Duke of Medina Sidonia ( es, Duque de Medina Sidonia) is a
peerage
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grandee
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title of
Spain in
Medina-Sidonia, holding the oldest
extant
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dukedom in the kingdom, first awarded by King
John II of Castile 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
The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...
family of the Andalusian region, the best-known of whom, Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, commanded the Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (a.k.a. the Enterprise of England, es, Grande y Felicísima Armada, links=no, lit=Great and Most Fortunate Navy) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aris ...
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 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 ...
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Counts of Niebla, 1369–1445
Dukes of Medina Sidonia, 1445–present
See also
* Almadraba – the concession on '' almadrabas'' ( tuna 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
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