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Following the approval of Law 33/2006, of 30 October, on the equality of men and women in the order of succession, Almudena, as the first-born daughter, became the main heir to the House of the Infantado, displacing her brother Íñigo, 20th Marquis of Tavara, who until a few years ago, as the first-born among men, was called to be the 20th Duke of the Infantado, and who died in 2012 in a ...
Duke of the Infantado (Spanish: Duque del Infantado) is a Spanish peerage title that was granted to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Figueroa, son of Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, on 22 July 1475.
Luisa de Mendoza, married the second son of the Duke of Lerma, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma. Their son Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza became the next Duke of the Infantado. María de Mendoza, married García Álvarez de Toledo, 6th Marquis of Villafranca and Duke of Fernandina. No issue.
As a member of the prestigious Mendoza family, Catalina was next in line to receive the Dukedom of the Infantado after the death of her brother, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza, the 7th Duke who was childless. The Dukedom had been in the hands of the Mendoza family since the very first duke, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Figueroa.
Born Diego de Sandoval y Rojas de la Cerda, [1] he was also referred to as Diego Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, [2] Gómez being his father's first surname. However, on marrying Countess Luisa de Mendoza, heiress of the Duchy of the Infantado, a binding clause in her family inheritance stated that, in order to perpetuate the family name of Mendoza, he was to adopt the name Diego Hurtado de ...
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Duke of the Infantado; Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado; Íñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza, 5th Duke of the Infantado; Ana de Mendoza y Enríquez de Cabrera, 6th Duchess of the Infantado; Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza, 7th Duke of the Infantado; Catalina Gómez de ...
Infante (Spanish:, Portuguese: [ĩˈfɐ̃tɨ]; f. infanta), also anglicised as "infant" or translated as "prince", is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to the sons and daughters (infantas) of the king, regardless of age, sometimes with the exception of the heir apparent or heir ...
[citation needed] The 6th Duchess of the Infantado was Ana de Mendoza, (1554 – 11 August 1633). [19] The 7th Duke was Gomez de Sandoval y Mendoza, grandson of the 6th Duchess. [citation needed] The 7th Duke's mother Luisa was a daughter of the 6th Duchess's first marriage, with another Mendoza—Rodrigo de Mendoza—from this complicated ...