Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
Antonio de Benavides | |
Birth Name: | Antonio de Benavides y Fernández de Navarrete |
Birth Date: | 20 June 1807 |
Birth Place: | Baeza, Spain |
Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Office: | Minister of State |
Primeminister: | Ramón María Narváez |
Term Start: | 8 June 1865 |
Term End: | 21 June 1865 |
Predecessor: | Alejandro Llorente |
Successor: | Lorenzo Arrazola |
Office2: | Seat C of the Real Academia Española |
Term Start2: | 24 November 1872 |
Term End2: | 23 January 1884 |
Predecessor2: | Luis González Bravo |
Successor2: | Cristino Martos y Balbí |
Antonio de Benavides y Fernández de Navarrete (20 June 1807, in Baeza, Spain – 23 January 1884, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish noble, historian and politician who served as Minister of State between 1864 and 1865, in the reign of Queen Isabella II of Spain.
Benavides was the eldest son of Manuel de Benavides y Rodríguez-Zambrano, Major of the Hermandad for the noble state in 1808, and his wife Francisca de Paula Fernández de Navarrete y Motilla. Among other honors, he was Knight of Santiago and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.[1]
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