Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 14th Duke of Frías
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 Bernardino Fernández de Velasco-Pacheco y Benavides, 14th Duke of Frías, Grandee of Spain,
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; 1753 – 1851) was a Spanish noble
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, politician
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, diplomat
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 and writer
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 who served in 1838 as Prime Minister of Spain
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. He was one of the most important Spanish nobles of his time, and held, among other titles, the dukedoms of Frías, Escalona and Uceda, the Marquisates of Villena and Berlanga, and the Countships of Alba de Liste, Oropesa and Peñaranda de Bracamonte.

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