Hugo O'Donnell, Duke of Tetuan

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Don Hugo O'Donnell (born September 29, 1948) is the Duke of Tetuan, a Spanish noble title commemorating the conquest of Tetuan in Morocco, by his ancestor, Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, 1st Duque de Tetuan and former Prime Minister of Spain, in the mid-19th century. He is known as S.E. Don Hugo O'Donnell y Duque de Estrada, and his succession to his father, Don Leopoldo O'Donnell y Lara, as Duke of Tetuan and Grandee of Spain, was confirmed per decree BOE 240 of October 7, 2005 issued by the Ministry of Justice in Madrid. Don Hugo is an active member of the Clan Association of the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell, and is a Knight of Malta. He is a naval historian and former naval commander and Minister for the Marine. He is also a member of the Royal Academy of History (Real Academia de la Historia) in Spain.

He is the Tánaiste (or heir apparent) to The O'Donnell of Tyrconnell, Prince and Chief of the Name of the O'Donnell, who is a Franciscan priest, Fr. Hugh O'Donel, living in Africa, whom he will succeed as Chief of the Name and Prince.

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Erin’s Blood Royal – The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland, by Peter Berresford Ellis, Constable, London, 1999, (pages 251-258 on the O’Donel, Prince of Tirconnell).
Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (Annála Ríoghachta Éireann) by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, compiled during the period 1632-1636 by Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, translated and edited by John O'Donovan in 1856, and re-published in 1998 by De Burca, Dublin.
The Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell (Beatha Aodh Rua O Domhnaill) by Lughaidh O'Cleirigh. Edited by Paul Walsh and Colm Ó Lochlainn. Irish Texts Society, vol. 42. Dublin: Educational Company of Ireland, 1948 (original Gaelic manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin).
Vicissitudes of Families, by Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, published by Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, Paternoster Row, London, 1861. (Chapter on O’Donnells, pages 125-148).
The Fate and Fortunes of the Earls of Tyrone (Hugh O’Neill) and Tyrconnel (Rory O’Donel), their flight from Ireland and death in exile, by the Rev. C. P. Meehan, M.R.I.A., 2nd edition, James Duffy, London, 1870.
Vanishing Kingdoms - The Irish Chiefs and Their Families, by Walter J. P. Curley (former US Ambassador to Ireland), with foreword by Charles Lysaght, published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2004 [ISBN 1-84351-055-3 & ISBN 1-84351-056-1]. (Chapter on O'Donnell of Tyrconnell, page 59).