Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Infante Antonio Pascual
Prado Museum)
Born(1755-12-31)31 December 1755
Acquaviva Palace, Caserta, Naples
Died20 April 1817(1817-04-20) (aged 61)
El Escorial, Spain
Burial
Spouse
Infanta María Amalia of Spain
(m. 1795; died 1798)
Names
Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno Aniello Raimundo Silvestre
HouseBourbon
FatherCharles III of Spain
MotherMaria Amalia of Saxony

Infante Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno Aniello Raimundo Silvestre of Spain (31 December 1755 – 20 April 1817) was a son of King Charles III of Spain and younger brother of King Charles IV of Spain and King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.[1]

Biography

Portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs, 1767

Born in Acquaviva Palace in

Maria Josefa
departed for Spain where his father ruled as Charles III.

Aged 39, he married on August 25, 1795,

Maria Luisa
married Louis, Duke of Parma. She died 3 years later in childbirth after giving birth to a dead son.

He supported his nephew

Prince Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, and profoundly disliked Manuel Godoy
.

He headed the Junta Suprema de Gobierno in 1808, in the absence of his brother and nephew, when they tried to humor Napoleon in Bayonne.

During the Peninsular War he lived with the rest of the Royal Family under house arrest at the Château de Valençay. After the war he served in several high functions. He was a fervent supporter of absolutism, organizing support for the restoration of the absolute monarchy.

Tomb of Antonio in El Escorial (right), next to Louis I of Etruria.

Arms

  • Heraldry of Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain
  • Coat of Arms of Infante Antonio of Spain
    Coat of Arms of Infante Antonio of Spain

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Biografías y Vidas
  2. ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 9.