Was it because of those Spanish hidalgoes wrecked on the Irish coast long since?

He was, as has been said, a Spanish hidalgo, of the glorious old Castilian order.

After all a Spanish hidalgo in command of the garrison was a distinguished person, and, alas!

Or he introduces us to a Spanish hidalgo, "tall, wry-necked, and awkwardly built, with a nose like a lamprey and feet like coracles."