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Carlos Martãƒâ­nez De Irujo, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo Family Tree

Spanish diplomat and political leader

The Nigh Excellent

The Marquess of Casa Irujo

Carlos Martínez de Irujo Tacón.jpg

Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1804

Prime Minister of Spain
In office
two December 1823 – 18 Jan 1824
Monarch Ferdinand VII
Preceded by Víctor Damián Sáez
Succeeded by Narciso Fernández de Heredia
Personal details
Born

Carlos Martínez de Irujo y Tacón


4 Dec 1763
Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
Died 17 January 1824 (aged 58)
Madrid, Espana
Spouse(s) Sarah McKean

Carlos Martínez de Irujo y Tacón, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo (four December 1763, in Cartagena – 17 January 1824, in Madrid), was a Spanish prime number minister and diplomat, Knight of the Gild of Charles III and public official.

Biography [edit]

His male parent was Manuel Martinez de Irujo y de Erice and his mother Narcisa Tacón y Gamiz (born Beriain, Navarre, 1740). He had two siblings, Narcisa Martínez de Irujo y Tacón and María Rafaela Martínez de Irujo y Tacón.

Casa Irujo (frequently spelled Yrujo) was the Spanish government minister to the United states from 1796 to 1807. Casa Irujo inverse positions and became minister at Rio de Janeiro and then Paris.[1]

He was Secretary of state (Prime Minister) of Kingdom of spain (ministro de estado) three times, offset in 1812, and so in an acting capacity from 1818 to 1819, and finally for a few weeks from December 1823 until his death in January 1824.

In 1794 while an attaché at the Castilian diplomatic mission in London he had an illegitimate girl named Lavinia de Irujo. Lavinia herself later gave nascence to ii daughters Fredericka and Frances out of wedlock, the male parent beingness Major Charles Jones (father of Ernest Jones, a poet, dramatist and novelist.) There are several drawings of Lavinia by the artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825).

In 1798 Don Carlos married Sarah McKean, the daughter of Pennsylvania governor Thomas McKean. The couple have been described as " intriguers of the highest order."[2] Their son Carlos Martínez de Irujo y McKean (1802-1855), Duque of Sotomayor, became prime government minister of Espana for a short period in 1847.

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"He was an obstinate, impetuous and rather vain little person with cerise hair; enormously wealthy, endlessly touchy, extremely intelligent and vastly attractive … he liked America, he understood it and enjoyed information technology; he was tremendously pop at Philadelphia, and at Washington when he condescended to appear in that location; he was on intimate terms at the President'south House. If he lost his temper from time to fourth dimension, and thought nothing of haranguing the land through the newspapers, he served his Rex with energetic loyalty; he went well-nigh his business with dignity and shrewdness; he never forgot the respect due to his official person, however much he might indulge his democratic tendencies in individual intercourse; he was the only Government minister of the outset rank in America, and consequently the leading figure in the diplomatic corps; he contributed to American society the vivid qualities of his elegant and felicitous personality; he was a very nifty gentleman."

— from Aaron Burr, Samuel H. Wandell, Meade Minnigerode, 1925.

Yrujo was doubly and trebly attached to the Administration. Proud as a typical Spaniard should be, and mingling and infusion of vanity with his pride; irascible, headstrong, indiscreet as was possible for a diplomatist, and afraid of no prince or president; young, able, quick, and aggressive; devoted to his King and country; a flighty and dangerous friend, but a most troublesome enemy; e'er in difficulties, but in spite of fantastic outbursts always respectable,—Yrujo needed only the contrast of characters such as those of Pickering or Madison to brand him the nearly entertaining figure in Washington politics. He loved the rough-and-tumble of democratic habits, and remembered his diplomatic dignity only when he could use it every bit a weapon against a secretarial assistant of state. If he idea the Government to demand help or alert, he wrote communications to the newspapers in a style which long feel had made familiar to the public and irritating to the Regime whose acts he criticized.

- from The Kickoff Administration of Thomas Jefferson, Part I, Affiliate 17

References [edit]

  1. ^ Fleming, Thomas The Duel-Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the hereafter of America Perseus Books Group 1999
  2. ^ Fleming The Duel

External links [edit]

  • Caballeros de Carlos Three

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Mart%C3%ADnez_de_Irujo,_1st_Marquess_of_Casa_Irujo

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