Pedro de Granada, 1st Señor of Campotéjar was of a Morisco family, being the grandson of Yaḥyā Abū Zakariyyā al-Naŷŷar (known as Cidi Yahya) who converted to Christianity and was baptised with the name Pedro de Granada during the general conversion of 1500–1501.[1] Cidi Yahya was himself the grandson of Yusuf IV, Emir of Granada.[2]
The Emirate of Granada fell to the Christians during the Reconquista in 1492. As a reward for his collaboration Pedro de Granada was given numerous grants by the Catholic monarchs. His descendants were embraced and integrated into the Catholic Spanish nobility.
Following the death of the 3rd Marquess in 1660, the title and associated lands including the Generalife and the municipalities of Campotéjar, Jayena and Dehesas Viejas passed to female line descendants, who resided in Genoa, Italy. Spain's attempts to recover the Generalife formed one of the longest judicial processes in Spanish history: it was initiated by Carlos IV of Spain in 1805 and was still in court in 1921.[3]
In 1875 the 17th Marchioness was created a Grandee of Spain. Following the death of the childless 18th Marquess of Campotéjar in 1921 the title did not pass to his nearest heir. The title remained in abeyance until 1951, when a letter of succession was issued in favour of Donna Casilda de Bustos y Figueroa, Duchess of Pastrana,[4] who was unrelated to the previous Marquesses.
Giovanni Battista Grimaldi, 12th Marquess of Campotéjar (?-?)
Maria Catarina Grimaldi, 13th Marchioness of Campotéjar (abt 1773-1837)
Maddalena Grimaldi, 14th Marchioness de Campotéjar (1775-1840)
Ignazio Alessandro Pallavicini, 15th Marquess of Campotéjar (1800-1871)
Maria Teresa Maddalena Pallavicini, 16th Marchioness of Campotéjar (1829-1914)
Giacomo Filippo Durazzo Pallavicini, 17th Marquess of Campotéjar (1848-1921)
In 1926, following the death of the 17th Marquess and the Spanish recovery of the Generalife, his widow was granted the Marquessate of the Generalife in her own right:
Matilde Giustiniani, Marchioness of the Generalife (1878-1970)
The Marquessate of Campotéjar was revived in 1951,[4] though the grantee was unrelated to the previous Marquesses:
Casilda de Bustos y Figueroa, 15th Duchess of Pastrana, 18th Marchioness of Campotéjar (1910-2000)
José Maria Finat y Bustos, 16th Duke of Pastrana, 19th Marquess of Campotéjar (b.1932)
Casilda Finat y Riva, 20th Marchioness of Campotéjar (b.1964)
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