Patrick Laules

Patrick Laules (* 1676 in Kilkenny , † March 19, 1739 in Palma , also Patricio Lolles or Briaen Lawless ) was a Spanish general and diplomat of Irish origin.

Life

Laules was the son of Gualterio Laule from Kilkenny and Anna Briaen from Jenkinstown . In 1690 the royalist family fled Ireland in the wake of King James II . Laules entered the military and made a career during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). He entered the service of King Philip V of Spain and was entrusted with the royal guard in Madrid in 1703 . In 1708 he was given the dignity of Chavalier de Alcántara and the rank of Brigadier General . After being on 16 March 1711 nor the Maréchal de camp had risen, he was in 1713 as chargé determined by the Spanish Government in the UK, where he stayed from February 1713 to June 1714.

After his return he mainly represented the interests of the Jacobites in the Spanish government . During the war of the Quadruple Alliance , Laules was sent to Sweden to meet with King Charles XII. to negotiate a joint military landing in Scotland . But already on his way via Amsterdam and Hamburg he learned of the death of the Swedish king, whereupon he received the order to go to Saint Petersburg and meet Tsar Peter I.

After Laules had been promoted to lieutenant general (June 5, 1719) he was entrusted on March 8, 1720 with the post of government chargé d'affaires in Paris , where he arrived on May 15. On March 27, 1721 he received the rank of ambassador . In connection with the failure of the Franco-Spanish marriage plans and the return of Maria Anna from Spain , Lolles was also recalled on March 19, 1725. He and the Infanta left France on May 17th. On November 27, 1725 he finally took over the office of governor of Mallorca and Ibiza , for which he had already been designated December 23, 1721.

literature

• Didier Ozanam: Les diplomates espagnols du XVIIIe siècle - Introduction et répertoire biographique (1700-1808) , Casa de Velazquez, Madrid 1998, p. 313f

predecessor	Office	successor
Ysidoro Casado de Acevedo y del Mazo 1. Marques de Monteleone	Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom February 10, 1713 to June 1714	Antonio Casado y Velasco, Marques Monteléon