Luis Fernández de Córdova

Luis Fernández de Córdova ( born August 2, 1798 in Cadiz, † April 29, 1840 in Lisbon ) was a Spanish general captain.

Fernández de Córdova was an outspoken opponent of the constitutional party, and declared in 1820 against the proclamation of the Constitution by the troops. He prepared with the consent of King Ferdinand VII the uprising of the Garden on July 7, 1822 before. The uprising failed, and Córdova fled to Paris, but he soon returned to Navarre. He served in the army led by Quesada faith and later led an independent corps in Andalusia.

Fernández de Córdova was one of the preferred favorites of the king and has been widely used diplomatically, so in 1829 as Spanish ambassador in Berlin, where he worked for Don Miguel. Soon after his return from this mission he was forced to emigrate in 1830. The victory of the reaction brought him in 1831 but again as ambassador to Berlin, and the following year in the same position to Lisbon. He fought against the Carlists and joined the party of Isabella.

In 1834 he led a division under Rodil, on 12 December 1834, he successfully beat Zumalacarregui in the Battle of Mendaza and three days later at the bridge of Arquijas, but with very limited success. The General Gómez Moreno, successor of Zumalacarregui, he then struck on 16 July 1835 in the Mendigorria and horrified by Puente la Reina. At the beginning of 1836 he failed in an attack on the heights of Arlaban and Guevara. As of August this year, the Constitution of 1812 came into force, he resigned his command and emigrated to France.

Back in Spain, he was elected deputy and proved here but as so unreliable and unprincipled that soon all parties turned their backs. In the uprising of 1838 Fernández de Córdova Ramón María Narváez followed, could, however, Baldomero Espartero not enforce and fled to Portugal.

Luis Fernandez de Cordova died on April 24, 1840 in Lisbon.