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    Felipe to Galicia as Adelantado Mayor; he would later be granted the title of Pertigueiro Maior, or first minister and commander of the Terra de Santiago...
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  • of King Alfonso IX of León He was Adelantado (governor) of the Andalusian frontier and Galicia, and Mayordomo mayor (high steward} to King Ferdinand IV...
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    the borders of León and Galicia. His mother was the Lady de Badajoz, and his father was the hidalgo (nobleman), Nuño Arias de Balboa. Little is known...
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    steward) of Alfonso XI of Castile, adelantado de la frontera (governor) of Andalusia, Galicia and Murcia and pertiguero mayor (a title similar to the French...
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  • Vázquez de Soverosa (died c. 1240) was a member of the nobility of the Kingdom of Portugal, of the Soverosa lineage which had its origins in Galicia. He appears...
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    close associates, a regidor or city councilman by the adelantado Francisco de Montejo y Álvarez de Tejeda. The following year his father (his mother already...
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    Los adelantados mayores de la frontera o Andalucía (Siglos XIII-XIV). Colección Historia: Serie 1, n.58. Camas: Diputación de Sevilla: Área de Cultura...
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    Villena, adelantado mayor of Murcia and Lord of Villena, the most prosperous nobleman of the realm. In 1351, the King took counsel from Juan Alfonso de Alburquerque...
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  • things, Lord of Lemos and Sarria, pertiguero mayor of Santiago de Compostela, Adelantado Mayor of Galicia and Comendero of the church of Lugo. Violante...
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  • de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León y Consejería de Cultura y Turismo de la Junta de Castilla y León (ed.), Los adelantados y merinos mayores de...
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    Pedro Muñiz de Godoy, master of the orders of Santiago and Calatrava, Adelantado-Mayor and Capitán-General of the border with Portugal, who distinguished...
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    Alfonso X Alfonso García de Villamayor (before 1226 – c. 1292), served as mayordomo mayor to King Alfonso X and adelantado mayor of Andalusia, and married...
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    Havana (redirect from Ciudad de la Habana)
    cuando en la década de 1980 los estudios de geología y finanzas realizados por especialistas cubanos y soviéticos iban muy adelantados. Conner Gorry; David...
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    Cabeza de Vaca was one of four survivors of that expedition, writing an account of it. The crown later sent him to Asunción, Paraguay to be adelantado there...
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    Juan Núñez II de Lara, who also received the position of Adelantado mayor of the Andalusian border, while returning Écija to María de Molina, for having...
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    begun by Pedro Enríquez de Quiñones, Adelantado Mayor of Andalusía, and his wife Catalina de Rivera, founder of the Casa de Alcalá, and completed by...
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    2016). "El PSOE se sume en su mayor crisis al negarse Sánchez a irse tras dimitir media ejecutiva". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved...
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    (1995). Derrota y muerte de Sir Francis Drake, a Coruña 1589 – Portobelo 1596 (in Spanish). Xunta de Galicia, Servicio Central de Publicacións. ISBN 978-8445314630...
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  • Ávila El Adelantado de Segovia [es]: Segovia Heraldo-Diario de Soria: Soria, sold along with El Mundo throughout Soria Province) La Voz de Galicia: A Coruña...
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    Miguel Arochi y Baeza, a member of the Nueva Galicia nobility, painted by José María Estrada Don Melchor de Ecay-Múzquiz y Arrieta, 5º President of Mexico...
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    time (1148), he received the lordship of Roa de Duero. He may even have been appointed "commander" (adelantado) of the diocese of Osma. In 1145–46 he was...
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    at Mission San Francisco de Asís. After Mexican Independence and secularization, present-day Pacifica was granted to the mayor of San Francisco and Commandant...
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    comunidad de villa y tierra, of very different extension); political communities or broad jurisdictions such as the provinces, the adelantados, the veguerías...
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  • Agustín de la Florida, Cumaná, Río de la Plata y Guayana. El adelantado de la Florida, Menéndez de Avilés, para fundar San Agustín. Manuel Hernández González...
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    Osorio, Pedro de Bazán, Juan de Ulloa, Francisco Enríquez, the adelantado of Castile, —brother of the admiral—, Diego Osorio, Luis de la Cueva, etc....
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