Antonio de Benavides y Fernández de Navarrete explained

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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Antonio Benavides - letra C. Real Academia Española. es. 27 May 2023.