Juan Blázquez de Cáceres, the Conqueror of Cáceres, was a Spanish

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Life

Juan Blázquez de Cáceres was born in

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and was at the Conquest of Cáceres, on 23 April 1229, from which he took his surname. He was married to Teresa Alfón and had at least one son, Blazco Múñoz de Cáceres, who died at 90 years and lived in Cáceres in 1270, married to Pascuala Pérez, daughter of Pascual Pérez and wife Menga Marín, parents of Blazco Múñoz de Cáceres,

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and 1st Lord of the Majorat of the same name, and García Blázquez de Cáceres, who by one Marina Pérez had

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, 2nd

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of the

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de Blazco Múñoz. They were the ancestors of the Marqueses de

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(de Villavicencio del Cuervo, 13 May 1667).In 1751, the Expedient nr. 1,496 of ''Pruebas de Caballeros aspirantes a la Real Compañia de Guardias Mariñas y Colégio Naval'' testifies the legitimate male line of the then Marqués de Espinardo, from the Conqueror Juan Blázquez de Cáceres in 1229.

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*Cunha, Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e (1906–1998), ''Instrumentário Genealógico - Linhagens Milenárias''. MCMXCV, p. 312-3 *Instituto de Salazar y Castro, ''Elenco de Grandezas y Titulos Nobiliarios Españoles''. Various (periodic publication) {{DEFAULTSORT:Blazquez De Caceres, Juan Spanish untitled nobility 13th-century Castilian nobility