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Marquis of Los Vélez is a Spanish noble title awarded in 1507 to the Spanish military Fajardo family.

The marquisate was awarded on 15 October 1507 by Queen Joanna I of Castile. The awarded title of Grandee of Spain was given to the Fajardo family in 1520 by her eldest son, King Charles I of Spain.

The first to hold the title was Pedro Fajardo, the first son of Luisa Fajardo y Manrique who, in 1477, had married a powerful Royal accountant and financier named Juan Chacón, a new nobleman jure uxoris. Luisa Fajardo y Manrique, Lady of Cartagena, came from an important military family, with institutional powers over conquered Muslim lands in Murcia, Granada and Almeria. Chacón was allowed by the Catholic Monarchs to use, as a privilege, his family name as Pedro Fajardo y Chacón.

The current Marquis is also known as Count of Niebla, Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo (with Grandeza).^[1]

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