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unusual facts about king of Spain



45 Grupo de Fuerzas Aéreas

The Grupo 45 del Ejército del Aire (45 Air Force Group), is a unit of the Spanish Air Force in charge of the transportation of the King, the Prime Minister, high ranking government officials and the Royal Family.

Acoma Massacre

In the late 1500s, the Spanish began their conquest of the Pueblo people in northern New Spain and in 1595 the conquistador Don Juan de Oñate was granted permission from King Philip II to colonize Santa Fé de Nuevo México, the present-day New Mexico.

Casimir Zeglen

It saved the life Alfonso XIII, the King of Spain - his carriage was covered with Szczepanik's bulletproof armour when a bomb exploded near it.

Code of Euric

The Codex Euricianus or Code of Euric was a collection of laws governing the Visigoths compiled at the order of Euric, King of Spain, sometime before 480, probably at Toulouse (possible at Arles); it is one of the earliest examples of early Germanic law.

Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece

The present Grand Master of the Austrian order is Karl von Habsburg; that of the Spanish order is the King of Spain.

Henry Wikoff

He was friendly with the Bonaparte royal family in France, and was awarded the honor of Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, by the King of Spain in 1871, which gave him the title of "Chevalier".

Hermann Biggs

He was appointed medical director of the General League of Red Cross Societies at Geneva in 1920 and was knighted by the King of Spain for services in preventive medicine.

Maria Rosa Calvo-Manzano

She has also been recognized with numerous national and international prizes and decorated by the King of Spain with "El Lazo de Isabel la Católica" and "La Encomienda de Alfonso X el Sabio".

Marquess of Saint Philip

Marquess of Saint Philip, also spelled as Marquis of Saint Philip or St. Philip (in Spanish: Marqués de San Felipe; in Italian: Marchese di San Filippo) is a title granted in 1709 by Philip V, king of Spain and, at that time, claimant king of Sardinia, to the Sardinian nobleman and politician Vicente Bacallar.

Pierre Charles Cior

He was a pupil of Bauzin, and became miniature painter to the king of Spain.

Pietro Paolo Floriani

Besides fortifications built in Italy and in Northern Europe for Pope Urban VIII, the King of Spain and the emperor Ferdinand II, he also designed the fortification walls on the south side of Valletta, the capital city of Malta.

Pilar, New Mexico

In February 1793 the region was taken possession of by 20 persons who had received it as a land grant (Cieneguilla Grant) from the King of Spain Charles IV through his military governor in New Mexico, Don Fernando Chacón.

Presidential Mansion, Athens

Another extension was needed when Princess Sophia of Greece (now queen of Spain, and daughter of King Paul and Queen Frederika) became engaged to His Royal Highness The Prince Juan Carlos of Spain (now His Majesty The King of Spain).

Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate

The Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate was established on a bluff overlooking the San Pedro River by an Irish-born Spanish Army Colonel, Hugo Oconór (Hugh O'Conor), in 1775, for the King of Spain Charles III.


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Allied Arts Guild

A king of Spain, probably Charles IV, ceded the property to Don Jose Arguello, commander of the Presidio of San Francisco.

Cathedral of San Fernando

The baptismal font, believed to be a gift from Charles III, who became King of Spain from 1759, is the oldest piece of liturgical furnishing in the cathedral.

Cæsar Clement

Though originally destined for the English mission, Clement never went to England, but held the major positions of Dean of St. Gudule's, Brussels, and Vicar general of the King of Spain's army in Flanders.

Charolles

Ultimately passing to the Spanish kings, it became for a considerable period an object of dispute between France and Spain, until at length in 1684 it was assigned to the great Condé, a creditor of the king of Spain.

Cuarteto Casals

The quartet has accompanied the King of Spain on diplomatic visits and performed on the peerless collection of decorated Stradivarius instruments in the Royal Palace in Madrid.

Ferdinand of Aragon

Ferdinand II of Aragon, who married Isabella of Castile to become king of Spain, (1452–1516)

Francisco de Eliza

The King of Spain, Carlos IV, issued the Royal Order of April 14, 1789, requiring the establishment at Nootka Sound be maintained with "honour and firmness".

Francisco Hernández

Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514–1587), naturalist and court physician to the King of Spain

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle

Vasari mentions that the commissioner, duke Federico II Gonzaga, wanted to donate the works to emperor and King of Spain Charles V: the fact that the other two works, the Ganymede and Jupiter and Io, were in Spain during the 16th century implies that they were part of the same series.

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés

At one point he was placed in charge of the Fortaleza Ozama, the famous fort in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where there is a large statue of him, a gift to that country from a King of Spain.

Juanito Oiarzabal

In recognition of his sports achievements, he has been officially received by outstanding officials and personalities: The Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council, Diputación Foral de Álava, the Lehendakari (Basque President), the former Spanish prime Minister (Aznar) and the King of Spain, Juan Carlos de Borbón.

King Joseph

Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples between 1806 and 1808, and subsequently King of Spain till 1813 and titular Emperor of the French in the Bonapartist line

Le chevalier d'Harmental

The story concerns the conspiracy of the Prince of Cellamare, the Spanish ambassador, an envoy of Alberoni, who is at the heart of a plot involving the Duke and Duchess of Maine, which aims to capture the royal regent at a party, then gather together the Etats-Généraux and confer the regency on the King of Spain, Philippe V.

Mailu Island

All the nearby land including the coast of New Guinea was called by the Spaniards Magna Margarita to honour the wife of the king of Spain at that time Philip III, Margaret of Austria.

Nóos case

Cristina de Borbón y Grecia, Infanta of Spain (born on 13 June 1965), daughter of the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I.

Oath of office

In an inauguration ceremony a new Spanish Prime Minister takes an oath of office over an open Constitution next to the Holy Bible and before the King of Spain and other dignitaries.

Pedro Bravo de Acuña

Some years before this the king of Spain had ordered an expedition be sent from Portuguese India for the capture of the fort of Terrenate in the Moluccas.

Philip VII

Philip III of Spain and VII of Burgundy, (1578 – 1621), King of Spain, Portugal and the Algarves

San Carlos, Uruguay

Its name is originated from that of the King of Spain at the time, Charles III.

Sir Thomas Copley

He was in constant correspondence with William Cecil and other ministers, and sometimes with the queen herself, desiring pardon and permission to return to England and to enjoy his estates; but at the same time he was acting as the leader of the English expatriate Catholics, and sometimes was in the service of the king of Spain, from whom he had a pension, and by whom he was created baron of Gatton and grand master of the Maze.

Tailtiu

According to the Book of Invasions, Tailtiu was the daughter of the king of Spain and the wife of Eochaid mac Eirc, last Fir Bolg High King of Ireland, who named his capital after her (Telltown, between Navan and Kells).

U.S. Route 61

The original Spanish name el camino real was conferred by Colonel George Morgan in honor of Charles IV of Spain, the reigning King of Spain (1788-1808).

Vayres, Gironde

Ogier de Gourge commissioned a well-known architect, Louis de Foix, who was building the Cordouan lighthouse and had worked for a few years for the king of Spain Philip II.

Working cow horse

The King of Spain granted large tracts of land to loyal subjects, which were the basis for the "Californio" ranches and lifestyle common until the mid-19th century (and whose eventual owners were the source of the names of many California communities, including Irvine and Pacheco).