Calle del Marqués de Monteagudo
The street bears the noble title created on 1 August 1887, during the regency of Maria Christina of Habsburg, in favour of Josefa Jabat y Magallón (Madrid, 1847 – 1908). The marquisate takes its name from Monteagudo (Navarre), a town whose lordship passed from the Gramont family to the Beaumonts and to the Magallón family, distinguished with the marquisate of San Adrián in 1729.
When this Guindalera street received its name, it honoured a title barely a decade old. The Marquisate of Monteagudo was created by royal decree of 1 August 1887, during the regency of Maria Christina of Habsburg. The first to hold it was Josefa Jabat y Magallón (Madrid, 1847–1908), who on her mother’s side descended from the house of the marquesses of San Adrián.
The name travels far further back than the title. It points to Monteagudo, a Navarrese town of probable Arabic origin that Alfonso the Battler conquered in 1119. For three centuries it belonged to the kings of Navarre, until in 1429 it passed to Mosén Florestán de Gramont; from there the lordship was inherited, first by the Beaumonts and then by the Magallón family.
The calle de Monteagudo fell within the Guindalera, a neighbourhood developed between 1890 and the 1930s. Neither the municipal agreement that fixed the name nor its exact date has survived.