2023-10-17 21:40:36
During centuries, The Medinaceli family held important titles of nobility and held influential positions in the court and government of Spain.. Through generations, their family tree included powerful dukes and counts, but also three Saints and two Popes.
But in the 21st century, the enormous family, the most important of the Spanish nobility, is engaged in a passionate fratricidal dispute over the inheritance of the dynastya situation that embittered the current Duchess of Medinaceli, who at 27 years old got married this weekend without being able to wear the ducal tiara – the most important jewel of her family – and was also unable to get married in the palace where her ancestors did. .
Victoria von Hohenlohe-Langenburg has German blood (she is descended from a very rich princely family) but she is very Spanish: born in 1997, she inherited the title of 20th Duchess of Medinaceli after the successive deaths of her grandmother, in 2012, of her great-grandmother in 2013 and of her father, in 2016.
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The Duchy of Medinaceli, one of the oldest in Spain, is also one of the most prestigious in the kingdom and, therefore, the most coveted: it was created in 1479 by the Catholic Monarchs for Don Luis de la Cerda y de la Vega, count of Medinaceli.
As direct descendant of the kings of Castile, the Duchess’s rank is higher than even that of other wealthy families, such as the House of Alba and the House of Medina Sidonia. She is the highest-ranking person in the nobility, placed in the order of precedence only behind the aunts of King Felipe VI.
The duchess married Maxime Corneille, a Franco-Argentine economist, on October 14., in a ceremony in the church of San Miguel, in Jerez de la Frontera, attended by notable guests, such as the kings of the Netherlands. She intended to get married in the House of Pilate, the most important palace of her family, and wear the tiara of the duchesses, but none of this could have been due to her confrontation with a great-uncle who claims her inheritance.
The inheritance currently in dispute was in the hands, for decades, of one of the most notable aristocrats of Spain in the 20th century: Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba and Fernández de Henestrosa, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (1917-2013), who unlike her also deceased cousin Cayetana, Duchess of Alba, maintained a more discreet profile.
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The inheritance of the most duchess of all duchesses
The legendary 18th Duchess of Medinaceli was goddaughter of King Alfonso She estimated that she had about 100 castles, palaces or estates, but she wasn’t quite sure how many.
With her enormous number of noble titles (14 times ‘Grande of Spain’, 18 times Marchioness, 19 times Countess, four times Viscountess, etc.), she could have been recognized as the person with the most titles on the planet, but she gave up several to her children to avoid appearing in the Guinness Book of Records and left that honor to his cousin Cayetana, with 41 titles.
The 18th Duchess spent the last years of her life worrying about her heirs. In 2001, his third youngest son, Rafael (Duke of Feria), died from a barbiturate overdose years after being sentenced to prison for kidnapping a five-year-old girl and bathing her and photographing her naked, as well as for drug trafficking and corruption of minors.
In 2011, the Duchess’s eldest son, Luis (Duke of Santisteban del Puerto) died at the age of 69. Thanks to the fact that, in 2006, a reform in the succession laws of the Spanish nobility granted equal rights for men and women, the duchess’s second daughter, Ana Luisa de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, became the heir, but she died in 2012.
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When the 18th Duchess of Medinaceli died in 2013, the title was inherited by his grandson, Marco von Hohenlohe-Langenburg y Medina. Then a long path of judicial battles opened in a court in Seville between some of the descendants over the succession of the duchy and how the fortune should be distributed.
In Spain, nobility titles are not automatically inherited: a request is made to the Ministry of Justice, which issues a letter of succession in a process that can take more than three months. Subsequently the heir must pay between 1,000 and 3,000 euros for each title.
This happened after the death of Marco von Hohenlohe, in 2016, when the ducal title passed to his young daughter Victoria de Hohenlohe, much to the chagrin of her uncle, Ignacio Medina, Duke of Segorbe, who at 75 years old claims his right to inherit. the title her mother carried and the younger generation of the family was turned against her.
The Duke of Segorbe considers that he has the right to inherit twenty titles that they belonged to his mother (who claims that she inherited them during her lifetime) and that they passed to her nephews. Since then, the exchange of demands between the uncle and nephews led to one of the most surprising legal battles in Spain and divided the great family.
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As a duchess, Victoria von Hohenlohe has the right to access family residencessuch as the Casa de Pilatos in Seville, a spectacular 15th century construction that had guests such as Jackie Kennedy, Ava Gardner and Princess Grace of Monaco, and appeared in the film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ in 1962.
But castles, palaces, gardens, churches, historic buildings, almost 80,000 hectares of agricultural properties spread throughout Spain, as well as a large art collection, are part of the Casa Ducal de Medinaceli Foundation, which manages and preserves the family’s historical assets distributed throughout almost all Spanish regions.
As life manager of the Foundation, the Duke of Segorbe took revenge in the most scandalous way: in 2020 he expelled his nephews, nieces and his great-niece, the Duchess, from the organization, who has since been denied access. to all family properties.
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