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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 ...
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (Juan Carlos Teresa Silverio Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg; 20 June 1913 – 1 April 1993), was a claimant to the Spanish throne as Juan III. [2] He was the third son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. His father was replaced by the Second Spanish ...
Juan Alonso de Guzmán y Suárez de Figueroa Orozco, 1st Duke of Medina Sidonia and 3rd Count de Niebla (in full, Spanish: Don Juan Alonso de Guzmán y Suárez de Figueroa Orozco, primer Duque de Medina Sidonia, tercer Conde de Niebla, Señor de Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Señor de Lepe, Ayamonte y Gibraltar, Adelantado Mayor de la Frontera de Andalucía) (c. 1405 – December 1468) was a Spanish ...
Juan Luis de la Cerda, 6th Duke of Medinaceli, Grandee of Spain, (in full, Spanish: Don Juan Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón, sexto duque de Medinaceli, quinto marqués de Cogolludo, quinto conde del Puerto de Santa María, Grande de España, señor de las villas de Deza y Enciso, caballero de la Orden del Toisón de Oro), (20 May 1569 – 24 November 1607) was a Spanish nobleman and ...
Juan de la Cerda, 5th Duke of Medinaceli (1544 – 29 May 1594), Grandee of Spain, (in full, Spanish: Don Juan Luis de la Cerda y Manuel de Portugal, quinto duque de Medinaceli, cuarto marqués de Cogolludo, cuarto conde del Puerto de Santa María, Grande de España, señor de las villas de Deza y Enciso, embajador extraordinario en Portugal, caballero de la Orden del Toisón de Oro, Order of ...
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).
Juan Vélaz de Medrano y Mauleon y Navarra (b. 16th century, Igúzquiza) was a lord, nobleman and knight from the House of Medrano.Juan was the owner of the Palace of Vélaz de Medrano and the hereditary lord of Igúzquiza, Agos, Aguinano, Orendain, Zabala, Arroniz, and 5th lord of Learza [1] during the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.