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Pedro Cruz Villalón

Spanish jurist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ1504581 ↗
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Pedro Cruz Villalón (born 25 May 1946) is a Spanish jurist who served as an Advocate General at the European Court of Justice. He was chief justice of the Constitutional Court of Spain (1998–2001). Cruz Villalón was awarded Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía in 2001.

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“Pedro Cruz Villalón” enters the record as spanish jurist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pedro, Cruz and Villalón can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1998, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-05-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pedro, Cruz and Villalón.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1504581. VIAF identifies the subject as 51750041. The Library of Congress control number is n81031673. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 1998 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pedro Cruz Villalón” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.