Andrés Fernández Pacheco, 10th Duke of Escalona explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Most Excellent
Andrés Fernández Pacheco
Honorific-Suffix:10th Duke of Escalona
Birth Name:Andrés María Hipólito Casiano José Antonio Cayetano Fernández Pacheco y Moscoso Acuña Silva Manrique Girón Portocarrero y Portugal
Birth Date:13 August 1710
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
Death Place:Madrid, Spain
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Office:Seat C of the Real Academia Española
Term Start:25 May 1726
Term End:27 June 1746
Predecessor:Alonso Rodríguez Castañón
Successor:Francisco Antonio de Angulo
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Office:Director of the Real Academia Española
Term Start:10 June 1738
Term End:27 June 1746
Predecessor:Mercurio López Pacheco
Successor:Juan López Pacheco

Andrés María Hipólito Casiano José Antonio Cayetano Fernández Pacheco y Moscoso Acuña Silva Manrique Girón Portocarrero y Portugal, twice Grandee of Spain, 10th Duke of Escalona, 10th Marquis of Villena, 16th Count of Castañeda, 12th Count of San Esteban de Gormaz and 10th Count of Xiquena (13 August 1710  - 27 June 1746), was a Spanish aristocrat and academician.

He was born and died in Madrid, the grandson and son of the 1st and 2nd Directors of the Royal Spanish Academy, respectively. Himself became a member at the age of 16, on 25 April 1726. He married Ana María de Toledo Portugal y Córdoba, 11th Countess of Oropesa in 1727, who gave him two daughters and died in 1729. He married for a second time with Isabel María Pacheco Téllez-Girón y Toledo in 1731. Fernández Pacheco became the 3rd lifetime Director of the Royal Spanish Academy at the death of his father in 1738 (aged 28).[1] He was promoted to be a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He died at the age of 36 in 1746.

He was succeeded as Duke of Escalona by his daughter María López Pacheco, who married her uncle and his brother, Juan López Pacheco.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andrés Fernández Pacheco - letra C. Real Academia Española. 26 May 2023. es.