Don

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 Antonio de Benavides y Fernández de Navarrete (Baeza

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, Spain

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, 20 June 1807 – Madrid

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, Spain

Spain

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, 23 January 1884) was a Spanish noble

Nobility

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, historian

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 and politician

Politician

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 who served as Minister of State between 1864 and 1865, in the reign of Queen Isabella II of Spain

Isabella II of Spain

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.

Benavides was the eldest son of Manuel de Benavides y Rodríguez-Zambrano, Major of the Hermandad

Hermandad

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 for the noble state

Estates of the realm

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 in 1808, and his wife Francisca de Paula Fernández de Navarrete y Motilla. Among other honors, he was Knight of Santiago

Order of Santiago

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 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

Sources

• Cadenas y Vicent, Vicente de, Knights of the Order of Santiago in the 19th Century. Madrid, Hidalguía, 1992.
• Antonio de Benavides. Geneall.net
• Personal dossier of D. Antonio de Benavide y Fernández de Navarrete. Spanish Senate

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