Duke of Medina Sidonia ( es, Duque de Medina Sidonia) is a
peerage
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grandee
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title of
Spain
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, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, ...
in
Medina-Sidonia
Medina Sidonia is a city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. Considered by some to be the oldest city in Europe, it is used as a military defence location because of its elevation. ...
, holding the oldest
extant
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dukedom
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* Duchy, the territory ruled by a duke
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* ''Dukedom'' (game), a land management game
See also
* Lists of dukedoms
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in the kingdom, first awarded by King
John II of Castile
John II of Castile ( es, link=no, Juan; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405.
Regency
John was the ...
in 1380.
DE MEDINA, Pedro (b. 1503), ''Crónica de los Duques de Medina Sidonia por el Maestro Pedro de Medina''.
Manuscrito de 1561 en el Archivo de la Casa Ducal de Medinasidonia, leg. 1316. Colección de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de España no. XXXIX, 1932. Page 206. They were once the most prominent magnate
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family of the Andalusia
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n region, the best-known of whom, Don
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*Don (river), a river in European Russia
*Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name
*Don, Benin, a town in Benin
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Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia
Alonso is a Spanish name of Germanic origin that is a Castilian variant of ''Adalfuns''.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 36.6% of all known bearers of the surname ''Alonso'' were residents of Spain (frequency 1:222), 26.1% of Mexico (1:83 ...
, commanded the Spanish Armada
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at the end of the 16th century. The defeat at the hands of weather and the English in 1588 brought disgrace to this family. The House of Medina Sidonia
The House of Medina Sidonia (Spanish: ''Casa de Medina Sidonia'') is a Spanish noble house originating from the crown of Castile, whose name comes from the Duke of Medina Sidonia, a hereditary noble title that John II of Castile granted to ...
traces its descent from Alonso Pérez de Guzmán
Alonso Pérez de Guzmán (1256–1309), known as ''Guzmán el Bueno'' ("Guzmán the Good"), was a Spanish nobleman and hero of Spain during the medieval period, the founder of the line from which the dukes of Medina Sidonia descend.
Biography ...
.
Counts of Niebla, 1369–1445
Dukes of Medina Sidonia, 1445–present
See also
*Almadraba
Almadraba (from Andalusi Arabic ''almaḍraba,'' meaning 'the place to strike, also derived into pt, Almadrava) is an elaborate and ancient technique for trapping and catching Atlantic bluefin tuna (''Thunnus thynnus'') originally used by the Ph ...
– the concession on ''almadraba
Almadraba (from Andalusi Arabic ''almaḍraba,'' meaning 'the place to strike, also derived into pt, Almadrava) is an elaborate and ancient technique for trapping and catching Atlantic bluefin tuna (''Thunnus thynnus'') originally used by the Ph ...
s'' (tuna
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traps along the Mediterranean coast) was one of the sources of the fortune of the Medina Sidonias
* House of Olivares
* House of Guzmán
*House of Medina Sidonia
The House of Medina Sidonia (Spanish: ''Casa de Medina Sidonia'') is a Spanish noble house originating from the crown of Castile, whose name comes from the Duke of Medina Sidonia, a hereditary noble title that John II of Castile granted to ...
References
External links
Libro d'Oro della Nobilita Mediterranea
House of Medina Sidonia Foundation
(in Spanish)
* ttp://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft338nb1x6&brand=ucpress A Silent Minority: Deaf Education in Spain, 1550–1835
Library of Congress: Index to the Enciclopedia Heráldica Hispano-Americana of Alberto and Arturo García Carraffa
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Noble titles created in 1445