Kingdom of Northern Lusitania
The Kingdom of Northern Lusitania ( Portuguese: Reino da Lusitânia Setentrional ) or shortly Kingdom Lusitania was one of 1807 provided in the Franco- Spanish Treaty of Fontainebleau State which should result in the division of Portugal.
King was originally from a branch of the Spanish Bourbons Karl Ludwig Ferdinand of Bourbon- Parma, are the sure gave up his claim to his kingdom of Etruria to France. The new kingdom should be hereditary in Karl Ludwig offspring and fall in case of extinction of his line to the Spanish Bourbons, but without having to be directly associated with Spain allowed.
The designated based on the ancient Roman province of Lusitania Kingdom should include only the northern Portuguese region of Entre- Douro -e- Minho, between the rivers Douro and Minho, capital should be Porto. The rest of the Portuguese territory should be divided between France and Spain: the Central Portuguese regions between Douro and Tagus including Lisbon should provisionally fall under French rule, the south of the Tagus -lying areas (Alentejo) and the Algarve should form an autonomous principality under Spanish sovereignty. As Prince of the Algarve, the Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy was provided. Under the Treaty, marching occupied by French troops in 1807 Spain Lisbon, the Algarve and the Spanish troops Entre- Douro -e- Minho. With their expulsion by a British expeditionary force and the collapse of the Spanish Bourbons in 1808, the plan was invalid, neither the intended nor the Principality of Algarve Kingdom of Lusitania were reality. A renewed offensive by the French under Marshal Nicolas Soult, who intended himself as Nicholas I, if not yet but to become the King of Portugal, so at least the king of Lusitania, failed in 1809 final.