 ...
The coat of arms of Spain represents Spain and the Spanish nation, including its national sovereignty and the country's form of government, a constitutional monarchy.It appears on the flag of Spain and it is used by the Government of Spain, the Cortes Generales, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and other state institutions.
Once they consolidated rule in Spain, the Bourbon monarchs embarked upon a series of reforms to revitalize the Spanish empire, which had significantly declined in power in the late Habsburg era. The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment had a strong impact in Spain and a ripple effect in Spanish American Enlightenment in Spain's overseas empire.