Ferdinand VII

King of Spain, 1808 and 1813–1833

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Ferdinand VII

Portrait by Vicente López Portaña, c. 1814–15

King of Spain

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1st reign| 19 March 1808 – 6 May 1808
Predecessor| Charles IV
Successor| Joseph I or Napoleon I
Prime ministers|

See list

* Víctor Damián Sáez
(1823–1823)
* The Marquess of Casa Irujo
(1823–1823)
* The Count of Ofalia
(1823–1824)
* Francisco Cea Bermúdez
(1824–1825)
* The Duke of the Infantado
(1825–1826)
* Manuel González Salmón
(1826–1832)
* The Count of la Alcudia
(1833–1833)

2nd reign| 11 December 1813 – 29 September 1833
Predecessor| Joseph I
Successor| Isabella II

Born| 14 October 1784
El Escorial, Spain
Died| 29 September 1833(1833-09-29) (aged 48)
Madrid, Spain
Burial|

El Escorial

Spouses|

Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily

(m. 1802; died 1806)​

Maria Isabel of Portugal

(m. 1816; died 1818)​

Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony

(m. 1819; died 1829)​

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies

(m. 1829)​

Issue
more...| Isabella II
Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier
| Names

Spanish: Fernando Francisco de Paula Domingo Vincente Ferrer Antonio José Joaquín Pascual Diego Juan Nepomuceno Januario Francisco Javier Rafael Miguel Gabriel Calisto Cayetano Fausto Luis Raimundo Gregorio Lorenzo Jerónimo de Borbón y Borbón-Parma
House| Bourbon
Father| Charles IV of Spain
Mother| Maria Luisa of Parma
Religion| Roman Catholicism
Signature|

Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808 and then again from 1813 to his death in 1833. Before 1813 he was known as el Deseado (the Desired), and after, as el Rey Felón (the Criminal King).

Born in Madrid at El Escorial, Ferdinand was heir apparent to the Spanish throne in his youth. Following the 1808 Tumult of Aranjuez, he ascended the throne. That year Napoleon overthrew him; he linked his monarchy to counter-revolution and reactionary policies that produced a deep rift in Spain between his forces on the right and liberals on the left. Back in power in December 1813, he re-established the absolutist monarchy and rejected the liberal constitution of 1812. A revolt in 1820 led by Rafael del Riego forced him to restore the constitution, starting the Liberal Triennium, a three-year period of liberal rule. In 1823 the Congress of Verona authorized a successful French intervention, restoring him to absolute power for the second time. He suppressed the liberal press from 1814 to 1833, jailing many of its editors and writers.

Under his rule, Spain lost nearly all of its American possessions, and the country entered into a large-scale civil war upon his death. His political legacy has remained contested since his death; some historians regard him as incompetent, despotic, and short-sighted.[1][2][better source needed]

## Early life

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Young Ferdinand as Prince of Asturias, 1800 Silver coin: 8 reales New Spain with a portrait of King Fernando VII, 1810[3] Silver coin: 8 reales Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata with a portrait of King Fernando VII, 1823 [4]

Ferdinand was the eldest surviving son of Charles IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma. Ferdinand was born in the palace of El Escorial near Madrid. In his youth Ferdinand occupied the position of an heir apparent who was excluded from any participation in government by his parents and their favourite advisor and Prime Minister, Manuel Godoy. National discontent with the government produced a rebellion in 1805.[5] In October 1807, Ferdinand was arrested for his complicity in the El Escorial Conspiracy in which the rebels aimed at securing foreign support from the French Emperor Napoleon. When the conspiracy was discovered, Ferdinand submitted to his parents.

## First reign and abdication

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Royal Monogram Constitution of 1812

Following a popular riot at Aranjuez Charles IV abdicated in March 1808.[5] Ferdinand ascended the throne and turned to Napoleon for support. He abdicated on 6 May 1808, and thereafter Napoleon kept Ferdinand under guard in France for six years at the Château de Valençay.[6] Historian Charles Oman records that the choice of Valençay was a practical joke by Napoleon on his former foreign minister Talleyrand, the owner of the château, for his lack of interest in Spanish affairs.[7]

While the upper echelons of the Spanish government accepted his abdication and Napoleon's choice of his brother Joseph Bonaparte as king of Spain, the Spanish people did not. Uprisings broke out throughout the country, marking the beginning of the Peninsular War.[8] Provincial juntas were established to control regions in opposition to the new French king. After the Battle of Bailén proved that the Spanish could resist the French, the Council of Castile reversed itself and declared null and void the abdications of Bayonne on 11 August 1808. On 24 August, Ferdinand VII was proclaimed king of Spain again, and negotiations between the council and the provincial juntas for the establishment of a Supreme Central Junta were completed. On 14 January 1809 the British government acknowledged Ferdinand VII as king of Spain.[9]

## Second reign

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### Restoration

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See also: History of Spain (1810–1873) § Reaction (1814–1820)

Five years later after experiencing serious setbacks on many fronts, Napoleon agreed on 11 December 1813 to acknowledge Ferdinand VII as king of Spain, and signed the Treaty of Valençay so that the king could return to Spain. The Spanish people, blaming the policies of the Francophiles (afrancesados) for causing the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular War by allying Spain too closely to France, at first welcomed Fernando.[10] Ferdinand soon found that in the intervening years a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution.[5] In his name Spain fought for its independence and in his name as well juntas had governed Spanish America. Spain was no longer the absolute monarchy he had relinquished six years earlier. Instead he was now asked to rule under the liberal Constitution of 1812. Before being allowed onto Spanish soil, Ferdinand had to guarantee the liberals that he would govern on the basis of the constitution, but only gave lukewarm indications he would do so.[11]

On 24 March the French handed him over to the Spanish Army in Girona, and thus began his procession towards Madrid.[12] During this process and in the following months, he was encouraged by conservatives and the Church hierarchy to reject the constitution. On 4 May he ordered its abolition, and on 10 May had the liberal leaders responsible for the constitution arrested. Ferdinand justified his actions by claiming that the constitution had been made by a Cortes illegally assembled in his absence, without his consent and without the traditional form. (It had met as a unicameral body, instead of in three chambers representing the three estates: the clergy, the nobility and the cities.)[citation needed] Ferdinand initially promised to convene a traditional Cortes, but never did so, thereby reasserting the Bourbon doctrine that sovereign authority resided in his person only.[5]

Portrait of Ferdinand VII of Spain in his robes of state by Francisco Goya (1815), Prado

Meanwhile, the wars of independence had broken out in the Americas, and although many of the republican rebels were divided and royalist sentiment was strong in many areas, the Spanish treasure fleets – carrying tax revenues from the Spanish Empire – were interrupted. Spain was all but bankrupt.

Ferdinand's restored autocracy was guided by a small camarilla of his favorites, although his government seemed unstable. Whimsical and ferocious by turns, he changed his ministers every few months. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "himself enters the houses of his prime ministers, arrests them, and hands them over to their cruel enemies;" and again, on 14 January 1815, "the king has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and prison warden of his country."[5]

The king did recognize the efforts of foreign powers on his behalf. As the head of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece, Ferdinand made the Duke of Wellington, head of the British forces on the peninsula, the first Protestant member of the order.

During the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, the general of the Army of the Three Guarantees, Agustín de Iturbide, and Jefe Superior Juan O'Donojú, signed the Treaty of Córdoba, which concluded the war of independence and established the First Mexican Empire. The imperial constitution contemplated that the monarch would be "a Spanish prince," and Iturbide and O'Donojú intended to offer the Mexican Imperial Crown to Ferdinand VII himself to rule Mexico in personal union with Spain. However, Ferdinand, refusing to recognize Mexican independence or be bound by a constitution, decreed that the Mexican constitution was "void", declined the Mexican crown, and stated that no European prince could accede to the Mexican throne.[13] The imperial crown was consequently given to Iturbide himself, but the Mexican Empire collapsed and was replaced by the First Mexican Republic a few years later.

### Revolt

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See also: Trienio Liberal

Equestrian portrait of Ferdinand by José de Madrazo y Agudo, 1821 Triumphal welcome of Ferdinand at Valencia, 1815

There were several pronunciamientos, or military uprisings, during the king's second reign. The first came in in September 1814, three months after the end of the Peninsular War, and was led by General Espoz y Mina in Pamplona. Juan Díaz Porlier revolted at La Coruña in the following year. General Luis Lacy led an uprising in Barcelona in 1817, and General Juan Van Halen did the same in Valencia in 1818.[14] In 1820 Rafael del Riego undertook the most successful pronunciamiento, leading to the Trienio Liberal.

In 1820 a revolt broke out in favor of the Constitution of 1812, beginning with a mutiny of the troops under Riego. The king was quickly taken prisoner. Ferdinand had restored the Jesuits upon his return, but now they had become identified with repression and absolutism among the liberals, who attacked them: twenty-five Jesuits were slain in Madrid in 1822. For the rest of the 19th century, liberal political regimes expelled the Jesuits, and authoritarian regimes reinstated them.

In the spring of 1823, the restored Bourbon French King Louis XVIII of France invaded Spain, "invoking the God of St. Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a fellow descendant of Henry IV of France, and of reconciling that fine kingdom with Europe." In May 1823 the revolutionary party moved Ferdinand to Cádiz, where he continued to make promises of constitutional amendment until he was free.[15]

When Ferdinand was freed after the Battle of Trocadero and the fall of Cádiz, reprisals followed. The Duc d'Angoulême made known his protest against Ferdinand's actions by refusing the Spanish decorations Ferdinand offered him for his military services.[15]

During his last years, Ferdinand's political appointments became more stable.[15] The last ten years of his reign (sometimes referred to as the Ominous Decade) saw the restoration of absolutism, the re-establishment of traditional university programs and the suppression of any opposition, both by the Liberal Party and by the reactionary revolt (known as "War of the Agraviados") which broke out in 1827 in Catalonia and other regions.

### Death and succession crisis

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In May 1830, Ferdinand VII published the Pragmatic Sanction, again allowing daughters to succeed to the Spanish throne as well as sons. This decree had originally been approved by the Cortes in 1789, but it had never been officially promulgated. On 10 October 1830, Ferdinand's wife gave birth to a daughter, Isabella, who thereupon displaced her uncle, Carlos, in the line of succession.[16] After Ferdinand's death, Carlos revolted and said he was the legitimate king. Needing support, Maria Christina, as regent for her daughter, turned to the liberals.[17] She issued a decree of amnesty on 23 October 1833. Liberals who had been in exile returned and dominated Spanish politics for decades, leading to the Carlist Wars.[18][19]

## Legacy

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Ferdinand VII's reign is typically criticized by historians, even in his own country. Historian Stanley G. Payne wrote that Ferdinand was "in many ways the basest king in Spanish history. Cowardly, selfish, grasping, suspicious, and vengeful, D. Fernando seemed almost incapable of any perception of the commonwealth."[20]

## Marriages

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Ferdinand VII and María Cristina by Luis de la Cruz y Ríos (1832)

Ferdinand VII married four times. His first wife died of tuberculosis, the second died in childbirth, and the third died of "a fever".[21] His fourth wife outlived him by 45 years.

In 1802, he married his first cousin Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (1784–1806), daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Marie Caroline of Austria. Her two pregnancies in 1804 and 1805 both ended in miscarriages.

In 1816, Ferdinand married his niece Maria Isabel of Portugal (1797–1818), daughter of his older sister Carlota Joaquina and John VI of Portugal. They had a daughter who lived only five months, and a stillborn daughter.

On 20 October 1819, in Madrid, Ferdinand married the daughter of his father's first cousin Maximilian, Prince of Saxony and of his mother's first cousin Caroline of Parma, Princess Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803–1829). They had no children.

Lastly, on 27 May 1829, Ferdinand married another niece, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806–1878), daughter of his younger sister Maria Isabella of Spain and of their first cousin Francis I of the Two Sicilies, who was also the brother of Ferdinand's first wife. They had two surviving daughters, the older of whom succeeded Ferdinand upon his death.

## Issue

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Name | Birth | Death | Burial | Notes

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By Maria Isabel of Portugal (1797–1818)
Infanta María Luisa Isabel | 21 August 1817
Madrid | 9 January 1818
Madrid | El Escorial | died in infancy.
Infanta María Luisa Isabel | 26 December 1818
Madrid | El Escorial | Stillborn; Maria Isabel died as a result of her birth.
By Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806–1878)
Infanta María Isabel Luisa | 10 October 1830
Madrid | 10 April 1904
Paris | El Escorial | Princess of Asturias 1830–1833, Queen of Spain 1833–1868. Married Francis, Duke of Cádiz, had issue.
Infanta María Luisa Fernanda | 30 January 1832
Madrid | 2 February 1897
Seville | El Escorial | Married Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, had issue.

## Honours

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* Spain:
* Knight of the Golden Fleece, 14 October 1784[22]
* Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, 1784[23]
* Founder and Grand Master of the Military Order of St. Ferdinand, 31 August 1811
* Founder and Grand Master of the Military Order of St. Hermengild, 28 November 1814
* Founder and Grand Master of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, 24 March 1815[24]
* Kingdom of Portugal: Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 1796[25][26]
* France:
* French Empire: Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour, 1806/07[27]
* Kingdom of France: Knight of the Holy Spirit, 1814[28]
* Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Black Eagle, 3 June 1814[29]
* United Kingdom: Knight of the Garter, 10 August 1814[30]
* Russian Empire:[31]
* Knight of St. Andrew, 23 May 1815
* Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky, 23 May 1815
* Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 29 August 1818[32]
* Austrian Empire: Grand Cross of St. Stephen, 1825[33]
* Two Sicilies:[34]
* Knight of St. Januarius
* Grand Cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit

## Ancestry

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Ancestors of Ferdinand VII[35]

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| 4\. Charles III of Spain|

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| 9\. Elisabeth Farnese

| 2\. Charles IV of Spain|

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| 10\. Augustus III of Poland

| 5\. Maria Amalia of Saxony|

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| 11\. Maria Josepha of Austria

| 1\. Ferdinand VII of Spain|
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| 12\. Philip V of Spain (= 8)

| 6\. Philip, Duke of Parma|

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| 13\. Elisabeth Farnese (= 9)

| 3\. Maria Luisa of Parma|

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| 14\. Louis XV of France

| 7\. Louise Élisabeth of France|

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| 15\. Marie Leszczyńska

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### Works cited

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* Carr, Raymond (1982). Spain, 1808–1975 (Second ed.). Clarendon Press.
* Clarke, Henry Butler (1906). Modern Spain, 1815–1898. pp. 1–92.
* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferdinand VII. of Spain". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 267–268.
* Payne, Stanley G. (1973). History of Spain and Portugal (PDF). Vol. 2\. pp. 415–436.

## Further reading

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* Fehrenbach, Charles Wentz (1970). "Moderados and Exaltados: The Liberal Opposition to Ferdinand VII, 1814–1823". Hispanic American Historical Review. 50 (1): 52–69. doi:10.1215/00182168-50.1.52.
* Woodward, Margaret L. (1968). "The Spanish Army and the Loss of America, 1810–1824". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 48 (4): 586–607. doi:10.2307/2510900. JSTOR 2510900.

## External links

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Ferdinand VII

House of Bourbon

Cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty

Born: 14 October 1784 Died: 29 September 1833

Regnal titles
Preceded by

Charles IV

|  King of Spain
1808  | Succeeded by

Joseph

Preceded by

Joseph

|  King of Spain
1813–1833  | Succeeded by

Isabella II

Spanish nobility
Preceded by

Charles (IV)

|  Prince of Asturias
1788–1808  | Vacant

Title next held by

Isabella (II)

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* Philip V
* Louis I
* Philip V
* Ferdinand VI
* Charles III
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* Joseph
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* Isabella II
* Amadeo
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* Alfonso XIII
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The generations indicate descent from Carlos I, under whom the crowns of Castile and Aragon were united, forming the Kingdom of Spain. Previously, the title Infante had been largely used in the different realms.

1st generation|

* Felipe II

2nd generation|

* Carlos, Prince of Asturias
* Fernando, Prince of Asturias
* Diego, Prince of Asturias
* Felipe III

3rd generation|

* Felipe IV
* Infante Carlos
* Infante Fernando
* Infante Alonso

4th generation|

* Baltasar Carlos, Prince of Asturias
* Felipe Próspero, Prince of Asturias
* Carlos II

5th generation|

* None

6th generation|

* None

7th generation|

* Luis I
* Infante Felipe Pedro
* Fernando VI
* Carlos III
* Felipe I, Duke of Parma
* Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón

8th generation|

* Infante Felipe, Duke of Calabria
* Carlos IV
* Fernando I of the Two Sicilies
* Infante Gabriel
* Infante Antonio Pascual
* Infante Francisco Javier
* Fernando I, Duke of Parma1

9th generation|

* Fernando VII
* Infante Carlos, Count of Molina
* Infante Francisco de Paula
* Infante Pedro Carlos, Infante of Portugal1
* Luis I of Etruria2

10th generation|

* Infante Antonio, Duke of Montpensier2
* Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin1
* Infante Juan, Count of Montizón1
* Infante Fernando1
* Francisco de Asís, King Consort of Spain1
* Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville1
* Infante Sebastián, Infante of Portugal1
* Carlos II, Duke of Parma1

11th generation|

* Alfonso XII
* Infante Gaetan, Count of Girgenti2
* Infante Luis Fernando2
* Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera1
* Infante Carlos, Duke of Madrid
* Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime1
* Carlos III, Duke of Parma1

12th generation|

* Infante Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies2
* Infante Ferdinand of Bavaria2
* Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera1
* Infante Luis Fernando of Orléans1
* Infante Jaime, Duke of Madrid1
* Roberto I, Duke of Parma1

13th generation|

* Alfonso, Prince of Asturias
* Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia
* Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona
* Infante Gonzalo
* Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria1
* Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera

14th generation|

* Juan Carlos I
* Infante Alfonso
* Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria1

15th generation|

* Felipe VI

16th generation|

* None

* 1 title granted by Royal Decree
* 2 consort to an Infanta naturalized as a Spanish Infante

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Napoleonic Wars

* Third Coalition
* Fourth Coalition
* Peninsular War
* Fifth Coalition
* French Invasion of Russia
* Sixth Coalition
* Seventh Coalition

Belli-
gerents|

| France,
client states
and allies|

* France
* Polish Legions
* Italy
* Holland
* Etruria
* Swiss Confederation
* Naples
* Confederation of the Rhine
* Bavaria
* Saxony
* Westphalia
* Württemberg
* Denmark–Norway
* Ottoman Empire
* Persia
* Spain

|

Coalition
forces|

* United Kingdom
* Austria
* Russia
* Prussia
* Spain
* Portugal
* Sicily
* Papal States
* Ottoman Empire
* Persia
* Sardinia
* Sweden
* Netherlands
* Brunswick
* Hanover
* Nassau
* French Royalists

Major
battles|

| Prelude|

* French Revolution
* First Coalition
* Second Coalition
* 18 Brumaire
* Planned invasion of the United Kingdom
* Duc d'Enghien Execution
* Coronation of Napoleon

|

1805|

* Diamond Rock
* Cape Finisterre
* Wertingen
* Günzburg
* Haslach-Jungingen
* Elchingen
* Ulm
* Verona
* Trafalgar
* Caldiero
* Cape Ortegal
* Amstetten
* Dürenstein
* Schöngrabern
* Austerlitz

1806|

* Gaeta
* Campo Tenese
* Maida
* Schleiz
* Saalfeld
* Jena–Auerstedt
* Erfurt
* Halle
* Magdeburg
* Prenzlau
* Pasewalk
* Stettin
* Waren-Nossentin
* Lübeck
* Greater Poland uprising
* Hamelin
* Czarnowo
* Golymin
* Pułtusk

1807|

* Mohrungen
* Eylau
* Ostrołęka
* Kolberg
* Danzig
* Stralsund I
* Mileto
* Guttstadt-Deppen
* Heilsberg
* Friedland
* Stralsund II
* Copenhagen
* Invasion of Portugal

1808|

* Dos de Mayo
* Bruch
* Rosily Squadron
* Cabezón
* 1st Zaragoza
* Valencia
* Medina de Rioseco
* Bailén
* Roliça
* Vimeiro
* Zornoza
* Valmaseda
* Burgos
* Espinosa
* Tudela
* Somosierra
* 2nd Zaragoza
* Sahagún
* Benavente

1809|

* Castellón
* Uclés
* Corunna
* Valls
* Tyrolean Rebellion
* Villafranca
* Yevenes/Yébenes
* Ciudad Real
* 1st Porto
* Medellín
* Bergisel
* Sacile
* Teugen-Hausen
* Raszyn
* Abensberg
* Landshut
* Eckmühl
* Ratisbon
* Neumarkt-Sankt Veit
* Dalmatian Campaign
* Ebelsberg
* Girona
* Piave River
* Grijó
* 2nd Porto
* Wörgl
* Tarvis
* Aspern-Essling
* Alcañiz
* Sankt Michael
* Stralsund
* Raab
* María
* Graz
* Wagram
* Korneuburg
* Stockerau
* Gefrees
* Hollabrunn
* Schöngrabern
* Armistice of Znaim
* Talavera
* Walcheren Campaign
* Ölper
* Almonacid
* Tamames
* Ocaña
* Alba de Tormes

1810|

* Cádiz
* Astorga
* Ciudad Rodrigo
* Barquilla
* Côa
* Almeida
* Bussaco

1811|

* Gebora
* Barrosa
* Pombal
* Redinha
* Casal Novo
* Campo Maior
* Sabugal
* Almeida
* Fuentes de Oñoro
* Tarragona
* Albuera
* Usagre
* Saguntum
* Arroyo dos Molinos
* Valencia

1812|

* Ciudad Rodrigo
* Badajoz
* Villagarcia
* Almaraz
* Maguilla
* Mir
* Ekau
* Salamanca
* García Hernández
* Saltanovka
* Ostrovno
* Vitebsk
* Kobryn
* Klyastitsy
* Majadahonda
* Gorodechno
* Smolensk
* 1st Polotsk
* Valutino
* Mesoten
* Borodino
* Moscow
* Burgos
* Tarutino
* 2nd Polotsk
* Venta del Pozo
* Maloyaroslavets
* Chashniki
* Vyazma
* Smoliani
* Krasnoi
* Berezina

1813|

* Castalla
* Lützen
* Bautzen
* Tarragona
* Luckau
* Vitoria
* San Sebastián
* Pyrenees
* Sorauren
* Großbeeren
* Katzbach
* Dresden
* 1st Kulm
* San Marcial
* Dennewitz
* 2nd Kulm
* Göhrde
* Roßlau
* Wartenburg
* Bidassoa
* Leipzig
* Hanau
* Nivelle
* Bornhöved
* Sehested

1814|

* Brienne
* La Rothière
* Mincio River
* Champaubert
* Montmirail
* Château-Thierry
* Vauchamps
* Garris
* Mormant
* Montereau
* Orthez
* Bar-sur-Aube
* Laon
* Reims
* Craonne
* Arcis-sur-Aube
* Fère-Champenoise
* Saint-Dizier
* Montmartre
* Paris
* Toulouse
* Bayonne

1815|

* Panaro
* Occhiobello
* Carpi
* Casaglia
* Ronco
* Cesenatico
* Pesaro
* Scapezzano
* Tolentino
* Ancona
* Castel di Sangro
* San Germano
* Gaeta
* Quatre Bras
* Ligny
* Waterloo
* Wavre
* Rocheserviere
* La Suffel
* Rocquencourt
* Issy

Info|

| French and ally
military and
political leaders|

* Napoleon
* Louis-Alexandre Berthier
* Joachim Murat
* Louis-Nicolas Davout
* Jean Lannes
* Auguste de Marmont
* André Masséna
* Michel Ney
* Jean-de-Dieu Soult
* Marshal Victor
* Jean-Baptiste Bessières
* Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
* Joseph I
* Louis Bonaparte
* Jérôme Bonaparte
* Prince Poniatowski
* Prince Eugène
* Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
* Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
* Frederick I of Württemberg
* Frederick VI of Denmark

|

Coalition
military and
political leaders|

* Duke of Wellington
* Rowland Hill
* John Moore
* Horatio Nelson
* Thomas Cochrane
* Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
* Manuel Lapeña
* Archduke Charles
* Prince von Schwarzenberg
* Archduke John of Austria
* Alexander I of Russia
* Mikhail Kutuzov
* Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
* Count Bennigsen
* Pyotr Bagration
* Peter Wittgenstein
* Frederick William III of Prussia
* Gebhard von Blücher
* Duke of Brunswick
* Prince of Hohenlohe
* Ferdinand VII of Spain
* Miguel de Álava
* Maria I of Portugal
* Prince Regent John of Portugal
* Count of Feira
* William, Prince of Orange
* Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
* Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
* Prince Charles John of Sweden
* Louis XVIII

Related
conflicts|

* Anglo-Russian War
* Anglo-Spanish War
* Anglo-Swedish War
* Anglo-Turkish War
* Anglo-Danish War
* Gunboat War
* Dano-Swedish War
* Russo-Swedish War (Finnish War)
* Franco-Swedish War (Pomeranian War)
* Russo-Persian War
* Russo-Turkish War
* Spanish American wars of independence
* Swedish–Norwegian War
* War of 1812

Treaties|

* Campo Formio
* Lunéville
* Amiens
* Artlenburg
* Pressburg
* Finckenstein
* Tilsit
* Cintra
* Schönbrunn
* Paris (1810)
* Paris (February 1812)
* Paris (March 1812)
* Paris (1814)
* Tauroggen
* Ried
* Chaumont
* Kiel
* Mantua
* Casalanza
* Fontainebleau (1814)
* Paris (1815)

Miscellaneous|

* Bibliography
* Bourbon Restoration
* Casualties
* Congress of Erfurt
* Continental System
* Conference of Dresden
* England expects that every man will do his duty
* Films
* Grande Armée
* Uniforms
* Longwood House
* Types of military

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Viceroys of New Spain (1535–1821)

Charles V (1535–1564)|

* Antonio de Mendoza
* Luís de Velasco

Philip II (1566–1603)|

* Gastón de Peralta
* Martín Enríquez de Almanza
* Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza
* Pedro Moya de Contreras
* Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga
* Luis de Velasco
* Gaspar de Zúñiga

Philip III (1603–1621)|

* Juan de Mendoza y Luna
* Luis de Velasco
* García Guerra
* Diego Fernández de Córdoba

Philip IV (1621–1665)|

* Diego Carrillo de Mendoza
* Rodrigo Pacheco
* Lope Díez de Armendáriz
* Diego López Pacheco
* Juan de Palafox y Mendoza
* García Sarmiento de Sotomayor
* Marcos de Torres y Rueda
* Luis Enríquez de Guzmán
* Francisco Fernández de la Cueva
* Juan de Leyva de la Cerda
* Diego Osorio de Escobar y Llamas
* Antonio Sebastián de Toledo

Charles II (1665–1701)|

* Pedro Nuño Colón
* Payo Enríquez de Rivera
* Tomás de la Cerda
* Melchor Portocarrero
* Gaspar de la Cerda
* Juan Ortega y Montañés
* José Sarmiento y Valladares

Philip V (1701–1746)|

* Juan Ortega y Montañés
* Francisco Fernández de la Cueva
* Fernando de Alencastre
* Baltasar de Zúñiga
* Juan de Acuña
* Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta
* Pedro de Castro
* Pedro Cebrián y Agustín

Ferdinand VI (1746–1760)|

* Juan Francisco de Güemes
* Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón

Charles III (1760–1789)|

* Francisco Cajigal de la Vega
* Joaquín de Montserrat
* Carlos Francisco de Croix
* Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa
* Martín de Mayorga Ferrer
* Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo
* Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid
* Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta
* Manuel Antonio Flores Maldonado

Charles IV (1789–1809)|

* Juan Vicente de Güemes
* Miguel de la Grúa Talamanca
* Miguel José de Azanza
* Félix Berenguer de Marquina
* José de Iturrigaray
* Pedro de Garibay

Ferdinand VII (1809–1821)|

* Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont
* Francisco Javier Venegas
* Félix María Calleja del Rey
* Juan José Ruiz de Apodaca y Eliza
* Francisco Novella Azabal Pérez y Sicardo
* Juan O'Donojú y O'Ryan

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Artists|

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