Marquess of Saint Philip

Marquess of Saint Philip, also spelled as Marquis of Saint Philip or St. Philip (in Spanish: Marqués de San Felipe; in Italian: Marchese di San Filippo) is a granted in 1709 by Philip V, king of Spain and, at that time, claimant king of Sardinia, to the Sardinian nobleman and politician Vicente Bacallar. It has passed afterwards to the house Amat.

Vicente Bacallar y Sanna (as in the Spanish and Sardinian use, with both the father's and the mother's surnames) was a military officer and politician who supported Philip of Anjou, the heir appointed by the last Habsburg king Charles II, in the War of the Spanish Succession. For this reason, he had to flow in exile when the other claimant, Charles of Austria, took control over Sardinia. As an award to Bacallar's loyalty, Philip, now Philip V of Spain, made him Viscount of Fuente Hermosa and Marquess of St. Philip (as a homage to his own patron saint). Bacallar became later an important historian, linguist and political philosopher while still serving as military and diplomat.

Bacallar's only surviving issue was his daughter Maria Josefa, who married Francisco Amat of an ancient and distinguished Sardinian house of Catalan origin, son of the Marquess of Villarios. In accordance with Spanish and Sardinian succession rules at that time, she inherited the titles and has transmitted them to her issue. Amat firstborn (the eldest male) has brought the title of Marquess of St. Philip since (the Viscountcy being laid down, although no formal act of disclaimer has ever been issued), and they were recognized as such in Italian official registers until the Italian Republic ceased to recognize nobility titles. Along with the titles, Amat has inherited the name Vicente, or Vincenzo in Italian.

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