Years of service 1896–1939 Service/branch Spanish Army Place of burial Seville, Spain | Name Gonzalo de Rank Captain General | |
Birth name Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra Born February 5, 1875
Tordesillas, Castilla y Leon, Spain ( 1875-02-05 ) Buried at La Macarena Basilica, Seville, Andalusia, Spain (37°24′09″N 5°59′22″W / 37.402525°N 5.989407°W / 37.402525; -5.989407) Allegiance Kingdom of Spain (1896–1931)
Spanish Republic (1931–1936)
Nationalist Spain (1936–1951) Commands held Nationalist Army of the South
Captain General of Andalusia
Captain General of Madrid Died March 9, 1951, Seville, Spain Battles and wars Spanish–American War, Rif War, Spanish Civil War Similar People Emilio Mola, Jose Sanjurjo, Miguel Cabanellas, Francisco Franco, Manuel Goded Llopis | ||
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Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 1st Marquis of Queipo de Llano (5 February 1875 – 9 March 1951) was a Spanish military leader who rose to prominence during Francisco Franco's coup d'état and the subsequent Spanish Civil War and Spanish White Terror.
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Biography
A career Army man, de Llano was a brigadier general in 1923 when he began to speak out against the army and Miguel Primo de Rivera. Demoted, he served three years in prison but refused to stop criticizing even on his release, as a result of which he was dismissed altogether in 1928. In 1930, he became a revolutionary but on a failed attempt to overthrow King Alfonso XIII, he fled to Portugal. He returned to his native land in 1931 after the departure of Alfonso XIII and assumed command of the 1st Military District of the Spanish Republican Army. He was later appointed by Niceto Alcalá Zamora to the Chief of the military staff of the President (Queipo's daughter was married to a son of Alcalá Zamora). Even as he rose in prominence, he remained critical of the shifting governments, joining in on a plot to overthrow the Popular Front government in May, 1936.
During the Spanish Civil War, de Llano secured the capture of Seville with a force of at least 4,000 troops. There, he ordered mass killings. Subsequently, he was appointed the commander of the Nationalist Army of the South. His influence began to decline in February 1938, when Francisco Franco named himself Sole Head of the New State and appointed his brother-in-law Ramón Serrano Súñer Minister of the Interior and Propaganda.
