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Encyclopedia > Charles VII of Spain

Carlos María de los Dolores Juan Isidor Jose Francisco Quirin Antonio Miguel Gabriel Raphael de Borbón y Austria-Este, Duke of Madrid (March 30, 1848 - July 18, 1909) was the senior member of the House of Bourbon from 1887 until his death. He was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the name Carlos VIII since 1868 (his father's Spanish abdication), and the Legitimist claimant to the throne of France under the name Charles XI since the death of his father in 1887. March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in leap years). ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Carlism was a conservative political movement in Spain, purporting to establish an alternative branch of the Bourbons in the Spanish throne. ... Legitimists are those Royalists in France who believe that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic Law. ...


Carlos was born at Ljubljana in what is now Slovenia, the elder son of Juan, Conde de Montizon and of his wife Archduchess Maria Beatrice of Austria-Este. As an infant the family lived briefly in London where Carlos' younger brother Alfonso was born. After their father, known too liberal for Carlist tastes, left their mother, the boys lived with their mother in Modena. Their mother's brother Duke Francis V of Modena was largely responsible for the education of the boys and was the chief influence in their early lives. Carlos was known for his reactionary and conservative views, much contrary to those of his father's and his son's. (IPA: ) is the capital and largest city in Slovenia. ... Juan, Conde de Montizon (May 15, 1822 - November 21, 1887) was the younger son of Infante Carlos of Spain. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... Alfonso Carlos de Bourbon, Duke of San Jaime (1849 - 1936) was the Legitimist claimant to the throne of France and the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain. ... Modena (Mòdna in Modenese dialect) is a city and a province on the south side of the Po valley, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ... Duke Francis V of Modena (Italian: Francesco V dEste) (1819–1875) was born June 1, 1819, the eldest son of Francis IV of Modena and of Princess Mary Beatrice of Savoy. ...

Preceded by:
Juan III
(count of Montizón)
Carlist claimants to the throne of Spain
1868-1909
Succeeded by:
Jacques I / Jaime III
Preceded by:
Jean III
(count of Montizón)
Legitimist claimants to the throne of France
1887-1909

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Ferdinand VII of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1242 words)
Ferdinand VII (October 14, 1784 - September 29, 1833) was King of Spain from 1813 to 1833.
The eldest son of Charles IV, king of Spain, and of his wife Maria Louisa of Parma, he was born in the vast palace of El Escorial near Madrid.
Ferdinand soon found that while Spain was fighting for independence in his name and while in his name juntas had governed in Spanish America, a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution.
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