VI EDITION
Ms. Carla Rahn Phillips
The jury of the International Spanish Orders History Award has chosen Carla Rahn Phillips as the winner of the VI Edition, for her long career as a researcher and teacher of the Spanish Navy, defender of Spain’s maritime interests, and one of the oldest naval forces in the world.
The award winner is the archetype of the Hispanist who, as a rigorous scientist and entertaining disseminator, with the sole weapons of rigorous research and an enviable style, has made known for half a century the richness and nuances of our civilization, teacher, among other things, of navigators, dispelling self-interested myths and guilty ignorance. The hundreds of international students of Professor Rahn Phillips are the best legacy defender of a historical reality that is now being slammed.
The main focus of his research has been “this galleon, a transmitter of knowledge, ideas, invested technology and reversed material and spiritual wealth. A microcosm of coexistence, of techniques and aspirations whose knowledge must be expanded through the preservation and scientific and respectful excavation of the wrecks, of the last remains that the bottom of the sea has preserved and that greed and the most primitive populism threaten to desecrate, as well as the just memory of those who risked embarking on them, crewed them and perhaps defended them, so often without success, in their condition and stature not as novel heroes but as mere men”, say the jury of the Award.
Carla Rahn Phillips has also published several books, including “The Magellan-Elcano Expedition”, a voyage begun by Ferdinand Magellan in 1519 and completed by Juan Sebastian Elcano in 1522, one of the most famous in the history of exploration, and “The Treasure of the San Jose”, a Spanish galleon that, according to legend, carried the most valuable cargo ever lost at sea.
The jury, which met on April 4, was presided over by H.R.H. Don Pedro de Borbón Dos Sicilias y de Orleans, Duke of Calabria, president of the Royal Council of the Orders of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcántara and Montesa.
The jury was chaired by H.R.H. Don Pedro de Borbón Dos Sicilias y de Orleans, Duke of Calabria, president in turn of the Royal Council of the Orders of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcántara and Montesa.
Vice-president:
- Don Juan Castillejo y de Oriol, Duke of San Miguel, president of Grupo Somos.
Members:
- Doña. Ana de la Cueva Fernández, president of Patrimonio Nacional.
- Don Hugo O’Donnell y Duque de Estrada, Duke of Tetuán, censor of the R.A. de la Historia.
- Don Feliciano Barrios Pintado, secretary of the R.A. de la Historia.
- Don Luis Antonio Ribot García, academician of the R.A. de la Historia.
- Ms. Carmen Sanz Ayán, academic of the R.A. de la Historia.
- Mr. Giovanni Muto, winner of the V Edition of the Premio de Historia Órdenes Españolas.
- Ms. Micaela Valdés y Ozores, censor of the Real Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País and correspondent of the R. A. of History.
- Don Carlos de Palacio Oriol, president of the Talgo Foundation.
- Don Raimundo Pérez-Hernández y Torra, director of the Ramón Areces Foundation.
- Don Manuel Pardo de Vera, president of the Royal Association of Hidalgos of Spain.
- Don Marcelino Oreja y Aguirre, marquis of Oreja, academician and honorary president of the R. A. of Moral and Political Sciences. A. of Moral and Political Sciences.
- Don Iñigo Moreno y de Arteaga, Marquis of Laserna, corresponding to the R.A. of History.
- Don Manuel Gullón y de Oñate, conde de Tepa, Count of Tepa, Gentleman of His Holiness. Secretary.
Secretario:
- Don Álvaro Mariátegui y Valdés.
Trustee-Treasurer of the Fundación Órdenes Españolas and of the Premio de Historia Órdenes Españolas:
- Don Iñigo de Churruca y Bonilla.
The award ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Royal Monastery of El Escorial (Madrid).
