Infante Carlos, Count of Molina

Carlos María Isidro Benito de Borbón y Borbón -Parma, Count of Molina ( born March 29, 1788 in Aranjuez, † March 10, 1855 in Trieste ), the second son of King Charles IV of Spain and founder was the Carlist line in the Bourbon succession in Spain and France.

Life

Carlos had in 1808 along with his older brother, Ferdinand VII, provide by order of Napoleon to the throne and informed waiver until 1814 the imprisonment of Ferdinand Castle Valençay. In 1814 he returned, together with Ferdinand VII returned to Madrid. Since this was childless, opened up Carlos the next view to succession to the throne, and it gathered a party around him, which, hoped for the restoration of Catholicism to its former glory and of absolute monarchy of the prince, who was under the rule of the clergy. Not without reason, therefore, was the prince after the restoration of the constitution of 1820 as the head of all directed to that end, secret conspiracies and intrigues. The birth of the Infanta Isabella (1830-1904) destroyed Carlos ' views on the throne, the king previously statuierte the Salic Law, the only male succession, had lifted. When Carlos protested against this provision, the king drew him first to Portugal, then by the Papal States.

But Carlos refused to obey and was after the death of Ferdinand VII on 29 September 1833 by his party, which led to the name Carlists from now, as the rightful ruler ( Carlos V ) recognized. The Queen Regent María Cristina of Sicily therefore declared it on October 16, for a rebel, and Carlos, who rejected all proposed settlements, came to pass in June 1834 to England, but returned the very next month sneak back into the country and sparked a bloody civil War, the First Carlist War, which was performed with alternating fortune, until Carlos finally in 1839 on French soil sought a refuge where he instructed as staging received the Bourges Castle and has since lived in half captivity. It was only on May 18, 1845, he abdicated in favor of his eldest son Carlos Luis. Under the name of Count of Molina he lived since 1847 in Trieste, where he died on 10 March 1855.

Carlos was buried in a side chapel of the Cathedral of San Giusto in Trieste.

Marriage and issue

Carlos de Borbón 1816 married his niece Maria Francisca of Portugal. They had three children:

• Carlos (v. ) Luis María Fernando ( 1818-1861 ), Count of Montemolín, ∞ 1850 Princess Maria Caroline of Bourbon- Sicily ( 1820-1861 )
• Juan (III ) Carlos Maria Isidro ( 1822-1887 ), Count of Montizón, ∞ 1847 Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria -Este ( 1824-1906 )
• Ferdinand de Borbón (1824-1861), unmarried