The Counts of Torre Díaz () is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain and granted in 1846 by Isabella II to Don Pedro Juan de Zulueta.
History
an important turning point in the Reconquista and the medieval history of Spain.Lynn Hunt describes the battle as a "major turning point in the reconquista..." See Lynn Hunt, R. Po-chia Hsia, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, and Bonnie Smith, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures: A Concise History: Volume I: To 1740, Second Edition (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's 2007), 391.
The hereditary rank and title, Count of Torre Díaz, was conferred on Spanish merchant Don Pedro Juan de Zulueta by Queen Isabella II of Spain in 1846. The 2nd Count, a chamberlain to the King of Spain and a member of the Senate of Spain until the Revolution in 1868, married Sophie Anne Willcox, daughter of Brodie McGhie Willcox, MP for Southampton, and established the London bank of Zulueta & Co. Sofia Josefa de Zulueta, a daughter of the 2nd Count, married Rafael Carlos Merry del Val and was the mother of Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val. The 3rd Count, was married to Constance, daughter of the Hon. Frederick Petre (a son of the 11th Baron Petre) and, secondly, to Hon. Bertha Clifford, a daughter of Charles Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh. The 5th Count was a Roman Catholic canon who served as rector of Holy Redeemer Church, Chelsea.
Counts of Torre Díaz (1846) Pedro Juan de Zulueta, 1st Count of Torre Díaz (1784–1855) Pedro José de Zulueta y Madariaga, 2nd Count of Torre Díaz (1809–1882) Brodie Manuel de Zulueta, 3rd Count of Torre Diaz (1842–1918) Alfonso Maria de Zulueta y Petre, 4th Count of Torre Díaz (1874–1951) Alfonso Manuel de Zulueta y Ruiz de Tagle, 5th Count of Torre Díaz (1903–1980) Pablo de Zulueta y Browing, 6th Count of Torre Diaz (b. 1956)
Other family members Don Pedro Juan de Zulueta Francis de Zulueta ( Francisco Maria José de Zulueta; 1878–1958) Sir Philip de Zulueta (1925–1989)
See also Spanish nobility
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