Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain
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Infante Antonio Pascual | |||||
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Prado Museum) | |||||
Born | Acquaviva Palace, Caserta, Naples | 31 December 1755||||
Died | 20 April 1817 El Escorial, Spain | (aged 61)||||
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Spouse |
Infanta María Amalia of Spain (m. 1795; died 1798) | ||||
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House | Bourbon | ||||
Father | Charles III of Spain | ||||
Mother | Maria 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
Born in Acquaviva Palace in
Aged 39, he married on August 25, 1795,
He supported his nephew
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.
Arms
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Coat of Arms of Infante Antonio of Spain
Ancestry
Ancestors of Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain Augustus II of Poland | |||||||||||||
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6. Augustus III of Poland | |||||||||||||
13. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth | |||||||||||||
3. Maria Amalia of Saxony | |||||||||||||
14. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | |||||||||||||
7. Maria Josepha of Austria | |||||||||||||
15. Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ Biografías y Vidas
- ^ 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.