Confederación de Caballeros Comuneros

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Confederación de Caballeros Comuneros (German Bund der Comunero-Ritter ; also sons of Padilla ) called itself a political one that existed in Spain from 1821 to 1823 . Masonic secret society .

The Comuneros were formed in 1821 within Spanish Freemasonry . Some of them had previously belonged to the carbonaria , which was also widespread in Spain . The more constitutionally minded Freemasons were soon overtaken by the Comuneros, who encouraged bolder revolutionary measures. Their tendency was to achieve popular rule ; their watchword is freedom and complete equality of men. Francisco Ballesteros and Juan Romero Alpuente were its leading heads. As early as 1821, the Comuneros founded a leading junta in Madrid and a provincial merindad in each province and accordingly set up a central and provincial coffers, into which the voluntary contributions of the members flowed. In 1822 the secret society numbered around 40,000 knights; later its number is said to have risen to 70,000. His relations extended even to France . The common hatred of the second and third ministries after the establishment of the Cortes constitution had once again brought the Comuneros closer to the Freemasons. But when the latter formed the ministry headed by Evaristo Fernández de San Miguel after July 7, 1822 , the separation and a new struggle soon followed. The San Miguel Ministry was dismissed on February 19, and the new one was taken over by Álvaro Flórez Estrada on March 1, 1823 , considered an organ of the Comuneros. With this King Ferdinand VII made his entry into Seville on April 10th and into Cadiz on June 12th, 1823 . After the restoration of absolutism in Spain through the intervention of the French , the Association of Comuneros was abolished, the members of which were severely persecuted on the orders of Ferdinand VII. but this secret society seems to have continued for a while.

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