1868 Queen Spain Isabella II Signed Royal Document Autograph Manuscript Royalty

Description: LOT-Y4. For your consideration is an original rare and important hand-signed Royal manuscript document by HRH Queen Isabella II Of Spain. Signed Military Appointment Document Letter Commission Manuscript Order Decree Writ. Rare document in fine original condition for age and period, dated 1868. Document measures approximately 12.25" x 17.5". Document signed "Yo la Reyna", "I the Queen" directed to Father Cardinal Jose Berardi, during the year of her deposition. Isabella II (Spanish: Isabel; 10 October 1830 9 April 1904), also known as La de los Tristes Destinos (She of the Sad Destinies), was Queen of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant, but her succession was disputed by the Carlists, whose refusal to recognize a female sovereign led to the Carlist Wars. After a troubled reign, she was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1868, and formally abdicated in 1870. Her son, Alfonso XII, became king in 1874. Isabella was born in Royal Palace of Madrid in 1830, the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and of his fourth wife and niece, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. Queen Maria Christina became regent on 29 September 1833, when her three-year-old daughter Isabella was proclaimed sovereign on the death of the king. Isabella succeeded to the throne because Ferdinand VII had induced the Cortes Generales to help him set aside the Salic law, introduced by the Bourbons in the early 18th century, and to reestablish the older succession law of Spain. The first pretender to the throne, Ferdinand's brother Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, fought seven years during the minority of Isabella to dispute her title. Carlos' and his descendants' supporters were known as Carlists, and the fight over the succession was the subject of a number of Carlist Wars in the 19th century. Isabella's reign was maintained only through the support of the army. The Cortes and the Moderate Liberals and Progressives reestablished constitutional and parliamentary government, dissolved the religious orders and confiscated their property (including that of the Jesuits), and tried to restore order to Spain's finances. After the Carlist war, the regent, Maria Christina, resigned to make way for Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara, the most successful and most popular Isabelline general. Espartero, a Progressive, remained regent for only two years. Her minority saw tensions with the United States over the Amistad affair. Baldomero Espartero was turned out in 1843 by a military and political pronunciamiento led by Generals Leopoldo O'Donnell and Ramn Mara Narvez. They formed a cabinet, presided over by Joaqun Mara Lpez y Lpez. This government induced the Cortes to declare Isabella of age at 13. Isabella was declared of age and swore the 1837 Constitution on 10 November 1843, age thirteen. Despite the alleged parliamentary supremacy, in practice, the "double trust" led to Isabella having a role in the making and toppling of governments, undermining the progressives. The uneasy alliance between moderates and progressives that had toppled Espartero in July 1843 was already cracking up by the time of the coming of age of the queen. Following a brief government led by progressive Salustiano de Olzaga, the moderates voted their candidate Pedro Jos Pidal to the presidency of the Cortes. After the subsequent decision to dissolve the hostile Cortes by Olzaga on 28 November, rumors about an alleged forcing of the queen to sign the royal decree spread, and Olzaga was prosecuted, liquidated as political figure and forced to exile, with the Progressive Party already being beheaded, in what it was the starting point of their growing disaffection from the Isabelline monarchy.

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