Antonio de Benavides y Fernández de Navarrete

Spanish noble, historian and politician

The Most Excellent Antonio de Benavides


Minister of State
In office 8 June 1865 – 21 June 1865
Monarch	Isabella II
Prime Minister	Ramón María Narváez
Preceded by	Alejandro Llorente
Succeeded by	Lorenzo Arrazola (acting)
Seat C of the Real Academia Española
In office 24 November 1872 – 23 January 1884
Preceded by	Luis González Bravo
Succeeded by	Cristino Martos y Balbí^[a]

Personal details
Born	Antonio de Benavides y Fernández de Navarrete (1807-06-20)20 June 1807 Baeza, Spain
Died	23 January 1884(1884-01-23) (aged 76) Madrid, Spain

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]

Notes

^ Martos was elected for the position in 1884 but never took the seat

References

^ "Antonio Benavides - letra C". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.

Sources

Cadenas y Vicent, Vicente de, Knights of the Order of Santiago in the 19th Century. Madrid, Hidalguía, 1992. (in Spanish)
Antonio de Benavides. Geneall.net
Personal dossier of D. Antonio de Benavide y Fernández de Navarrete. Spanish Senate

Political offices
Preceded by Alejandro Llorente	Minister of State 8 June 1865 – 21 June 1865	Succeeded by Lorenzo Arrazola Acting

Real Academia Española seat C

Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo (1713)
Alonso Rodríguez Castañón (1717)
Andrés Fernández Pacheco (1726)
Francisco Antonio de Angulo (1764)
Manuel de Lardizábal y Uribe (1775)
Francisco Martínez de la Rosa (1821)
Luis González Bravo (1863)
Antonio de Benavides (1872)
Cristino Martos y Balbí^[1]
Miguel Colmeiro Penido (1893)
José María Asensio (1904)
Antonio Fernández Grilo^[2]
Juan Vázquez de Mella^[3]
Ramón Pérez de Ayala^[4]
Luis Rosales (1964)
Luis Goytisolo (1995)

^[1] He was elected in 1884 but never took the seat; ^[2] He was elected in 1906 but never took the seat; ^[3] He was elected in 1907 but never took the seat; ^[4] He was elected in 1928 but never took the seat