Marquess of Terranova

Marquess of Terranova (Spanish: Marqués de Terranova), is a title of Spanish nobility. It was granted along with the Dukedom of Mandas to Pedro Maza de Lizana on 23 December 1614 by king Philip III.[2]

Marquessate of Terranova
Creation date	23 December 1614
Monarch	Philip III
Peerage	Peerage of Spain
First holder	Pedro Maza de Lizana y Carroz, 1st Marquess of Terranova
Present holder	Gabriel Squella y Duque de Estrada, 16th Marquess of Terranova[1]

Pedro Maza de Lizana was the son of Baltasar Maza de Lizana, lord of Castalla and Ayora in Valencia, fief of Mandas in Sardinia, and of Francisca Hurtado de Mendoza, daughter of Luis Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd Marquess of Mondéjar, and Catalina de Mendoza, of the Counts of Monteagudo. He descended from the male line of the Ladrón de Vilanova (or Pallás) family, Viscounts of Chelva and Counts of Sinarcas, but his father adopted the last name Maza de Lizana, of which he had no ancestry, as a testamentary condition of Brianda Maza y Carroz, a distant relative of him, who designated him as the universal heir of her vast assets.

As the 12th Marquess died childless, the title became vacant until it was rehabilitated in the early 1900's by Alfonso XII in favour of José Finat y Carvajal, a descendant of the 9th Marquess. In 1949, the title passed into a different family after a long judiciary process that ruled in favour of Ricardo Squella as a more favourable descendant.[3]