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Countship of Dehesa de Velayos
Creation date22 August 1709
Created byPhilip V
PeeragePeerage of Spain
First holderFernando de Torres y Messía, 1st Count of Velayos
Present holderÁlvaro de Figueroa y Domecq, 9th Count of Velayos[1]

Count of Dehesa de Velayos (Template:Lang-es), commonly known as Count of Velayos is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain, granted in 1709 by Philip V to Fernando de Torres, governor of Potosí in the Viceroyalty of Peru.[2]

At the death of the 5th count, the title became vacant until Alfonso XIII rehabilitated it on behalf of Luis de Figueroa y Alonso-Martínez, son of the Count of Romanones and a descendant of the last count.

Counts of Dehesa de Velayos

  1. Fernando de Torres y Messía, 1st Count of Velayos
  2. Miguel de Torres-Messía y Vivanco, 2nd Count of Velayos
  3. Carlos Fernando de Torres-Messía y Pérez-Manrique, 3rd Count of Velayos
  4. Juan Félix Tello de Guzmán y Torres-Messía, 4th Count of Velayos
  5. Juan Félix Tello de Guzmán y Ceballos, 5th Count of Velayos
  6. Luis de Figueroa y Alonso-Martínez, 6th Count of Velayos
  7. Luis de Figueroa y Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Count of Velayos
  8. Álvaro de Figueroa y Griffith, 8th Count of Velayos
  9. Álvaro de Figueroa y Domecq, 9th Count of Velayos

See also

References

  1. ^ Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) - 25 October 2005
  2. ^ Real Asociación de Hidalgos de España, Elenco de Grandezas y Títulos Nobiliarios Españoles, Ediciones Hidalguía, Vol. 50 (Madrid, 2018), p. 333
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