Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent

A native of Madrid, Spain, Cadenas was born on 29 April 1915, the son of Francisco de Cadenas y Gaztañaga and Vicenta Vicent y Nogués.{{cite book | last1 = Instituto Luis de Salazar y Castro | title = Estudios genealógicos, heráldicos y nobilarios en honor de Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent con motivo del XXV aniversario de la Revista Hidalguía | publisher = Ediciones Hidalguia | year = 1978 | location = Madrid, Spain | pages = 20 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xypddg8RrUAC&q=III+Congreso+Internacional+de+las+Ciencias+Genealogica+y+Heraldica | access-date = 2011-02-06 | isbn = 978-84-00-03779-6 | quote = Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, hijo de Francisco y de Vicenta, natural de Madrid; nacido el 29 de abril de 1915, casado con dona Liliana Guastini Simoni}} Beginning in 1932, he studied the fields of history and journalism, at the University of Madrid. He maintained dual professions as both the Chronicler of Arms and as a journalist. He was for many years a member of the Deputation of the Constantinian Order, of which he was Secretary and which he joined in 1960 upon the succession of the Infante D. Alfonso as Grand Master.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}

Cadenas founded the Asociación de Hidalgos a Fuero de España in 1954 to obtain the recognition of the untitled nobility(nobleza llana).{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} In 1953 he founded the review Hidalguía (with the particular aim of challenging false genealogies, fake titles and pseudo orders of chivalry) and the Instituto Internacional de Genealogía y Heráldica.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} The following year he founded the Instituto Luis de Salazar y Castro and in the following years the Colegio Mayor Marqués de la Ensenada, the Casasolar Santo Duque de Gandía, and the Casa Quinta Vita Natural Durante, each of which were dependent on the Association of Hidalgos.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}{{Elucidate|date=February 2011}}

He also organized two meetings of the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Madrid (1955 and 1982) The 15th Congress met in Madrid from 19 to 25 September in 1982 under the presidency of His Royal Highness Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (a cousin to King Juan Carlos I of Spain who opened the meeting) with Vicente de Cadenas serving as one of three vice presidents.{{cite book | last1 = International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences | title = XV Congreso Internacional de las Ciencias Genealogica y Heraldica, volumen oficial: Madrid, 19–25 septiembre 1982 | publisher = Instituto Luis de Salazar y Castro | year = 1983 | location = Madrid, Spain | pages = 9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=a0gT-Pix5t4C&q=XV+Congreso+Internacional+de+las+Ciencias+Genealogia+y+Heraldica | access-date = 2011-02-06 | isbn = 978-84-00-05435-9 }}

He published books and articles on historical themes as well as heraldry, genealogy, chivalric orders and documentary sciences.{{Examples|date=February 2011}} Between 1976 and 1991, Vicente wrote articles on three of the four Spanish military orders: the Order of Alcántara,{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Alcántara que efectuaron sus pruebas de ingreso durante el siglo XVIII|year=1991|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8487204302}} the Order of Calatrava,{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Calatrava que efectuaron sus pruebas de ingreso durante el siglo XIX|year=1976|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400034986}} and the Order of Santiago.{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Santiago : siglo XVIII.|year=1977|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400036195}} Actas del último consejo nacional de Falange Española de las J.O.N.S. (Salamanca, 18-19-IV-1937) y algunas noticias referentes a la Jefatura Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda, was a study of the last meeting of the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista following the death of its founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera.{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Actas del último consejo nacional de Falange Española de las J.O.N.S. (Salamanca, 18-19-IV-1937) y algunas noticias referentes a la Jefatura Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda|year=1975|publisher=[s.n.]|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8440085481}} Vicente reviewed the circumstances which led the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista to fall under the control of Francisco Franco and the use he made of the movement.{{cite book|last=edición a cargo de Jean-Michel Desvois ; [organiza] PILAR, Presse, imprimés, lecture dans l'aire romane|title=Prensa, impresos, lectura en el mundo hipánico contemporáneo : homenaje a Jean-François Botrel|year=2005|publisher=Institut d'études ibériques & ibéro-américaines, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux|location=Pessac (France)|isbn=9782867813757|pages=388}} He wrote a multi-volume study of the life and achievements of the Emperor Charles V (who was also, King Charles I of Spain).{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Diario del emperador Carlos V : itinerarios, permanencias, despacho, sucesos y efemérides relevantes de su vida|year=1992|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=8487204406}}{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Doble coronación de Carlos V en Bolonia, 22-24/II/1530|year=1985|publisher=Instituto Salazar y Castro (C.S.I.C.)|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400060497}}{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Carlos V : miscelánea de artículos publicados en la revista "Hidalguía"|year=2001|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8489851344}}{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Carlos I de Castilla, señor de las Indias|year=1988|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400067496}}{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=Caminos y derroteros que recorrió el emperador Carlos V : noticias fundamentales para su historia|year=1999|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8489851191}}{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=Vicente de|title=El Concilio de Trento en la época del Emperador Carlos V|year=1990|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8487204180}}{{cite book|last=Cadenas y Vicent|first=[por] Vicente de|title=El protectorado de Carlos V en Génova la "condotta" de Andrea Doria|year=1977|publisher=Instituto Salazar y Castro C.S.I.C.|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400036515}}

• {{cite book|title=El saco de Roma de 1527 por el ejercito de Carlos V|year=1974|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8430060481}}
• {{cite book|title=Actas del último consejo nacional de Falange Española de las J.O.N.S. (Salamanca, 18-19-IV-1937) y algunas noticias referentes a la Jefatura Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda|year=1975|publisher=[s.n.]|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8440085481}}
• {{cite book|title=Fundamentos de heráldica : (ciencia del blasón)|year=1975|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400041830}}
• {{cite book|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Calatrava que efectuaron sus pruebas de ingreso durante el siglo XIX|year=1976|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400034986}}
• {{cite book|title=El protectorado de Carlos V en Génova la "condotta" de Andrea Doria|year=1977|publisher=Instituto Salazar y Castro C.S.I.C.|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400036515}}
• {{cite book|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Santiago : siglo XVIII.|year=1977|publisher=Hidalguia|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400036195}}
• {{cite book|title=La herencia imperial de Carlos V en Italia el Milanesado|year=1978|publisher=Instituto Salazar y Castro C.S.I.C.|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400037284}}
• {{cite book|title=Extracto de los expedientes de la Orden de Carlos 3.⁰ : 1771–1847.|year=1979|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400044817}}
• {{cite book|title=El saco de Prato, la primera reposición de los Médicis en Florencia y la presencia de España en el Milanesado|year=1982|publisher=Instituto "Salazar y Castro" (C.S.I.C.)|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400050368}}
• {{cite book|title=Doble coronación de Carlos V en Bolonia, 22-24/II/1530|year=1985|publisher=Instituto Salazar y Castro (C.S.I.C.)|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400060497}}
• {{cite book|title=Hacienda de Carlos V al fallecer en Yuste|year=1985|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400060503}}
• {{cite book|title=La República de Siena y su anexión a la corona de España|year=1985|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400059132}}
• {{cite book|title=Carlos I de Castilla, señor de las Indias|year=1988|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8400067496}}
• {{cite book|title=El Concilio de Trento en la época del Emperador Carlos V|year=1990|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8487204180}}
• {{cite book|title=Caballeros de la Orden de Alcántara que efectuaron sus pruebas de ingreso durante el siglo XVIII|year=1991|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8487204302}}
• {{cite book|title=Diario del emperador Carlos V : itinerarios, permanencias, despacho, sucesos y efemérides relevantes de su vida|year=1992|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=8487204406}}
• {{cite book|title=Heráldica, genealogía y nobleza en los editoriales de "Hidalguía" : 1953–1993 : 40 años de un pensamiento|year=1993|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8487204548}}
• {{cite book|title=Caminos y derroteros que recorrió el emperador Carlos V : noticias fundamentales para su historia|year=1999|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8489851191}}
• {{cite book|title=Carlos V : miscelánea de artículos publicados en la revista "Hidalguía"|year=2001|publisher=Hidalguía|location=Madrid|isbn=978-8489851344}}

• Bailiff Grand Cross of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George with Collar{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}
• Knight of the Order of St. Januarius{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}
• Commander of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}
• Commander of the Order of Saint Sava{{Cite book|last=Acović|first=Dragomir|title=Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima|year=2012|location=Belgrade|publisher=Službeni Glasnik|pages=648}}
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}

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