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Infante Francisco de Paula by Francisco de Goya. Born on 10 March 1794 at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, Infante Francisco de Paula was the fourteenth child of King Carlos IV of Spain (1748–1819) and his wife Maria Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), a granddaughter of King Louis XV of France. [1]
Infante Francisco de Paula, 1813–1818, brother Infante Carlos Luis, 1818–1830, son Isabel, Princess of Asturias: Daughter 10 October 1830 Born 29 September 1833 Father died, became queen Infante Carlos María Isidro, 1830–1832, uncle Infanta Luisa Fernanda, 1832–1833, sister Isabel II: Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier: Sister
On 2 May 1808, the younger son of Charles IV, the Infante Francisco de Paula, left Spain for France, leading to a widespread rebellion in the streets of Madrid. The Council of Castile, the main organ of central government in Spain under Charles IV, was now in Napoleon's control. However, due to the popular anger at French rule, it quickly lost ...
Charles IV of Spain and His Family, by Goya (1800). In the center, Charles IV and Queen Maria Luisa of Parma stand next to the infante Francisco de Paula (whose departure from the Palace will provoke the uprising of May 2, 1808, to the cry of "They are taking him away!").
Francisco de Paula Vieira da Silva de Tovar, 1st Viscount of Molelos (1774–1848), Portuguese military officer and politician Saint Francis of Paola , also known as Francisco de Paula Francisco de Paula (actor) (1913–1985), was an Argentine actor
Francisco de Paula was born in Toulouse, France, the third child of Infante Enrique of Spain (son of Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain and Princess Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies) and his morganatic wife, Elena María de Castellví y Shelly (1821–1863), daughter of Antonio de Castellví y Fernández de Córdoba, Count of Castellá, and Margarita Shelly y McCarthy.
Juan Agustin Santander then asked his brother-in-law, the priest Nicolás Mauricio de Omaña y Rodriguez, to try to get the young Francisco de Paula a scholarship at the Colegio de San Bartolomé. Santander now 13, was sent by his father Juan Agustin to Santa Fe in 1805 and enrolled in the Colegio Mayor y Seminario de San Bartolomé.
The Falklands Crisis of 1770 was a diplomatic standoff between Great Britain and Spain over possession of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. These events were nearly the cause of a war between Britain and Spain—backed by France—and all three countries were poised to dispatch armed fleets to defend the rival claims to sovereignty of the barren but strategically important islands.