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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)
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 ...
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
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 ...
A noble house is an aristocratic family or kinship group, either currently or historically of national or international significance [clarification needed], and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
The titles used by the last Habsburg king of Spain, Charles II, were: [5] [6]. By the Grace of God, King of Castile, of León, of Aragon, of the Two Sicilies, of Jerusalem, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, of Navarre, of Granada, of Toledo, of Valencia, of Galicia, of Mallorca, of Seville, of Sardinia, of Córdoba, of Corsica, of Murcia, of Jaén, of the Algarves, of Algeciras, of the Canary Islands ...
The Habsburg Philip II of Spain and his wife, the Tudor Mary I of England. Mary and Philip were first cousins once removed. Royal intermarriage is the practice of members of ruling dynasties marrying into other reigning families. It was more commonly done in the past as part of strategic diplomacy for national interest.