Hidalgo
Hidalgo and Fidalgo (in Galician and Portuguese) are traditional titles for men of the Spanish nobility and of the Portuguese nobility, and of the gentry of each monarchy. The word hidalgo is a contraction of the phrases hijo de algo (″son of something″) and hijo de alguien (″son of someone″). In formal, social usage, the Spanish court rigorously regulated who was and who was not entitled to call himself Un hidalgo; by extension, in Spanish cultural usage, the word hidalgo is applied to describe a man who is of a noble and generous spirit, ″a gentleman″ (un caballero).
In Mexican culture and history, the word hidalgo is the surname of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753–1811), and so refers to the Jesuit priest who was the first warlord of the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821) from Spain.
The name Hidalgo also refers to:
Places
Mexico
- Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico
- Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in the north Mexican state of Coahuila
- Hidalgo, Nuevo León, a city in the state of Nuevo León
- Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, a municipality in the state of Tamaulipas
- Miguel Hidalgo, D.F., a borough of the Federal District
- Hidalgo Yalalag, Oaxaca
- Frontera Hidalgo, Chiapas
- Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas
- Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán
- Villa Hidalgo, Baja California
- Villa Hidalgo (Northern Chiapas), Chiapas
- Villa Hidalgo (Southern Chiapas), Chiapas
- Villa Hidalgo, Coahuila
- Villa Hidalgo, Durango
- Villa Hidalgo, Jalisco
- Villa Hidalgo, Nayarit
- Villa Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí
- Villa Hidalgo, Sonora
- Villa Hidalgo, Tamaulipas
- Villa Hidalgo, Zacatecas
- Villa Hidalgo (Santa Rita), Zacatecas
United States
Fiction
- In the Doc Savage stories ″Hidalgo″ is the name of a fictional country in Central America
Other uses
- Hidalgo (surname)
- In the film Hidalgo, it is the name of the horse of the character Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen)
- Hidalgo Limited, a technology design company based in Cambridge, UK, developer of Equivital
- Hidalgo (Sherry), a Spanish Sherry producer
- Hidalgo (moth), a moth genus
- 944 Hidalgo, an asteroid
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ended the Mexican–American War
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