Calle Marqués de Ahumada
It bears the name of the Marquisate of Ahumada, a title created on 7 April 1764 by Charles III for Catalina de Vera y Leiva. Rehabilitated in 1850, it passed to the Girón family, descendants of the founder of the Guardia Civil. Agustín Girón y Aragón, 3rd Marquis, served as deputy mayor of Madrid.
Charles III created the Marquisate of Ahumada in 1764 for Catalina de Vera y Leiva. The title lay dormant until the Girón family rehabilitated it in 1850.
The name owes its weight to one particular ancestor: Francisco Javier Girón y Ezpeleta (Pamplona, 1803 – Madrid, 1869), 2nd Duke of Ahumada, who by decree of 1844 organised the Guardia Civil and led it until 1854. The surname that names this street belongs to the family of the corps’s founder. The title would pass to Agustín Girón y Aragón, 3rd Marquis of Ahumada and 4th Duke of Ahumada, Grandee of Spain and deputy mayor of Madrid.
The street belongs to La Guindalera, a neighbourhood systematically developed from the Madrid Moderno colony of 1890. Its streets took on the names of aristocrats and soldiers, and this is one of them. The municipal resolution that fixed this naming has not been found, nor is it recorded which of the marquises it honours exactly.