Duke of Medina Sidonia

Dukedom of Spain

Duke of Medina Sidonia (Spanish: Duque de Medina Sidonia) is a peerage grandee title of Spain in Medina-Sidonia, holding the oldest extant dukedom in the kingdom, first awarded by King John I of Castile in 1380.^[2] They were once the most prominent magnate 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 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.

Counts of Niebla, 1369–1445

Dukes of Medina Sidonia, 1445–present

The facade of the palace of the Duke of Medina-Sidonia

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

1. [1] BOE
2. 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.

External links

• Libro d'Oro della Nobilita Mediterranea (in Italian)
• Grandes de Espana (in Spanish)
• House of Medina Sidonia Foundation (in Spanish)
• List of Arabic and Spanish names for Iberian cities and places
• 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