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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 following is the family tree of the Spanish monarchs starting from Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon till the present day. The former kingdoms of Aragon (see family tree), Castile (see family tree) and Navarre (see family tree) were independent kingdoms that unified in 1469 as personal union, with the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs, to become the Kingdom of Spain (de ...
Dame Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III (10 May 1962) [10] Dame of the Royal Order of Queen Maria Luisa (1,193rd lady; 14 May 1962) Dame of the Collar of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III (31 October 1983) [11] Leonor, Princess of Asturias. Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (30 October 2015) [12]
Members of the royal family were routinely voted among the most respected public figures in Spain, [51] and in 2010 as many as 75% of Spanish citizens ranked the monarchy as "above any other public institution in the country", according to Juan Díez-Nicolás, a former president of the CIS and founder of the private consulting firm ASEP ...
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.
Vargas – 427,854 – From Spanish and Portuguese, from various places called Vargas, meaning variously "thatched hut", "steep slope", or "fenced pastureland which becomes waterlogged in winter". [3] Castro – 419,216 – Meaning "village" especially the “hill forts” of the Galician area; Méndez – 410,239 – Son of Mendo
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This family tree shows some of Ferdinand and Isabella's descendants (mainly the Spanish Habsburgs, some Austrian Habsburg and Louis XIII and XIV of France are also present). Ferdinand II of Aragon's marriage to Isabella I of Castile produced seven children, five of whom survived birth and lived to adulthood. They arranged strategic political ...