The Gentilhombres Grandes de España con ejercicio y servidumbre (Gentlemen of the Bedchamber Grandee of Spain) was a palatial class of honorary royal servants of the Royal Household and Heritage of the Crown of Spain, who were entrusted with certain functions at the service of the Monarch which they exercised by rigorous seniority.
From the ceremonial point of view - in royal baptisms - seven of them were entrusted to deliver the sacred ornaments for the sacrament (saltcellar, water-jug, cottons, brush etc.).
In official banquets and in the annual opening of the Cortes Generales (Spanish Parliament), the Gentilhombre Grande de España in service were always behind the King.
To be nominated for this class, it was necessary to not only to belong to the nobility but also to be a Grandee of Spain, and they had to be previously presented to the King in the so-called ceremony of the Cobertura (Coverage).
At the moment of the suppression, there remained 213 Gentilhombres Grandes de España con ejercicio y servidumbre at service.