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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 VII had become king after the victorious end of the Peninsular War, by which Spain defeated Napoleonic France.He returned to Spain on 24 March 1814 and his first act was the abolition of the 1812 liberal constitution; this was followed by the dissolution of the two chambers of the Spanish Parliament on 10 May.
Articles related to Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784–1833, reigned 1808, 1813-1833) and his reign. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The Royalist War was an armed conflict that took place in Spain during the last year and a half of the Liberal Triennium.It began in the spring of 1822—there is no agreement among historians about the exact moment of its beginning—with the extension of the actions and the number of royalist parties that had already been acting since the spring of 1821 with the purpose to reestablish the ...
Ferdinand the Bull, a mild-mannered bull in the children's book The Story of Ferdinand; Ferdinand the Bull, mascot of the Taranaki Rugby Football Union team; Ferdinand, a character from the television series Thomas & Friends; Dr. Ferdinand, a character from the manga Steel Ball Run; Ferdinand, a character from the action-adventure game L.A. Noire
Portrait of Ferdinand VII is an 1815 portrait painting by Francisco Goya depicting Ferdinand VII of Spain. [1] [2] It depicts the King wearing his robes of state.From 1808 to 1813 Ferdinand had been a prisoner of the French Empire, held at the Château de Valençay after being deposed in favour of Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte.
Ferdinand the Catholic swearing the fueros as the Lord of Biscay at Guernica in 1476 Columbus soliciting aid of Ferdinand's wife Isabella. The first years of Ferdinand and Isabella's joint rule saw the Spanish conquest of the Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic al-Andalus entity on the Iberian peninsula, completed in 1492. [4] [7]
Ferdinand enhanced his authority and set an important legal and military precedent by issuing a Revised Land Ordinance, which deprived the Bohemian estates of their right to raise soldiers and reserved that power for the monarch. [7] His father was unable to secure him the election as king of the Romans at the Diet of Regensburg of 1630.