List of ambassadors of Spain to Portugal
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The ambassador of Spain to Portugal is Spain's foremost diplomatic representative in Portugal, and is in charge of Spain's diplomatic mission to the Republic of Portugal.
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NominatorThe Foreign Minister
AppointerThe Monarch
DeputyDeputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Spain to Portugal
| Ambassador of Spain to Portugal | |
|---|---|
Coat of Arms of Spain | |
.jpg) Incumbent since 28 December 2023Juan Fernández Trigo | |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| Style | The Most Excellent |
| Nominator | The Foreign Minister |
| Appointer | The Monarch |
| Deputy | Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Spain to Portugal |
Since 2021, the ambassador is also accredited to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, with observer status.[1]
History
The ambassador is appointed to the Council of Ministers, they direct the work of all the offices that depend on the embassy, based in Lisbon. Likewise, it informs the Spanish Government about the evolution of events in Portugal, negotiates on behalf of Spain, can sign or ratify agreements, observes the development of bilateral relations in all fields and ensures the protection of Spanish interests and its citizens in Portugal.
The current ambassador is Juan Fernández Trigo, who was appointed by Pedro Sánchez's government on 28 December 2023.[2]
List of ambassadors
| From[3] | Up To[4] | Ambassador | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1474 | 1474 | Doctor Andrés Villalón | Envoy |
| 1475 | 1475 | Gómez Manrique | Envoy |
| 1476 | 1476 | Doctor Toledo | Envoy |
| 1479 | 1479 | Rodrigo Maldonado de Talavera | Plenipotentiary |
| 1479 | 1479 | Juan Díaz de Madrigal | Co-ambassadors |
| Hernando de Talavera | |||
| 1480 | 1480 | Hernando de Talavera | Co-ambassadors |
| Alonso Manuel | |||
| 1480 | 1480 | Juan de Ortega, Bishop of Coria | Co-ambassadors |
| Alvar Pérez de Medina | |||
| 1481 | 1481 | Diego García de Padilla | Plenipotentiary |
| 1482 | 1483 | Juan de Ortega, Bishop of Coria | Co-ambassadors |
| Lope de Atouguía | |||
| 1483 | 1483 | Hernando de Talavera | Ambassador |
| 1484 | 1484 | Iñigo Manrique, bishop of Córdoba | Co-ambassadors |
| Gaspar Fabra | |||
| 1484 | 1484 | Doctor Lillo | Special envoy |
| 1488 | 1488 | Sancho Machuca | Envoy |
| 1490 | 1490 | Hernando de Talavera | Ambassador |
| 1490 | 1490 | Gutierre de Cárdenas | Envoy |
| 1493 | 1493 | Lope de Herrera | Envoy |
| 1493 | 1494 | Pedro de Ayala | Co-ambassadors |
| Garci López de Carvajal | |||
| 1495 | 1497 | Alfonso de Silva | Ambassador |
| 1496 | 1496 | Álvaro de Bragança | Ambassador |
| 1499 | 1499 | Álvaro de Bragança | Ambassador |
| 1505 | 1505 | Enríquez Rodrigo | Envoy |
| 1508 | 1509 | Ochoa Álvarez de Isasaga | Envoy |
| 1510 | 1510 | Alonso de la Puente | Ambassador |
| 1511 | 1511 | Lope Hurtado de Mendoza | Ambassador |
| 1517 | 1517 | Miguel de Salamanca | Co-ambassadors |
| Pablo de Amerstorff | |||
| 1518 | 1518 | Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba | Co-ambassadors |
| Alonso Manrique de Lara | |||
| Juan Cabrero | |||
| 1518 | 1521 | Brites de Mendoza | Ambassador |
| 1521 | 1521 | Juan Pardo de Tavera, Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo | Extraordinary Ambassador |
| 1521 | 1523 | Cristóbal Barroso | Ambassador |
| 1522 | 1522 | Charles de Poupet | Extraordinary Ambassador |
| 1522 | 1525 | Juan de Zúñiga | Ambassador |
| 1525 | 1526 | Charles de Poupet | Ambassador |
1527 | 1532 | Lope Hurtado de Mendoza | |
1536 | 1543 | Luis Sarmiento de Mendoza | |
1544 | 1552 | Lope Hurtado de Mendoza | |
1552 | 1552 | Diego Hurtado de Mendoza | |
1552 | 1556 | Luis Sarmiento de Mendoza | |
1556 | 1557 | Juan Hurtado de Mendoza | |
1557 | 1559 | Juan de Mendoza y de Rivera | |
1562 | 1567 | Alonso de Tovar | |
1567 | 1569 | Fernando Carrillo de Mendoza y Villarreal | 7th Count of Priego |
1569 | 1575 | Juan de Borja y Castro | 1st Count of Mayalde |
1576 | 1578 | Juan de Silva | 4th Count of Portalegre |
1579 | 1580 | Pedro Téllez-Girón y de la Cueva Cristóbal de Moura Rodrigo Vázquez de Arce Luis de Molina | Téllez-Girón was the 1st Duke of Osuna |
1580 | 1640 | Philippine dynasty | Portugal under Spanish rule |
1640 | 1668 | Portuguese Restoration War | |
1668 | 1668 | Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán | 7th Marquess of Carpio, 3rd Marquess of Eliche |
1668 | 1670 | Charles de Watteville | 1st Baron of Watteville |
1671 | 1673 | Baltasar de Eraso y Toledo | 2nd Count of Humanes |
1673 | 1681 | Juan Domingo Maserati | |
1684 | 1690 | Francisco Diego Ventura Fernández de Angulo, O.F.M. | Bishop of Ávila |
1691 | 1698 | Manuel de Sentmenat-Oms de Santa Pau y de Lanuza | 1st Marquess of Castelldosrius |
1702 | 1703 | Domingo Capecelatro y Caracciolo | Marquess of Capecelatro |
1715 | 1735 | Domingo Capecelatro y Caracciolo | Marquess of Capecelatro |
1727 | 1728 | Carlos Ambrosio Gaetano Spínola de la Cerda | 5th Marquess of Los Balbases |
1737 | 1737 | Domingo Capecelatro y Caracciolo | Marquess of Capecelatro |
1739 | 1739 | Bernardino de Marimón y Corberá | |
1743 | 1746 | Cristóbal Joaquín de Franchi y Benítez de Lugo | 1st Marquess of Candia |
1746 | 1753 | Félix-Fernando Yáñez de Sotomayor Masones de Lima | 3rd Duke of Sotomayor |
1753 | 1755 | Bernat Antoni de Boixadors i Sureda de Sant Martí | 8th Count of Peralada |
1755 | 1756 | Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Ximenez de Urrea | 10th Count of Aranda |
1756 | 1760 | Francisco Javier de Lanzós y Taboada | 7th Count of Maceda |
1760 | 1762 | José Torrero y Marzo | |
1765 | 1778 | Pedro de Góngora y Luján | Marquess of Almodóvar del Río |
1778 | 1787 | Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos | 6th Count of Fernán Núñez |
1789 | 1790 | Juan de Silva Rabatta y Meneses | 14th Count of Cifuentes |
1792 | 1798 | Juan Vicente María Imperiali y Centurión | 8th Marquess of Oyra |
1798 | 1800 | Diego Fernández de Velasco | 13th Duke of Frías |
1803 | 1807 | Manuel Negrete de la Torre | 2nd Count of Campo de Alange |
1822 | 1823 | Manuel María de Aguilar | |
1823 | 1825 | José Antonio de Aragón Azlor | 13th Duke of Villahermosa |
1825 | 1827 | José Flórez y Pereira | 2nd Count of Casa Florez |
1829 | 1833 | Joaquín de Acosta y Montealegre | |
1833 | 1834 | Luis Fernández de Córdova | |
1834 | 1838 | Evaristo Pérez de Castro | [5] |
1838 | 1843 | Manuel María de Aguilar | |
1847 | 1847 | Luis González Brabo | |
1847 | 1847 | Luis López de la Torre Ayllón | [5] |
1847 | 1850 | Salvador de Zea Bermúdez | Count of Colombi |
1851 | 1851 | Antonio Caballero | |
1851 | 1854 | Antonio Alcalá Galiano | [5] |
1854 | 1855 | Antonio de los Ríos Rosas | [5] |
1855 | 1856 | Patricio de la Escosura | [5] |
1856 | 1856 | Luis González Brabo | 2nd term |
1856 | 1857 | Luis López de la Torre Ayllón | 2nd term |
1858 | 1860 | Antonio Alcalá Galiano | 2nd term |
1860 | 1861 | Nicomedes Pastor Díaz | |
1862 | 1864 | Juan Ximénez de Sandoval | Marqués de la Rivera |
1864 | 1865 | Diego Coello de Portugal y Quesada | |
1866 | 1868 | Miguel de los Santos Bañuelos | |
1868 | 1870 | Cipriano del Mazo Gherardi | |
1870 | 1871 | Ángel Fernández de los Ríos | [5] |
1875 | 1877 | Agustín Esteban Collantes | |
1875 | 1877 | Alejandro de Castro Casal | |
1878 | 1879 | Carlos O’Donnell y Vargas | 2nd Duke of Tetuán |
1879 | 1881 | Emilio Alcalá-Galiano y Valencia | Count of Casa-Valencia |
1881 | 1883 | Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano | |
1883 | 1884 | Felipe Méndez de Vigo | |
1884 | 1886 | Saturnino Álvarez Bugallal | |
1886 | 1892 | Felipe Méndez de Vigo | 2nd term |
1893 | 1895 | Tomás Piñeiro y Aguilar | Marqués de Bendaña |
1895 | 1897 | Ángel Ruata y Sichar | |
1897 | 1899 | Juan Jordán de Urríes y Ruiz de Arana | Marqués de Ayerbe |
1899 | 1904 | Luis Polo de Bernabé | |
1904 | 1904 | Bernardo Jacinto de Cólogan y Cólogan | |
1904 | 1905 | Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano | Count of la Viñaza [5] |
1905 | 1906 | Bernabé Dávila y Bertoletti | |
1906 | 1907 | Ulpiano García de Olañeta | Marqués de Valdeterrazo |
1907 | 1910 | Fernando Sartorius y Chacón | Conde de San Luis |
1910 | 1913 | Rodrigo de Saavedra y Vinent | Marquess of Villalobar |
1913 | 1915 | Luis Valera y Delavat | Marquess of Villasinda |
1915 | 1917 | Antonio López Muñoz | |
1917 | 1926 | Alejandro Padilla y Bell | |
1926 | 1929 | Cristóbal Fernández-Vallín y Alfonso | |
1929 | 1930 | Bernardo Almeida y Herreros | |
1930 | 1931 | Mauricio López-Roberts y Terry | 3rd Marquess of Torrehermosa |
1931 | 1933 | Juan José Rocha García | |
1933 | 1936 | José Juncal Verdulla | |
1936 | 1936 | Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña | |
1938 | 1957 | Nicolás Franco Bahamonde | |
1958 | 1969 | José Ibáñez Martín | |
1969 | 1972 | José Antonio Giménez-Arnau y Gran | |
1972 | 1974 | Emilio de Navasqüés | |
1974 | 1976 | Antonio Poch Gutiérrez de Caviedes | |
1977 | 1982 | Fernando Rodríguez-Porrero y de Chávarri | |
1982 | 1985 | Ramón Fernández de Soignie | [6] |
1985 | 1991 | Gabriel Ferrán de Alfaro | [7] |
1991 | 1995 | José Joaquín Puig de la Bellacasa y Urdampilleta | [8] |
1995 | 1999 | Raúl Morodo | [9] |
1999 | 2002 | José Rodríguez-Spiteri | [10] |
2002 | 2005 | Carlos Carderera Soler | [11] |
2005 | 2008 | Enrique Panés Calpe | [12] |
2008 | 2010 | Alberto José Navarro González | [13] |
2010 | 2012 | Francisco Villar y Ortiz de Urbina | [14] |
2012 | 2015 | Eduardo Junco Bonet | [15] |
2015 | 2017 | Juan Manuel de Barandica | [16] |
2017 | 2018 | Eduardo Gutiérrez Sáenz de Buruaga | [17] |
2018 | 2023 | Marta Betanzos Roig | [18] |
2023 | Incumbent | Juan Fernández Trigo | [a][2] |