Show LONG A privileged CLASS prerogatives of spanish grandees grandeas Gran dees placed them almost on an equality with royalty the name spanish grandees grandeas gran dees Is 18 given to the higher nobility of spain from the thirteenth century who nt at ono one time enjoyed almost royal privileges they held their honors by inheritance herl tance were exempt from taxation and could leave the kingdom and even enter the service of a foreign prince at war with spain without incurring the penalties of treason eason in addition they aticy had the righetto right to remain covered in jhb presence of the sovereign and could not be summoned before any civil or criminal tribunal with without out a special warrant from the king in na lional assemblies the granlees grantees gran grani tees lees took prece precedence defice of the titled nobility F ferdinand n d and isabella greatly curtailed these peculiar privileges and charles V limited their number of families to 10 and reduced them to a 11 dependent condition their dignities and pre vere totally abolished by joseph bonaparte but these were lvere partly restored by ferdinand VII on his accession to the tf throne irone |