Spanish nobility
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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 on
Portrait of a Spanish nobleman, the 5th Duke of Alburquerque, Grandee of Spain, at the height of the Spanish Empire, 1560
Palacio de Liria in Madrid, home of the Dukes of Alba
Leonor, Princess of Asturias, heir presumptive to the Spanish throne
Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal, 18th Duke of Veragua
Grandee
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Grandee is an official aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish nobility. Holders of this dignity enjoyed similar privileges to those of the peerage of France during the Ancien Régime, though a "g
Spanish nobility
…dignity of grandees of Spain and of illustrious lords for others. The last privilege, suppressed in 1984, was the right to a diplomatic passport by the Grandees of Spain (Grandes de España). This privilege disappeared by Royal Decree 1023/1984. The titles without the rank of grandee of Spain never enjoyed this…
Equestrian portrait of Isabella II, her husband Francis, King Consort of Spain (left), and Infante Francisco de Paula (right) with the most important Spanish statesmen and army officers of the time, many of whom were grandees of Spain, by Charles Porion, 1862