Differences between Carlists and Elizabethans

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The death of Fernando VII left Spain in a terrible problem, since the monarch had not had male offspring, but on the contrary he had had a daughter, Isabel. This was quite a serious problem for the government of the country, since the Salic law still existed in Spain. Next, in this lesson from a TEACHER we will stop to explain the differences between the Carlists and Elizabethans, because as a result of the aforementioned, there was a confrontation between two factions to seize power.

Index

1. The origin of the Carlist wars
2. The differences between Carlists and Elizabethans
3. The end of the Carlist wars

Fernando VII, after the passing of the years, was distancing himself more and more from his brother, the infant Carlos María Isidro, who longed for obtain the throne of Spain, which he saw quite close, since his brother after three marriages had not managed to offspring.

In March 1830, when the queen was still pregnant, Ferdinand VII published the

In this way, after the death of Fernando VII on September 29, 1833, Carlos María Isidro through the Abrantes manifesto made it clear that she did not recognize her niece as princess of Asturias and therefore she demanded to maintain her dynastic rights. Even so, the little girl was named queen while her mother, María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, was the regent of the kingdom.

In this way the first Carlist war would begin, being the most important of those that occurred in the country (since throughout the nineteenth century we will find other Carlist wars, which were more like skirmishes).

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Continuing with our summary of the differences between Carlists and ElizabethansWe will stop at the problems that both sides posed, since it was not only the dynastic question that was to be decided with the war, but the future of the Spanish government.

For this we must go back in time because Fernando VII after the War of Independence, abolished the Constitution of 1812, thereby preventing the arrival of liberal ideas to power.

Elizabethan

The death of this monarch implied the possibility of the arrival of these ideas to power, and for this it was shielded in Isabel, who began to be surrounded by all the new ideas, thus forming the group Elizabethan. In this way we will have to see a conglomerate of groups that were adhering as they were:

• Military: Most of the Spanish army remained faithful to the Crown and to the will of Fernando VII, who left his daughter as heir Isabel II. For this reason, they would quickly approach the regent María Cristina, who had also started an idyll with one of the military, which she would make up to the great of Spain. For this reason, it will be the time of the great military governments, as would be that of the general himself Esparteros, Espoz and Mina…, That is to say, a moment by which the Crown ceded control of the government to the military for being in a period of political crisis.
• Moderated: This group had liberal thoughts, although they wanted to introduce changes very little by little so that they would be established in society, without changing it at once. In this group we would find mainly the bourgeoisie, who feared that sudden changes would destroy their wealth.
• Liberals: It was a more radical group, always related to the left, which sought radical changes in the form of government and quickly put an end to it. Old Regime. There were many discrepancies they had with the moderates, even so, the liberals supported Queen Elizabeth, because they saw the possibility of changing the course of the country.

In addition to these groups, the Crown sought support abroad as was Portugal, France and the United Kingdom, which gave financial aid and military support to end the uprising started by Carlos María Isidro.

Carlists

On the other hand, we will have to speak with the forces that the infant Carlos María Isidro had at the time of giving the military uprising against his niece, Queen Elizabeth II.

From the first moment the kingdom of Navarre and the Basque Country supported the infant in his struggle for power, because they had many regional privileges that they were in danger of extinction if the liberal ideas arrived, because for a long time it had been brewing by the government remove the privileges to the different areas of the Crown to make a country where all regions had the same burdens prosecutors.

This group was also quickly joined by the Crown of Aragon and Catalonia, which wanted to get the privileges eliminated again due to the Decrees of Nueva Planta introduced after war of Spanish Succession in the year 1715.

In addition to the most important cities of the aforementioned regions, we must add the rural areas, since they gave tremendous support to the infant, which which was due in part to the clergy who, from the pulpits of the churches, encouraged the peasants to fight so that the tradition would not end national. Regarding the high ecclesiastical hierarchy, we will see everything, some would support the Carlists and others would support the Elizabethans.

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After the disposition of the sides, a civil war for the control of the throne, being the scene of the war the north of the country as we have been able to observe. This contest lasted between the year 1833- 1839 and it could be divided into several periods where there were some small stages of inactivity.

Although in some moments the Carlists managed to overcome the Christians or Elizabethans, we have to say that in most cases it was the Elizabethans who had the upper hand.

Peace was signed in the Vergara Convention in the year 1839 by which the exile to the infant Carlos María IsidroAlthough the war lasted a few more months (almost a year) because General Cabrera did not want to admit said signature and continued to maintain the Maestrazgo.

But we can say that, after the signing of the peace, all regions of the kingdom admitted the sovereign Elizabeth II, thus beginning the liberal period in Spain.

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