Charles IV of Spain

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Charles IV of Spain was the king of Spain of 1788 to 1808. Wire of Charles III of Spain, it was born the November 11th 1748 with Portici (Italy) and died in Rome the January 20th 1819.

Marry with the palate of Granja with San Ildefonso on September 4th, 1765 Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1751-1819) (girl of Philippe Ier of Parma and Elisabeth de France (1727-1759) (girl of Louis XV of France) of which they had 14 children.

  • Charles Clément of Spain (1771 - 1774)

  • Philippe François of Spain (1783 - 1784)

  • Marie Isabelle of Spain (posterity)

Will lack, it entrusted the direction of Spain to Manuel Godoy, lover of his wife Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma.

It succeeded his father in 1788. Weak and unable prince, it was unceasingly dominated by the Marie-Louise queen like by the Favori of this princess, Manuel Godoy, prince of Peace, and was at the thank you of all the events. He tried to save his cousin Louis XVI and declared the war with the French Republic. In 1793 (27-3-1793), after the execution of Louis XVI in answer to the declaration of war which French Convention had addressed to him on March 7th? , it was constrained to make peace and to even conclude with France a treaty from offensive and defensive alliance by the treaty from Basle and the transfer from the Island from Santo Domingo in 1795). In 1796, it signed the Traité of San Ildefonso, alliance military with France against the Great Britain.

Consequently of this treaty, it had to make the war with the Portugal and the Great Britain (the the United Kingdom after 1801); this last power made him test a terrible failure with Trafalgar (1805) and removed its more beautiful colonies to him. It became then the toy of Napoleon i. Overpowered yoke which the Emperor imposed to him, he wanted to withdraw himself in America; but the revolt of Aranjuez, caused by his/her son Ferdinand (March 18th 1808), prevented it from carrying out this project, and he saw himself constrained to abdicate in favor of this wire during the invasion of Spain by Napoleon; two months afterwards, Napoleon, that the two princes had called upon like referee, forced it, in the Entrevue of Bayonne, to retract this abdication and to make of it a news in his own favor (May 5th). Napoleon put his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the throne. Charles IV was sent to Compiegne and accepted a life annuity, then it went to reside at Marseilles in 1811) and finally at Rome, where it died reconciled with his son.

Under the Empire, vassal Spain of Napoleon lost his navy in Trafalgar, the Trinity and Florida.

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Partial sources

  • Charles IV. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.

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