Count of Senia
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The Count of Senia is a title of Maltese nobility. As of 2005, the present Count is Joseph Bugeja Fontani, the 6th Count of Senia. His heir is his son, Mark Bugeja Fontani, styled the Contino.
[edit] Origin
The title was granted to Vincenzo Fontani-Crespi in 1795 by Grand Master de Rohan-Polduc of Count of Senia. The title was annexed to the estates of Tas-Senja, in the Marsa area, and the estates were raised to the dignity of a feudal tenure.
[edit] Succession
The second Count Senia was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III of Spain, who married a daughter of the 5th Count of Mont'Alto, his son the third count died childless in 1906. The title then went to the third Count's sister's eldest daughter and next of kin, one Rosalea Crinquant-Fontani.
The title went into abeyance in 1945. And was claimed by the next of kin in 1983, by Joseph Bugeja-Fontani, who became the 6th Count of Senia.
[edit] References
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