Duke of Sotomayor

Duke of Sotomayor is a title of Spanish nobility that was created, with Grandee of Spain, on 25 April 1703 by King Philip V in favor of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Lima, 2nd Marquess of Tenorio, 2nd Count of Crecente and Lord of Sotomayor.

History

The name of the title refers to the Lordship of Sotomayor, a Galician municipality in the current Province of Pontevedra.
The Lordship and Castle of Sotomayor was in the possession of the Dukes until the end of the 18th century, when it was lost to Benito Fernández Correa y Sotomayor, 4th Marquess of Mos, who won the lawsuit for a better right that his father, Pelayo Antonio Correa Sotomayor, had initiated on 14 May 1773, on the lands of the Sotomayor estate.