Oh yes I'm the greatish pretender!


We are, it would appear, short of excitement today.  We don’t even go to see the junction of the much improved N-113 and N-232.  However, we are about to enter a whole new province - Navare!




At this point you may be expecting to hear much of the commercial and sporting delights on offer and you would be wrong.  It is, by the nature of the Spanish History I consumed, that Navarre turns up as the nurturing ground of the Carlists and so to Carlism we turn for today’s lecture.



This is one of those ones where the elite have a squabble because one bit of the family are desperate to take control and so claimed that Salic Law applied.  The Bourbons had taken over in 1700 and were keen on it.   Presumably the fact Isabella was Queen of Castille was not to be taken account of.  Ferdinand VII was getting poorly and he declared whatever sex his unborn child was, they were going to be monarch.  This meant Princess Isabel got the gig and Ferdie’s bro, Carlos, didn’t.




Ferdinand VII died in 1833 and the first Carlos War broke out and lasted more than seven years and the fighting spanned most of the country at one time or another, although the main conflict centered on the Carlist homelands of the Basque Country and Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia.




The Second Carlist War (1846–1849) was a minor Catalan uprising. The rebels / glorious froces of the one true king tried to install Carlos, Count of Montemolín on the throne. In Galicia, a smaller-scale uprising was put down by General Ramón María Narváez.




In a best of five decider Third Carlist War (1872–1876) began in the aftermath of the deposition of one ruling monarch and the abdication of another. Queen Isabella II was overthrown by a conspiracy of liberal generals in 1868, and left Spain in some disgrace. The Cortes (Parliament) replaced her with Amadeo, the Duke of Aosta (and second son of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy). Then, when the Spanish elections of 1872 resulted in government violence against Carlist candidates and a swing away from Carlism, the Carlist pretender, Carlos VII, decided that only force of arms could win him the throne. Thus the Third Carlist War began; it lasted for four years, until 1876.





The Carlist Militias provided troops for the Fasc Coup attempt in 1936.  Carlism and Fascism share the general ‘we don’t like the modern world’ vibe.  Apart from having a bloke as king the Carlists were a bit keen on Catholicism in a more puritan type of way and really disapproved of the the indolent bishops of castile.  

Carlists were one of the factions that Franco played to remain in power.  In the nature of all factions they factionised even more.







In the first democratic elections on 15th June 1977, only one Carlist senator was elected, journalist and writer Fidel Carazo from Soria, who ran as an independent candidate. In the parliamentary elections of 1979, rightist Carlists integrated in the far-right coalition Unión Nacional, which won a seat in the Cortes for Madrid; but the elected candidate was not himself a Carlist. The Carlists have since remained extra-parliamentary, obtaining only town council seats.

In 2002, Carlos Hugo donated the House's archives to the Archivo Histórico Nacional, which was protested by his brother Don Sixto Enrique and by other Carlist factions Into the 21st century, there are three political organizations which claim the Carlist identity:

  • Traditionalist Communion (led by José Miguel Gambra Gutiérrez)

  • Traditionalist Carlist Communion (led by Telmo Aldaz de la Quadra-Salcedo)

  • Partido Carlista (led by Jesús María Aragón Samanes)


The current - weel, one of many - claimants to the Spanish throne of Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma and Piacenza. He was born in 1970 in Nijmegen - his mum was Princess Irene of the Netherlands.  Prince Carlos studied political science at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and demography and philosophy at Cambridge..  In 1995, he obtained a Postgraduate Degree (MPhil) in Demography at Cambridge.  Apparently, as a jobbing royal, he has helped out with the Dutch Royal family at times.






























































 

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