Duke of Mandas y Villanueva ( es, Duque de Mandas y Villanueva), commonly known as Duke of Mandas, is a title of

Spanish nobility Spanish nobles are persons who possess the legal status of hereditary nobility according to the laws and traditions of the Spanish monarchy and historically also those who held personal nobility as bestowed by one of the three highest orders of ...

that is accompanied by the dignity of

Grandee of Spain Grandee (; es, Grande de España, ) 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 , though in neither country did they ha ...

. It was granted along with the Marquessate of Terranova to Pedro Maza de Lizana on 23 December 1614 by king Philip III. Pedro Maza de Lizana was the son of Baltasar Maza de Lizana, lord of Castalla and Ayora in

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, fief of Mandas in

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

, and of Francisca Hurtado de Mendoza, daughter of

Luis Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd Marquess of Mondéjar Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco, 2nd Marquess of Mondéjar (born 1489 in Mondejar, Guadalajara, Spain; died 19 December 1566) was a Spanish nobleman. He was the son of Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, second Count of Tendilla (born Guad ...

, and Catalina de Mendoza, of the Counts of Monteagudo. He descended from the male line of the Ladrón de Vilanova (or Pallás) family, Viscounts of Chelva and Counts of Sinarcas, but his father adopted the last name Maza de Lizana, of which he had no ancestry, as a testamentary condition of Brianda Maza y Carroz, a distant relative of him, who designated him as the universal heir of her vast assets. As the 12th Duke died childless, the dukedom became vacant for 2 years until it was rehabilitated in 1884 by Alfonso XII in favour of the 12th Duke's niece, María Cristina Fernanda Brunetti y Gayoso de los Cobos, 18th Countess of Belalcázar and sister of the

Duke of Arcos Duke of Arcos ( es, Duque de Arcos) is an hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, granted by Isabella I in 1493 to Rodrigo Ponce de León, then 4th Count of Arcos. The dukedom is among the first 25 titles which reached the rank of Grandee of ...

. The name of the title makes reference to the Sardinian municipality of Mandas, and most likely to the nearby town of Villanova (Villanueva), both belonging to the province of

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. Although the second part of the denomination also seems to allude to one of the first holder's maternal surnames, it also might borrow it from the eponymous town in

Benagéber Benagéber is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Los Serranos in the Valencian Community, Spain. See also *Sierra de Utiel Sierra de Utiel ( ca-valencia, Serra d'Utiel) is a long mountain range in the Alt Palància, Alt Millars and Plana B ...

, which was the manor of the Ladrón de Pallás family, Lords of Benagéber and Counts of Sinarcas. Jauregia Cristina enean

Dukes of Mandas y Villanueva (1614)

* Pedro Maza de Lizana y Carroz, 1st Duke of Mandas (d. 1617) * Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd Duke of Mandas (d. 1624), first cousin of the 1st Duke * Ana de Mendoza, 3rd Duchess of Mandas (1598-1628), daughter of the 2nd Duke * Alfonso López de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Mendoza, 4th Duke of Mandas (d. 1660), son of the 3rd Duchess * Juan Manuel López de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Mendoza, 5th Duke of Mandas (1620-1660), brother of the 4th Duke * Manuel Diego López de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Sarmiento, 6th Duke of Mandas (1657-1686), son of the 5th Duke * Juan Manuel López de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Castro 7th Duke of Mandas (1680-1747), son of the 6th Duke * Joaquín Diego López de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Castro, 8th Duke of Mandas (1715-1777), son of the 7th Duke * María Josefa Pimentel y Téllez-Girón, 9th Duchess of Mandas (1750-1834), great-great-granddaughter of the 5th Duke * Pedro de Alcántara Tellez-Giron y Beaufort-Spontin, 10th Duke of Mandas (1810-1844), grandson of the 9th Duchess

Dukes of Mandas y Villanueva (1884)

* María Cristina Brunetti y Gayoso de los Cobos, 11th Duchess of Mandas (1831-1914), great-granddaughter of the 7th Duke * María Rafaela Fernández de Henestrosa y Gayoso de los Cobos, 12th Duchess of Mandas (1882-1979), great-granddaughter of the 8th Duke * Ignacio de la Huerta y Fernández de Henestrosa, 13th Duke of Mandas (1913-2001), son of the 12th Duchess * Inigo de la Huerta y Ozores, 14th Duke of Mandas (b. 1944), son of the 13th Duke.Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía, ''Anales'', Vol. 1 (Madrid, 1991), p. 126
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