This is a List of Ambassadors of Spain to England and to the United Kingdom
Introduction
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor sent ambassadors to England representing the Empire, as well as Spain. When the Catholic Reformation began, Spain was in the opposite camp to Protestant England.
In the second half of the seventeenth century, Spain sometimes supported the English because, like them, it feared the hegemony in Europe that France and its king Louis XIV had achieved after the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).
After the Frenchman Philip of Anjou became King of Spain in 1700, during most of the eighteenth century, Spain again stood on the side of France, and was an opponent of Great Britain. It was not until the French Revolution that the two conservative countries, Spain and Great Britain, reconciled against the revolutionaries.
Spanish ambassadors, envoys and ministers plenipotentiary to England (1514–1707)
15th century
1483-1483 Jofre de Sasiola (1st term) 1485-1489 Rodrigo González de la Puebla (1st term) 1491-1492 Jofre de Sasiola (2nd term) 1494-1508 Rodrigo González de la Puebla (2nd term) 1497-1500 Pedro de Ayala (1st term) 1498-1498 Sancho de Londoño and Fray Tomás de Matienzo 1499-1499 Don Juan Manuel, lord of Belmonte 1499-1499 Hernán Duque de Estrada (1st term)
16th century
1500-1500 Gutierrez Gomez de Fuensalida (1st term) 1501-1502 Don Pedro de Ayala (2nd term) 1502-1504 Hernán Duque de Estrada (2nd term) 1507-1510 Catherine of Aragon 1508-1509 Gutierrez Gomez de Fuensalida (2nd term) 1509-1514 Luis Caroz 1514–1522 Bernardo de Mesa 1516–1516 George of Theimseke 1518–1519 Jean Jonglet (1st term) 1519-1520 Philip Haneton, señor de Lindt 1520-1520 John III of Glymes 1520-1520 Laurent de Gouvenot 1522–1525 Louis of Praet 1525–1525 Jean La Sauche 1525-1525 Adolf of Burgundy 1525-1525 Ferry Laureyns 1525-1525 Rodrigo de Peñalosa Toledo 1525–1526 Jean Jonglet (2nd term) 1526–1529 Iñigo López de Mendoza y Zúñiga 1529–1545 Eustace Chapuys 1536-1538 Diego Hurtado de Mendoza 1539–1540 Philippe Maioris 1543-1543 Ferrante Gonzaga 1544-1544 Beltrán de la Cueva, 3rd Duke of Alburquerque 1544–1550 François van der Delft 1545-1545 Baudoin de Lannoy 1547-1547 Thomas Perrenot de Granvelle 1549-1549 Diego Hurtado de Mendoza 1549-1549 Juan III de Silva 1550–1553 Jean Scheyfve 1553–1555 Simon Renard 1553-1554 Jehan de Montmorency 1554-1554 Lamoral, Count of Egmont 1554-1554 Charles II de Lalaing 1554-1554 Philippe Negri 1554-1554 Pedro de Ávila y Zúñiga 1558-1558 Christophe d´Assonleville 1558-1559 Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria 1559-1559 Christophe d´Assonleville 1559-1563 Álvaro de la Quadra 1559-1559 Caspar Breuner, barón de Rabenstein: 1559-1559 Don Juan de Ayala 1560-1560 Philippe de Stavele 1560-1560 Juan Pacheco de Toledo 1563-1563 Christophe d´Assonleville 1564-1568 Diego Guzmán de Silva 1568-1572 Guerau de Espés 1569-1569 Christophe d´Assonleville 1569-1569 Chiappino Vitelli 1572-1578 Antonio de Guarás 1574-1574 Bernardino de Mendoza (1st term) 1578-1584 Bernardino de Mendoza (2nd term) 1584-1603 Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
17th century
1603–1604 Juan de Tassis, 1st Count of Villamediana
1603-1604 Charles de Ligne, 2nd Prince of Arenberg
1604-1604 Carlos Coloma (1st term) 1605-1609 Pedro de Zúñiga y de la Cueva 1609-1613 Alonso de Velasco y Salinas 1612-1612 Pedro de Zúñiga y de la Cueva (2nd term) 1612–1622 Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar 1623-1624 Juan de Mendoza, Marquis de la Hinojosa 1624–1624 Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar (2nd term) 1624-1624 Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Guevara 1622-1624 Carlos Coloma (2nd term) 1627-1630 Peter Paul Rubens 1629-1631 Carlos Coloma (3rd term) 1632-1636 Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 8th Count of Oñate 1638-1655 Alonso de Peralta y Cárdenas 1640-1641 Antonio Sancho Davila, Marquis of Velada 1640-1641 Virgilio Malvezzi 1655-1660 Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) 1660-1662 Alonso Rancano 1660-1660 Jean Charles de Watteville 1660-1660 Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne 1660-1662 Charles Watteville de Joux 1663-1665 Patricio Moledi 1665-1672 Antonio de Tobar y Paz 1671-1674 Pedro de Velasco y Tovar 1674-1676 Pedro Ronquillo Briceño (1st term) 1675-1677 Jean-Baptiste de Brouchoven 1676-1677 Bernardo Salinas 1677-1680 Carlo Emmanuel d'Este 1678-1679 Louis Philip of Egmont 1679-1691 Pedro Ronquillo Briceño (2nd term) 1685-1685 Sebastián de Andía y Henríquez 1691-1691 Francisco Antonio Navarro 1690-1699 Manuel Coloma Escolano