Juan Manuel Sánchez, Duke of Almodóvar del Río
Minister of State
Don Juan Manuel Sánchez y Gutiérrez de Castro, jure uxoris Duke of Almodóvar del Río, Grandee of Spain (15 December 1850 in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain – 23 June 1906 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish noble and politician who served three times as Minister of State.
Almodovar was the head of a mission from Spain attending the 25th jubilee of Pope Leo XIII in February 1903. Along with Juan Pérez-Caballero y Ferrer, he was the representative of Spain in the Algeciras Conference of 1906.
In Córdoba, the 10 February 1872, he married Genoveva de Hoces, 8th Duchess of Almodóvar del Río, thus becoming a Grandee of Spain and Duke of Almodovar.
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