Marquessate of Terranova
Creation date23 December 1614
Created byPhilip III
PeeragePeerage of Spain
First holderPedro Maza de Lizana y Carroz, 1st Marquess of Terranova
Present holderGabriel Squella y Duque de Estrada, 16th Marquess of Terranova[1]

Marquess of Terranova (Spanish: Marqués de Terranova), is a title of Spanish nobility. It was granted along with the Dukedom of Mandas to Pedro Maza de Lizana on 23 December 1614 by king Philip III.[2]

Pedro Maza de Lizana was the son of Baltasar Maza de Lizana, lord of Castalla and Ayora in Valencia, fief of Mandas in Sardinia, and of Francisca Hurtado de Mendoza, daughter of Luis Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd Marquess of Mondéjar, and Catalina de Mendoza, of the Counts of Monteagudo. He descended from the male line of the Ladrón de Vilanova (or Pallás) family, Viscounts of Chelva and Counts of Sinarcas, but his father adopted the last name Maza de Lizana, of which he had no ancestry, as a testamentary condition of Brianda Maza y Carroz, a distant relative of him, who designated him as the universal heir of her vast assets.

As the 12th Marquess died childless, the title became vacant until it was rehabilitated in the early 1900s by Alfonso XIII in favour of José Finat y Carvajal, a descendant of the 9th Marquess. In 1949, the title passed into a different family after a long judiciary process that ruled in favour of Ricardo Squella as a more favourable descendant.[3]

Marquesses of Terranova (1614)

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References

  1. ↑ Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) – 7 October 1994
  2. ↑ Real Asociación de Hidalgos de España, Elenco de Grandezas y Títulos Nobiliarios Españoles, Ediciones Hidalguía, Vol. 50 (Madrid, 2018), p. 869
  3. ↑ Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) – 9 June 1949
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