Coat of arms of Francisco de Paula of Bourbon and Escasany

Duke of Seville ( es, Duque de Sevilla) 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 was granted in 1823 by King

Ferdinand VII of Spain , house = Bourbon-Anjou , father = Charles IV of Spain , mother = Maria Luisa of Parma , birth_date = 14 October 1784 , birth_place = El Escorial, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Madrid, Spain , burial_plac ...

to his nephew, Infante Enrique of Spain. The Dukes of Seville are members of the Spanish branch of the

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, and they are also

Grandees of Spain Grandees of Spain ( es, 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 ...

. Since 22 October 1968, the holder of the ducal title has been ''

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Francisco de Borbón y Escasany, 5th Duke of Seville Francisco de Paula Enrique de Borbón y Escasany, 5th Duke of Seville, Grandee of Spain (born 16 November 1943), is the current Duke of Seville and a distant relative of the Spanish royal family.Enache, Nicolas. ''La Descendance de Marie-Therese ...

List of holders of the title

Sources

* Juan Martina Torres, ''The History of Spanish Nobility, 1500–present'' (Madrid 2009), for the: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (''translated title'')

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