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List of ambassadors of Spain to the United Kingdom

This is a List of Ambassadors of Spain to England and to the United Kingdom

Introduction

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor sent ambassadors to England representing the Empire, as well as Spain. When the Catholic Reformation began, Spain was in the opposite camp to Protestant England.

In the second half of the seventeenth century, Spain sometimes supported the English because, like them, it feared the hegemony in Europe that France and its king Louis XIV had achieved after the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).

After the Frenchman Philip of Anjou became King of Spain in 1700, during most of the eighteenth century, Spain again stood on the side of France, and was an opponent of Great Britain. It was not until the French Revolution that the two conservative countries, Spain and Great Britain, reconciled against the revolutionaries.

Spanish ambassadors, envoys and ministers plenipotentiary to England (1514–1707)

15th century

  • 1483–1483 Jofre de Sasiola (1st term)
  • 1485–1489 Rodrigo González de la Puebla (1st term)
  • 1491–1492 Jofre de Sasiola (2nd term)
  • 1494–1508 Rodrigo González de la Puebla (2nd term)
  • 1497–1500 Pedro de Ayala (1st term)
  • 1498–1498 Sancho de Londoño and Fray Tomás de Matienzo
  • 1499–1499 Don Juan Manuel, lord of Belmonte
  • 1499–1499 Hernán Duque de Estrada (1st term)

16th century

17th century

Spanish ambassadors, envoys and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

  • 1999–2004 Santiago de Mora-Figueroa y Williams
  • 2004–2008 Carlos Miranda y Elíof
  • 2008–2009 Carles Casajuana i Palet
  • 2009–2012 José Ignacio Carbajal Gárate
  • 2012–2017 Federico Trillo-Figueroa
  • 2017–2021 Carlos Bastarreche
  • 2021–2025 José Pascual Marco Martínez
  • 2025–present Emma Aparici Vázquez de Parga

See also

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