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Don, from Latin dominus, is an honorific in Spanish , Portuguese , and Italian . The female equivalent is Doña , Dona , and Donna , abbreviated "Dª" or simply "D."-Usage:...

 Joaquín Roncali y Ceruti, 1st Marquis of Roncali, Grandee of Spain (Cádiz

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, Spain

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, 8 September 1811 – Madrid

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, Spain

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, 6 February 1875) was a Spanish noble

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 and politician

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 who served as Minister of State in 1868. Roncaly ceased in his post because of the Spanish Glorious Revolution

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, which deposed Queen Isabella II of Spain

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.

Roncali was the eldest son of Agustín de Roncali y Martínez de Murcia, Knight of Santiago

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, and his wife María del Carmen Ceruti y Feit. His younger brother was the prominent politician Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy

Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy

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. Among other honours, Roncali was appointed Knight Collar of the Order of Charles III, Knight Grand Cross of the Orders of Isabella the Catholic, Pius IX

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, Christ of Portugal

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, the Crown of Prussia

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 and Saint Januarius. In 14 May 1867, Roncali was granted the Maruqisate of Roncali by the Queen, and on 6 August 1868, his title received the Grandeeship of Spain.

He married in 1850 María Dolores de Gaviria y Gutiérrez, daughter of the Count and the Countess of Casa Gaviria, and had a single daughter:

• Doña María Cristina de Roncali, 2nd Marquise of Roncali (1851–1928).