Hugo O'Donnell, 7th Duke of Tetuan

Hugo O'Donnell y Duque de Estrada (born 29 September 1948), 7th Duke of Tetuan, GE, OM, is a Spanish peer and historian who was the vice president of the International Commission for Maritime History, censor of the Real Academia de la Historia, and elect member of the Royal Historical Society.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is O'Donnell and the second or maternal family name is Duque de Estrada.
O'Donnell as a teenager in 1963 with Commandant Patrick O'Donnell

Life

He succeeded his father, Leopoldo O'Donnell y Lara, as Duke of Tetuan and Grandee of Spain (confirmed by Ministry of Justice in Madrid: BOE 240 dated 7 October 2005). The title commemorates the conquest of Tetuan in Morocco in the mid-19th century by his ancestor, Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, 1st Duke of Tetuan and Prime Minister of Spain.

He is the recognised Tánaiste (heir apparent) to The O'Donnell of Tyrconnell, Prince and Chief of the Name of the O'Donnells, who is a retired Franciscan priest, Fr. Hugh O'Donel, and whom he will succeed as Chief of the Name, according to the books by authors Berresford Ellis and Curley referenced below.

The duke is an active member of the Clan Association of the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell (of Ireland), and he is a Knight of Malta. The duke is a naval historian, and also a former naval commander and Minister for the Marine in Spain.

He was elected to medalla nº 2 of the Real Academia de la Historia on 22 June 2001, and he took up his seat on 1 February 2004.[1]

Marriage and issue

The duke is married to Maria de la Asunción Armada y Díez de Rivera. Together, they had four children:

  1. Carlos Leopoldo O'Donnell, 15th Marquess of Altamira and Grandee of Spain (born 1974)
  2. Maria Fuencisla O'Donnell (born 1975)
  3. Hugo José O'Donnell, 9th Marquess of las Salinas (born 1979)
  4. Alfonso O'Donnell, 7th Count of Lucena (born 1984)

See also

Selected bibliography
  • Peter Berresford Ellis, Erin’s Blood Royal. The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland (London: Constable, 1999; pages 251–258 on the O'Donel, Prince of Tirconnell).
  • Walter J. P. Curley, Vanishing Kingdoms. The Irish Chiefs and Their Families , with foreword by Charles Lysaght (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004; chapter on O'Donnell of Tyrconnell, p. 59), [ISBN 1-84351-055-3 & ISBN 1-84351-056-1].

References
  1. "D. Hugo O'DONNELL Y DUQUE DE ESTRADA" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
Spanish nobility
Preceded by
Leopoldo O'Donnell		 Duke of Tetuan
13 July 2005 – Present		 Incumbent
Heir:
Carlos O'Donnell
Marquis of Altamira Succeeded by
Carlos O'Donnell
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