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Marquess Of Carpio
Marquess of Carpio () is a hereditary title in the Spanish nobility, Peerage of Spain accompanied by the dignity of Grandee, granted in 1559 by Philip II of Spain, Philip II to Diego López de Haro y Sotomayor, Diego López de Haro, Lord of El Carpio, Carpio, ''veintiquatro'' and first chief of the Royal Stables of Córdoba. The title holds dominion and lordship over what is roughly the area of El Carpio in the area of Andalucía, Province of Córdoba (Spain), Province of Córdoba, and was at times also tied to the Señorios of Lubrín, Lobrín and Sorbas, Sorbes. The title lends its name to the House of Carpio. History The Marquessate of Carpio has its origins in the Señorio del Castillo de Carpio which was founded in 1325 by García Méndez de Sotomayor. The Marquesado del Carpio was originally tied to the title of a Grandes de España, Grande de España granted by King Philip II of Spain in 1559. The title was bestowed upon Diego Lopez de Haro y Sotomayor on 20 January 1 ...
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COA Marquis Of Carpio
COA or CoA may refer to: Organizations * Andorran Olympic Committee (Catalan: ''Comitè Olímpic Andorrà'') * Argentine Olympic Committee (Spanish: ''Comité Olímpico Argentino'') * Aruban Olympic Committee (Papiamento: ''Comité Olímpico Arubano'') * Canadian Osteopathic Association, a professional association of osteopathic physicians in Canada * Chicago Options Associates, an American company that specializes in trading options and futures contracts * Clowns of America International, an American organization that represents clowns * Committee of Administrators (CoA), oversaw the reform in 2017 of the Board of Control for Cricket in India * Council of Agriculture, agriculture-related institution in Taiwan * Council of Architecture, an Indian governmental organization that registers architects in the country * Community Oncology Alliance, an American non-profit that advocates for independent, community oncology providers and patients. * Continental Airlines, by ICAO airline cod ...
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Real Academia De La Historia
The Royal Academy of History (, RAH) is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the different branches of life, of civilisation, and of the culture of the Spanish people". Spanish people in this regard are understood to be citizens of the Kingdom of Spain or the indigenous people of its predecessors, or their descendants. The academy was established by royal decree of Philip V of Spain on 18 April 1738. Its official publication is the '' Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia''. Building Since 1836 the academy has occupied an 18th-century building designed by the neoclassical architect Juan de Villanueva. The building was originally occupied by the Hieronymites, a religious order. It became available as a result of legislation in the 1830s confiscating monastic properties (the ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal). Collections As former ...
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Marquesses Of Spain
A marquess (; ) is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German-language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) of a marquess is a marchioness () or marquise (). These titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan. Etymology The word ''marquess'' entered the English language from the Old French ("ruler of a border area") in the late 13th or early 14th century. The French word was derived from ("frontier"), itself descended from the Middle Latin ("frontier"), from which the modern English word ''March (territory), march'' also descends. The distinction between governors of frontier territories and interior territories was made as early as the founding of the Roman Empire when some provinces were set aside for administration by the senate and more unpacified or vulnerable provinces were adm ...
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List Of Current Grandees Of Spain
Grandees of Spain () are the highest-ranking members of the Spanish nobility. They comprise nobles who hold the most important historical landed titles in Spain or its Spanish Empire, former colonies. Many such hereditary titles are held by extended family, heads of families, having been acquired via strategic marriages between landed families. All grandees, of which there were originally three ranks, are now deemed to be of equal status (''i.e. "of the first class"''); this dignity, designation is nowadays Title of honor, titular, conveying neither power nor legal privileges. A ''grandeza'' (Grandee of Spain, grandeeship) can be held regardless of possession of a title of nobility, however each ''grandeza'' was normally (although not always) granted in conjunction with a noble title. With the exception of Duke of Fernandina, Fernandina, grandezas have been granted with all List of dukes in the peerage of Spain, Spanish ducal titles. Grandees, their consorts and first-born heirs ...
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Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess Of Alba
María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 18th Duchess of Alba Grandee, GE (28 March 1926 – 20 November 2014) was one of the most senior aristocrats in Spain, as well as the most titled aristocrat in the world, a record now held by Princess Victoria of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 20th Duchess of Medinaceli. Family Born in Liria Palace in Madrid on 28 March 1926, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart was the only child of the Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, 17th Duke of Alba (a prominent Spanish politician and diplomat during the 1930s and 1940s) and his wife, María del Rosario de Silva, Duchess of Alba, María del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, 9th Marchioness of San Vicente del Barco. She was the eighth great-granddaughter of James II of England, James II and VII. Her godparents were Queen Victoria Eugenie and Alfonso XIII of Spain, King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Socialite As a socialite, the Duchess met famous VIPs from Spain and abroad. Jackie Kennedy visited her ...
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Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke Of Alba
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 17th Duke of Alba, 10th Duke of Berwick, GE, LH, GCVO (17 October 1878 – 24 September 1953) was a Spanish peer, diplomat, politician, art collector and Olympic medalist. He was one of the most important aristocrats of his time and held, among other titles, the dukedoms of Alba de Tormes and Berwick, the Countship of Lemos, Lerín, Montijo and the Marquessate of Carpio. He was granted the Order of the Golden Fleece of Spain in 1926. A close friend and relative of the British royal family, he was one of the leading guests at the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II in 1947. Family The Duke was born on 17 October 1878 in Palace of Liria in Madrid, the first son of Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba and María del Rosario Falcó, 21st Countess of Siruela. Don Jacobo was baptised only a few days after with the name "Santiago", a variant of Jacobo. His godparents were his paternal grandfather, Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 15th ...
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Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke Of Alba
Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart y Palafox, 16th Duke of Alba, 9th Duke of Berwick GE (December 4, 1849 – October 15, 1901) was a Spanish nobleman and diplomat, who held, amongst others, the Dukedom of Alba and Berwick. Biography He was born at Madrid, the only son of Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 15th Duke of Alba. His mother María Francisca was the daughter of Cipriano de Palafox y Portocarrero, Duke of Peñaranda, and sister of Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of the French. During his father's lifetime he was styled Duke of Huéscar. On 16 September 1860 he succeeded his mother in all her titles except the Marquisate of the Bañeza and the Viscountcy of Palacios de la Valduerna, and on 10 July 1881 he succeeded to all his father's titles except the Dukedom of Galisteo, which went to his sister María de la Asuncíon Rosalía, 18th Duchess of Galisteo. As a result of this inheritance the Duke of Alba was a Grandee of the first class twelve times over. As heir-male ...
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Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 15th Duke Of Alba
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Ventimiglia, 15th Duke of Alba, GE (3 June 1821, Palermo, Sicily – 10 July 1881, Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish nobleman. He was a brother-in-law of Napoleon III through his wife, sister of Empress Eugenie. Biography He was the son of Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Alba and Rosalia Ventimiglia dei Principi di Grammonte. He married at Madrid, on 14 February 1848 María Francisca Portocarrero-Palafox y KirkPatrick, 12ª Duchess of Peñaranda de Duero and daughter of Cipriano de Palafox y Portocarrero. They had three children: *Carlos Maria Fitz-James Stuart y Portocarrero-Palafox, 16th Duke of Alba, a.k.a. Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba, born 4 December 1848. *María de la Asuncion Fitz-James-Stuart y Portocarrero-Palafox, 3rd Duchess of Galisteo, born 17 August 1851. *María Luisa Fitz-James Stuart y Portocarrero-Palafox, 19ª Duchess of Montoroso, born 19 October 1853. Titles, styles, honours and arms ...
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Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke Of Alba
Carlos Miguel Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, 14th Duke of Alba, GE (19 May 1794 – 7 October 1835) was a Spanish aristocrat. Biography Born in Madrid, Spain, in 1794, he was a descendant of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick and through him, the exiled King James II of England & VII of Scotland. He was the second surviving son of the 5th Duke of Berwick and inherited that family's titles on his elder brother the 6th Duke's death in 1795. He was also a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece of Spain. In 1819, he married the Italian noblewoman Rosalia Ventimiglia di Grammonte y Moncada (Palermo, 1798–1868). from the Ventimiglia, Princes of Grammonte, in Palermo. He became the 14th Duke of Alba in 1802 following the death of the childless 13th Duchess of Alba — he thus became a Grandee of Spain on ten counts. They had three children : * Jacopo Fitz-James Stuart y Ventimiglia, Palermo, Italy, (1821–1881) who married in 1844 with Maria Francisca Portocarrero Palafox ...
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María Cayetana De Silva, 13th Duchess Of Alba
María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva y Silva-Bazán, 13th Duchess of Alba, Grandee of Spain, GE (10 June 1762 – 23 July 1802), was a Spanish aristocrat and a popular subject of the painter Francisco de Goya. Biography María Teresa, as she was called in her family, became the 13th Duke of Alba, Duchess of Alba in 1776 after inheriting the title from her paternal grandfather, Fernando de Silva, 12th Duke of Alba, who outlived her father. Her marriage the year before to José Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, José Álvarez de Toledo Osorio, 11th Marquess of Villafranca (a male-line descendant of Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba), made her and her husband the wealthiest couple in the Kingdom of Spain. Their only rivals to this status were the Duke of Osuna, House of Osuna. The duchess' relationship with famed Spanish painter Francisco de Goya and her somewhat eccentric personality have contributed greatly to a continuing interest in her life during the two ce ...
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Fernando De Silva, 12th Duke Of Alba
Fernando de Silva y Álvarez de Toledo, 12th Duke of Alba (27 October 1714 – 15 November 1776), was a Spanish politician and general who was Prime Minister of Spain in 1754.in full, Biography Better known as the ''Duke of Huéscar'', Fernando de Silva was a man of the Enlightenment and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He was Spanish ambassador to France between 1746 and 1749. On 8 November 1753 he was appointed Mayordomo mayor and chief of the Royal Household and, on 9 April 1754 he was made director of the Real Academia Española, a function he held until his death in 1776. He was also Chief Minister of Spain between 9 April and 15 May 1754. As Duke of Alba, he was succeeded by his granddaughter María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, who was a friend of Francisco de Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the lat ...
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