Manuel Rancés y Villanueva

Manuel Rancés y Villanueva (* 1824 in Cádiz , † 1897 in Ciudad Real ) was a Spanish diplomat .

Life

Manuel Rances y Villanueva (1871) caricature in the Vanity Fair

In 1848, Henry Bulwer , the British envoy in Madrid, was expelled by Ramón María Narváez on charges of having initiated an uprising against the government with liberal ideas . On June 1, 1852, the newspaper El Diario Español was founded in Madrid , which was directed by Rancés.

Rancés was appointed Prime Minister in Rio de Janeiro on February 12, 1856 and submitted his letter of accreditation to the government of Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca in Brazil on February 23, 1857 . from July 2, 1859, he was authorized minister in Bern and Frankfurt. Rancés was proclaimed in the Duchy of Nassau , Hesse, Darmstadt and Baden on April 29, 1860. In 1862 he met Wilhelm I as plenipotentiary ambassador in Berlin, and a year later he met Johann in the Kingdom of Saxony in Dresden .

In 1865 he was appointed ambassador to the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Saxony-Weimar . On January 17, 1867, Rancés was recalled and on November 21, 1868 , he was transferred to Vienna as ambassador to Franz Joseph I. Then he met Ludwig II , Karl I. , Ludwig III. , Victoria and Victor Emmanuel II. He was only recalled in 1886.

Rancés worked closely with the Spanish Finance Minister Juan Francisco Camacho de Alcorta . Some of his correspondence has been preserved. This included correspondence with Foreign Minister Cristino Martos Balbi , Antonio Aguilar Correa and Carlos O'Donnell y Abreu (1834-1903).

Rancés was released into retirement in 1894. His son Guillermo Rancés y Esteban was a journalist.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ León Roch 75 años de periodismo, Con motivo de las Bodas de Diamante de La Época. la historia del periodismo madrileño Ramona Velasco Vidua de P. Pérez, Calle de la Libertad, 31, Madrid, 1923
2. ↑ Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (-Hungary) 1720-1920 , Böhlau, Vienna 1986, p. 245:

   "Emperor Franz Joseph received the new Spanish ambassador Manuel Rances y Villanueva on January 23, 1869 to receive his credentials and Beust wrote to his Spanish counterpart: Je me felicite, M. le Ministre, [...] "

3. ↑ León Roch Guiá diplomática de España, año de 1887 Imprenta y Fundición de Manuel Tello, Impresor de Cámara de SM, Madrid
4. ↑ Michael J. Fergus: The Rancés papers, a catalog of a spanish minister's correspondence: 1867–1897 in Newsletter of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Volume II, 7 & 8, May 1, 1974 (PDF; 2.0 MB )
5. ↑ Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, Instituto Luis de Salazar y Castroh, Archivo de la Deuda y Clases Pasivas: índice de jubilados, 1869-1911 p. 300
6. ^ Vanity Fair , August 26, 1871, Men of the day N ° 30, The Spanish Minister
7. ↑ Madrid January 30, 1890, La Ilustración española y americana (PDF; 544 kB) p. 59

predecessor	Office	successor
Juan Ximénez de Sandoval	Spanish envoy to Prussia 1862–1867	Miguel Tenorio de Castilla
	Spanish ambassador to Austria 1868–1869
Miguel de Bertodano y Patisson, El marqués del Moral Federico Rubio Gali José Luis Albareda	Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1869–1872 1875–1886 1890–1893	Segismundo Moret Prendergast Cipriano del Mazo Gherardi Cipriano del Mazo Gherardi