List of Spanish Ambassadors in the United Kingdom
This is a list of the Spanish Ambassadors to England and the United Kingdom .
history
The post of Ambassador to the Court of St James’s was established in 1489 as the second permanent representative of Spain, after the representation at the Holy See. In 1487 Rodrigo González de la Puebla, Juan de Sepúlveda and Diego de Guevara were special envoys in London to negotiate the marriage contract of Catherine of Aragón and Arthur Tudor .
Heads of mission
Envoys in England
Jofre Ibáñez II. De Sasiola | 1483 | 1483 | |
Jofre Ibáñez II. De Sasiola | 1491 | 1492 | |
Rodrigo González de la Puebla | embajador resident | 1485 | 1489 |
Gutierrez Gomez de Fuensalida, Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba | 1495 | 1495 | |
Gutierrez Gomez de Fuensalida | 1500 | 1500 | |
Sancho de Londoño and Fray Tomas de Matienzo | 1498 | 1498 | |
Juan Manuel de Villena de la Vega | 1499 | 1499 | |
Pedro de Ayala | 1497 | 1500 | |
Pedro de Ayala | 1501 | 1502 | |
Hernán Duque de Estrada | 1499 | 1499 | |
Hernán Duque de Estrada | 1502 | 1504 | |
Catherine of Aragon | 1507 | 1510 | |
Rodrigo González de la Puebla | 1494 | 1508 | |
Gutierrez Gomez de Fuensalida | 1508 | 1509 | |
Luis de Carroz Villarragut | 1509 | 1514 | |
Bernardo de Mesa | 1514 | 1522 | |
Georg van Thameske | 1516 | 1516 | |
Georg van Thameske | 1526 | 1527 | |
El Señor de Lindt | 1519 | 1520 | |
Johann III. by Glymes | 1520 | 1520 | |
Laurent de Gorrevod | 1520 | 1520 | |
Gérard de Plaines | 1520 | 1520 | |
Ludwig von Praet | 1522 | 1525 | |
Jean le Sauvage | 1520 | 1525 | |
Adolf of Burgundy | 1525 | 1525 | |
Ferry Laureyns | 1525 | 1525 | |
Rodrigo de Peñalosa Toledo | 1525 | 1525 | |
Jean Jonglet | 1518 | 1518 | |
Jean Jonglet | 1519 | 1519 | |
Jean Jonglet | 1526 | 1526 | |
Jean Jonglet | 1525 | 1526 | |
Íñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga | 1526 | 1529 | |
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza | 1536 | 1538 | |
Eustace Chapuys | 1529 | 1545 | |
Philippe Maioris | 1539 | 1540 | |
Ferrante I. Gonzaga | 1543 | 1543 | |
Beltrán II. De la Cueva y Toledo (1477–1560), Duke of Alburquerque | 1544 | 1544 | |
Frans van der Dilft | 1544 | 1550 | |
Thomas Perrenot de Granvelle | 1543 | 1543 | |
Thomas Perrenot de Granvelle | 1547 | 1547 | |
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza | Poet and Diplomat | 1549 | 1549 |
Juan III de Silva | 1549 | 1549 | |
Jean Scheyfve | 1550 | 1553 | |
Simon Renard | El Señor de Bermond | 1553 | 1555 |
Lamoral from Egmond | 1554 | 1554 | |
Charles II. De Lalaing | 1553 | 1553 | |
Jehan de Montmorency | 1553 | 1553 | |
Jehan de Montmorency | 1554 | 1554 | |
Philippe Negri | 1554 | 1554 | |
Pedro de Ávila y Zúñiga | 1554 | 1554 | |
Gomes III Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba | El Duque de Feria | 1558 | 1559 |
Julius von Pflug | 1559 | 1559 | |
Juan de Ayala | 1559 | 1559 | |
Filips van Stavele | 1560 | 1560 | |
Juan Pacheco de Toledo, 2nd Marquis de Cerralbo | 1560 | 1560 | |
Álvaro de la Quadra | 1559 | 1563 | |
Diego de Silva y Guzmán | († 1578) | 1564 | November 1568 |
Guerau de Spes | November 1568 | January 1571 | |
Christophe d'Assonleville | 1558 | 1558 | |
Christophe d'Assonleville | 1559 | 1559 | |
Christophe d'Assonleville | 1563 | 1563 | |
Christophe d'Assonleville | 1569 | 1569 | |
El Marqués de Cetona, Marquis Vitelli Chiappino (II) 1519 - July 1575 | 1569 | 1569 | |
Antonio Guarás | 1572 | 1578 | |
Bernardino de Mendoza | 1574 | 1574 | |
Bernardino de Mendoza | 1578 | 1584 | |
no diplomatic relations | A delegation was sent to England to negotiate a part of the Eighty Years' War that had lasted since 1585 for the independence of the Spanish Netherlands and to prepare the Treaty of London (1604) . | 1584 | 1603 |
Juan de Tassis y Acuña | El Conde de Villamediana | 1603 | 1604 |
Carlos Coloma | (El Condestable de Castilla) | 1604 | 1604 |
El Conde Principe de Arenberg | 1603 | 1604 | |
I. Marqués de Flores de Avila | 1605 | 1609 | |
I. Marqués de Flores de Avila | 1612 | 1612 | |
Conde de la Revilla | 1609 | 1613 | |
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña | 1612 | 1618 | |
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña | 1620 | 1622 | |
Diego Sarmiento de Acuña | 1624 | 1624 | |
Juan de Mendoza y Velasco | 1623 | 1624 | |
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza | 1624 | 1624 | |
El Marqués de Espinar | 1622 | 1624 | |
El Marqués de Espinar | 1629 | 1631 | |
Peter Paul Rubens | 1627 | 1630 | |
Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, Conde de Oñate | 1632 | 1636 | |
Alonso de Peralta Cárdenas | 1638 | 1655 | |
El Marqués de Velada | 1640 | 1641 | |
El Marqués Malvezzi | 1640 | 1641 | |
Alonso Rancano | 1660 | 1662 | |
Claude Lamoral, Prince of Ligne | 1660 | 1660 | |
Jean Charles de Watteville | 1660 | 1662 | |
Patricio Moledi | 1663 | 1665 | |
El Conde de Molina | 1665 | 1669 | |
El Conde de Molina | 1670 | 1672 | |
Íñigo Melchor Fernández de Velasco | 1671 | 1674 | |
El Baron de Bergeick | Tratado de Aquisgrán (1668) | 1675 | 1675 |
El Baron de Bergeick | Tratado de Aquisgrán (1668) | 1677 | 1677 |
El Marqués de Borgomanero | 1677 | 1680 | |
Lodewijk Filips (1630–1682) | see list of the Counts of Egmond | 1678 | 1679 |
El Marqués de Valparaiso | 1685 | 1685 | |
Pedro Ronquillo Briceño | 1674 | 1676 | |
Pedro Ronquillo Briceño | 1679 | 1691 | |
Francisco Antonio Navarro | 1691 | 1691 | |
Bernardo Salinas | 1671 | 1671 | |
Bernardo Salinas | 1676 | 1677 | |
El Marqués de Canales | 1690 | 1699 |
Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Surname | particularities | Taking office | End of office |
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no diplomatic relations | 1700 | 1712 | |
Isidore de Monteleone | (Ysidoro Casado de Acevedo y del Mazo 1st Marques de Monteleone 1667–1739) | 1712 | 1713 |
Ysidoro Casado de Acevedo y del Mazo | 1714 | 1718 | |
Ysidoro Casado de Acevedo y del Mazo | 1724 | 1724 | |
Patrick Laules | chargé d'affaires | 1713 | 1714 |
Jacinto de Pozobueno (Marqués de Pozobueno) | 1720 | 1727 | |
Cristóbal Gregorio VI. Portocarrero Osorio Villalpando y Guzmán | 1731 | 1736 | |
Thomas Geraldino | 1736 | 1739 | |
no diplomatic relations | 1739 | 1747 | |
Jerónimo Grimaldi | 1746 | 1746 | |
Jerónimo Grimaldi | 1752 | 1752 | |
Jerónimo Grimaldi | 1762 | 1763 | |
Ricardo Wall | 1747 | 1754 | |
Felix Joseph de Abreu y Bertodano | 1754 | 1760 | |
Juan Joaquín Atanasio Pignatelli y Fernández de Heredia, hrabia Fuentes | El conde de Fuentes | 1760 | 1761 |
Francisco Javier Carrión Ribas | 1763 | 1763 | |
Vittorio Filippo Ferrero Fieschi, ksiaze Masserano | El príncipe de Masserano | 1763 | 1777 |
Francisco Escarano Torres | 1772 | 1775 | |
Francisco Escarano Torres | 1777 | 1778 | |
Duque de Almodovar del Rio | 1778 | 1779 | |
no diplomatic relations | 1779 | 1783 | |
Ignacio de Heredia Inglés | 1782 | 1783 | |
Bernardo del Campo and Perez de la Serna | El marqués del Campo | 1783 | 1795 |
Simon de las Casas y Aragorri | 1795 | 1796 | |
Miguel de Larrea | 1802 | 1803 | |
José J. de Anduaga Garimberti | 1802 | 1804 | |
El conde de Toreno | 1808 | 1809 | |
Francisco Sangro | 1808 | 1809 | |
El conde de Venadito | 1808 | 1811 | |
Francisco Martínez de la Rosa | 1808 | 1808 | |
Francisco Serralde | 1808 | 1808 | |
Adrián Jacome | 1809 | 1809 | |
Pedro Ceballos Guerra | Representative of the exiled Ferdinand VII in opposition to Joseph Bonaparte | 1809 | 1810 |
El duque de Alburquerque | 1810 | 1810 | |
El duque del Infantado | 1811 | ||
El duque de Fernán Nuñez | 1812 | 1817 | |
Joaquín F. Campuzano Morentes | 1817 | 1817 | |
El duque de San Carlos | 1817 | 1820 | |
Santiago de Usoz Mozzi | 1820 | 1820 | |
El duque de Frias | 1820 | 1821 | |
Luis de Onís González | 1821 | 1822 | |
Juan Gabriel de Jabat | 1822 | 1824 | |
Camilo Gutiérrez de los Ríos | 1824 | 1825 | |
Mateo de la Serna Santander | 1825 | 1826 | |
El conde de la Alcudia | 1826 | 1828 | |
El conde de Ofalia | 1826 | 1828 | |
Carlos Cruzmayor | 1828 | 1828 | |
Francisco de Zea Bermúdez Buzo | 1824 | 1824 | |
Francisco de Zea Bermúdez Buzo | 1828 | 1832 | |
Antonio López de Cordoba | 1832 | 1833 | |
Juan N. de Vial Eydeli | 1833 | 1834 | |
El marqués de Miraflores | 1834 | 1838 | |
Ignacio de Jabat | 1834 | 1835 | |
Ignacio de Jabat | 1835 | 1836 | |
Miguel de Álava | 1834 | 1835 | |
Miguel de Álava | Miguel R. de Alava Esquivel | 1838 | 1841 |
Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort-Spontin | 1837 | ||
Manuel María de Aguilar | 1836 | 1838 | |
Luis de Flores | 1841 | 1841 | |
Vicente Sancho del Castillo | 1841 | 1844 | |
Fernando Rodríguez Ribas | 1844 | 1844 | |
El duque de la Union de Cuba | 1844 | 1844 | |
Miguel Tacón y Rosique | 1847 | 1848 | |
Juan González de la Pezuela y Ceballos | 1844 | 1844 | |
El duque de Sotomayor | 1844 | 1847 | |
Luis González Bravo | 1856 | 1858 | |
Francisco Javier de Istúriz | 1847 | 1848 | |
Francisco Javier de Istúriz | 1850 | 1854 | |
Francisco Javier de Istúriz | 1858 | 1862 | |
Augusto Conte Lerdo de Tejada | 1862 | 1863 | |
Antonio González González | 1841 | 1841 | |
Antonio González González | 1854 | 1856 | |
Antonio González González | 1862 | 1863 | |
Juan Tomás Comyn | 1854 | 1854 | |
Juan Tomás Comyn | 1856 | 1857 | |
Juan Tomás Comyn | 1863 | 1865 | |
Juan Tomás Comyn | 1873 | 1875 | |
El marqués de Cortina | 1865 | 1866 | |
El marqués de Molins | 1865 | 1866 | |
El duque de Vistahermosa | 1866 | 1868 | |
Gorgonio Petano Mazariegos | 1868 | 1869 | |
Gabriel García de Tassara | 1869 | 1869 | |
El marqués del moral | 1869 | 1869 | |
Manuel Rancés y Villanueva | 1869 | 1872 | |
Manuel Rancés y Villanueva | 1875 | 1886 | |
Manuel Rancés y Villanueva | 1890 | 1893 | |
Segismundo Moret Prendergast | 1872 | 1873 | |
José Argaiz Vildósola | 1873 | 1873 | |
Federico Rubio Gali | 1873 | 1873 | |
Buenaventura Abarzuza Ferrer | 1873 | ||
Enrique Valles y Soler de Aragón | 1875 | 1875 | |
Marquis Rafael Merry del Val | Embassy secretary | 1875 | 1897 |
José Luis Albareda | 1888 | 1890 | |
Cipriano del Mazo Gherardi | 1886 | 1888 | |
Cipriano del Mazo Gherardi | 1892 | 1895 | |
El Conde de Rascón | 1897 | 1900 | |
Fermín Lasala y Collado | 1900 | 1905 | |
Luis Polo de Bernabé Pilón | 1905 | 1906 | |
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villaurrutia | 1905 | 1913 | |
Alfonso Merry del Val y Zulueta | 1913 | 1931 | |
Ramón Pérez de Ayala | 1932 | 1936 | |
Julio López Oliván | 1936 | December 1941 | |
Pablo de Azcárate y Flórez | September 1936 | December 1941 | |
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó | November 21, 1937 | March 19, 1945 | |
José Ruiz de Arana y Bauer | 1942 | 1944 | |
Domingo de las Bárcenas y Lopez-Mollinedo Mercado | 1945 | 1948 | |
José Ruiz de Arana y Bauer | 1948 | 1951 | |
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia | March 26, 1951 | February 6, 1958 | |
José Fernández-Villaverde | 1958 | 1972 | |
Jaime de Piniés | 1972 | 1973 | |
Manuel Fraga Iribarne | 1973 | 1975 | |
Manuel Gómez Acebo y de Igartua | 1975 | 1976 | |
Luis Guillermo de Perinat y Elío | 1976 | 1981 | |
Fernando Arias-Salgado | 1981 | 1983 | |
José Joaquín Puig de la Bellacasa | 1983 | 1990 | |
Felipe de la Morena y Calvet | 1990 | 1992 | |
Alberto Aza Arias | 18th December 1992 | 1999 | |
Santiago de Mora-Figueroa y Williams | 1999 | March 2004 | |
Carlos Miranda y Elío | 2004 | August 2008 | |
Carles Casajuana i Palet | August 2008 | September 2009 | |
José Ignacio Carbajal Gárate | September 2009 | 2012 | |
Federico Trillo | 2012 |