Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — Spanish Grandees. [ARTICLE]

Spanish Grandees.

In Spuin the Crown gets a goodly fee from the heir who succeeds to a grandeeship on the death of his father or a relative, and this fee for each title that comforts the rights of a grandee, though they are held by only one person. There are Spanish nobles who possess from ten to thirty titles, only a few of which generally have a grandee's privilgees in the original grant. The late Duke of Frias was fourteen times a grandee, the Duke of Pastruna eleven times, the Duke of Medina Sidonia nine times, the Duke of Medina Cmli is a grandee in vlrture of no less than eight dukedoms, five marquisntes, several earldoms and lesser titles. In Spain women inherit titles of all sorts and first-class grandeeships. When a Spanish peer leaves no sons his daughters in tail succeed to the estates and titles, and carry them into other families. The consorts of these peeresses are allowed to use the titles of their wives.—[London News.