List of ambassadors of Spain to the United Kingdom

This is a List of Ambassadors of Spain to England and to the United Kingdom

Introduction

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor sent ambassadors to England representing the Empire, as well as Spain. When the Catholic Reformation began, Spain was in the opposite camp to Protestant England.

In the second half of the seventeenth century, Spain sometimes supported the English because, like them, it feared the hegemony in Europe that France and its king Louis XIV had achieved after the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).

After the Frenchman Philip of Anjou became King of Spain in 1700, during most of the eighteenth century, Spain again stood on the side of France, and was an opponent of Great Britain. It was not until the French Revolution that the two conservative countries, Spain and Great Britain, reconciled against the revolutionaries.

Spanish ambassadors, envoys and ministers plenipotentiary to England (1514–1707)

15th century

  • 1483-1483 Jofre de Sasiola (1st term)
  • 1485-1489 Rodrigo González de la Puebla (1st term)
  • 1491-1492 Jofre de Sasiola (2nd term)
  • 1494-1508 Rodrigo González de la Puebla (2nd term)
  • 1497-1500 Pedro de Ayala (1st term)
  • 1498-1498 Sancho de Londoño and Fray Tomás de Matienzo
  • 1499-1499 Don Juan Manuel, lord of Belmonte
  • 1499-1499 Hernán Duque de Estrada (1st term)

16th century

  • 1500-1500 Gutierrez Gomez de Fuensalida (1st term)
  • 1501-1502 Don Pedro de Ayala (2nd term)
  • 1502-1504 Hernán Duque de Estrada (2nd term)
  • 1507-1510 Catherine of Aragon
  • 1508-1509 Gutierrez Gomez de Fuensalida (2nd term)
  • 1509-1514 Luis Caroz
  • 1514–1522 Bernardo de Mesa
  • 1516–1516 George of Theimseke
  • 1518–1519 Jean Jonglet (1st term)
  • 1519-1520 Philip Haneton, señor de Lindt
  • 1520-1520 John III of Glymes
  • 1520-1520 Laurent de Gouvenot
  • 1522–1525 Louis of Praet
  • 1525–1525 Jean La Sauche
  • 1525-1525 Adolf of Burgundy
  • 1525-1525 Ferry Laureyns
  • 1525-1525 Rodrigo de Peñalosa Toledo
  • 1525–1526 Jean Jonglet (2nd term)
  • 1526–1529 Iñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga
  • 1529–1545 Eustace Chapuys
  • 1536-1538 Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
  • 1539–1540 Philippe Maioris
  • 1543-1543 Ferrante Gonzaga
  • 1544-1544 Beltrán de la Cueva, 3rd Duke of Alburquerque
  • 1544–1550 François van der Delft
  • 1545-1545 Baudoin de Lannoy
  • 1547-1547 Thomas Perrenot de Granvelle
  • 1549-1549 Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
  • 1549-1549 Juan III de Silva
  • 1550–1553 Jean Scheyfve
  • 1553–1555 Simon Renard
  • 1553-1554 Jehan de Montmorency
  • 1554-1554 Lamoral, Count of Egmont
  • 1554-1554 Charles II de Lalaing
  • 1554-1554 Philippe Negri
  • 1554-1554 Pedro de Ávila y Zúñiga
  • 1558-1558 Christophe d´Assonleville
  • 1558-1559 Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria
  • 1559-1559 Christophe d´Assonleville
  • 1559-1563 Álvaro de la Quadra
  • 1559-1559 Caspar Breuner, barón de Rabenstein:
  • 1559-1559 Don Juan de Ayala
  • 1560-1560 Philippe de Stavele
  • 1560-1560 Juan Pacheco de Toledo
  • 1563-1563 Christophe d´Assonleville
  • 1564-1568 Diego Guzmán de Silva
  • 1568-1572 Guerau de Espés
  • 1569-1569 Christophe d´Assonleville
  • 1569-1569 Chiappino Vitelli
  • 1572-1578 Antonio de Guarás
  • 1574-1574 Bernardino de Mendoza (1st term)
  • 1578-1584 Bernardino de Mendoza (2nd term)
  • 1584-1603 Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)

17th century

Spanish ambassadors, envoys and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

  • 1999-2004 Santiago de Mora-Figueroa y Williams
  • 2004-2008 Carlos Miranda y Elío
  • 2008-2009 Carles Casajuana i Palet
  • 2009-2012 José Ignacio Carbajal Gárate
  • 2012-2017 Federico Trillo-Figueroa[2]
  • 2017-2021 Carlos Bastarreche
  • 2021- José Pascual Marco Martínez [3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Embajadores de España en Londres antes de 1900
  2. ^ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf
  3. ^ Embajadores de España en Londres desde 1900