📚 noun • entry_id 15736
adelantado
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adelantado
A title bestowed by the king on certain nobles in the 15th-17th centuries, who granted them governorship of a province or charged them with conquering a foreign territory
The grand master[…]communicated it to the principal chiefs on the borders ; among others , to Don Pedro Henriquez , adelantado of Andalusia , Don Juan de Silva , count of Cifuentes…
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