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Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent (29 April 1915 – 21 December 2005) was aCronista Rey de Armas ("Chronicler King of Arms") of theKingdom of Spain.

A native ofMadrid,Spain, Cadenas was born on 29 April 1915, the son of Francisco de Cadenas y Gaztañaga and Vicenta Vicent y Nogués.^[1] Beginning in 1932, he studied the fields ofhistory andjournalism, at theUniversity of Madrid. He maintained dual professions as both the Chronicler of Arms and as a journalist. He was for many years a member of the Deputation of the Constantinian Order, of which he was Secretary and which he joined in 1960 upon the succession of theInfante D. Alfonso as Grand Master.^{[citation needed]}

Cadenas founded theAsociación de Hidalgos a Fuero de España in 1954 to obtain the recognition of the untitled nobility(nobleza llana).^{[citation needed]} In 1953 he founded the reviewHidalguía (with the particular aim of challenging false genealogies, fake titles and pseudo orders of chivalry) and theInstituto Internacional de Genealogía y Heráldica.^{[citation needed]} The following year he founded theInstituto Luis de Salazar y Castro and in the following years theColegio Mayor Marqués de la Ensenada, theCasasolar Santo Duque de Gandía, and theCasa Quinta Vita Natural Durante, each of which were dependent on the Association of Hidalgos.^{[citation needed][further explanation needed]}

He also organized two meetings of theInternational Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences inMadrid (1955 and 1982^[2]) The 15th Congress met in Madrid from 19 to 25 September in 1982 under the presidency of His Royal HighnessInfante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (a cousin to KingJuan Carlos I of Spain who opened the meeting) with Vicente de Cadenas serving as one of three vice presidents.^[2]

He published books and articles on historical themes as well as heraldry, genealogy, chivalric orders and documentary sciences.^{[example needed]} Between 1976 and 1991, Vicente wrote articles on three of the four Spanishmilitary orders: theOrder of Alcántara,^[3] theOrder of Calatrava,^[4] and theOrder of Santiago.^[5]Actas del último consejo nacional de Falange Española de las J.O.N.S. (Salamanca, 18-19-IV-1937) y algunas noticias referentes a la Jefatura Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda, was a study of the last meeting of theFalange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista following the death of its founderJosé Antonio Primo de Rivera.^[6] Vicente reviewed the circumstances which led the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista to fall under the control ofFrancisco Franco and the use he made of the movement.^[7] He wrote a multi-volume study of the life and achievements of theEmperor Charles V (who was also, King Charles I of Spain).^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

• El saco de Roma de 1527 por el ejercito de Carlos V. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1974.ISBN 978-8430060481.
• Actas del último consejo nacional de Falange Española de las J.O.N.S. (Salamanca, 18-19-IV-1937) y algunas noticias referentes a la Jefatura Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda. Madrid: [s.n.] 1975.ISBN 978-8440085481.
• Fundamentos de heráldica : (ciencia del blasón). Madrid: Hidalguía. 1975.ISBN 978-8400041830.
• Caballeros de la Orden de Calatrava que efectuaron sus pruebas de ingreso durante el siglo XIX. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1976.ISBN 978-8400034986.
• El protectorado de Carlos V en Génova la "condotta" de Andrea Doria. Madrid: Instituto Salazar y Castro C.S.I.C. 1977.ISBN 978-8400036515.
• Caballeros de la Orden de Santiago : siglo XVIII. Madrid: Hidalguia. 1977.ISBN 978-8400036195.
• La herencia imperial de Carlos V en Italia el Milanesado. Madrid: Instituto Salazar y Castro C.S.I.C. 1978.ISBN 978-8400037284.
• Extracto de los expedientes de la Orden de Carlos 3.⁰ : 1771–1847. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1979.ISBN 978-8400044817.
• El saco de Prato, la primera reposición de los Médicis en Florencia y la presencia de España en el Milanesado. Madrid: Instituto "Salazar y Castro" (C.S.I.C.). 1982.ISBN 978-8400050368.
• Doble coronación de Carlos V en Bolonia, 22-24/II/1530. Madrid: Instituto Salazar y Castro (C.S.I.C.). 1985.ISBN 978-8400060497.
• Hacienda de Carlos V al fallecer en Yuste. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1985.ISBN 978-8400060503.
• La República de Siena y su anexión a la corona de España. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1985.ISBN 978-8400059132.
• Carlos I de Castilla, señor de las Indias. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1988.ISBN 978-8400067496.
• El Concilio de Trento en la época del Emperador Carlos V. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1990.ISBN 978-8487204180.
• Caballeros de la Orden de Alcántara que efectuaron sus pruebas de ingreso durante el siglo XVIII. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1991.ISBN 978-8487204302.</
• Diario del emperador Carlos V : itinerarios, permanencias, despacho, sucesos y efemérides relevantes de su vida. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1992.ISBN 8487204406.
• Heráldica, genealogía y nobleza en los editoriales de "Hidalguía" : 1953–1993 : 40 años de un pensamiento. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1993.ISBN 978-8487204548.
• Caminos y derroteros que recorrió el emperador Carlos V : noticias fundamentales para su historia. Madrid: Hidalguía. 1999.ISBN 978-8489851191.
• Carlos V : miscelánea de artículos publicados en la revista "Hidalguía". Madrid: Hidalguía. 2001.ISBN 978-8489851344.

• Bailiff Grand Cross of theSacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George with Collar^{[citation needed]}
• Knight of theOrder of St. Januarius^{[citation needed]}
• Commander of theOrder of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa^{[citation needed]}
• Commander of theOrder of Saint Sava^[15]
• Knight Grand Cross of theOrder of Civil Merit^{[citation needed]}
• Knight Grand Cross of theOrder of Isabella the Catholic^{[citation needed]}

• 1915 births
• 2005 deaths
• Officers of arms
• Spanish genealogists
• Commanders of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
• Commanders of the Order of St. Sava
• Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit
• Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic

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