Pedro Agar y Bustillo

Pedro Agar y Bustillo

Pedro Agar y Bustillo (born June 19, 1763 in Bogotá , today: Colombia , † October 2, 1822 in Madrid , Spain) was a Spanish naval officer who ruled the war of liberation against Napoleon as the Spanish regent.

Life

Pedro agar agar Father Benito y Leis came from La Coruna and was with his wife, María Josefa de Bustillo y Pérez to the New World to New Granada migrated. Pedro Agar was born there in June 1763 in Santa Fé de Bogotá .

At sixteen he began his service at the cadet institute of the Spanish Navy in Cadiz . In addition to his training, he was used in the siege of Gibraltar (1779–1783) in 1783 . From 1791 to 1796 he was assigned to the naval engineering corps.

His skills in mathematics made him director of the Naval Academy in Ferrol from 1800 . In 1802 he was promoted to frigate captain and married Teresa de Castro y Domínguez, the daughter of a colleague. In 1804 he was appointed director of all naval academies.

His left leg had to be amputated as a result of an illness. He was thus excluded from active duty at sea.

In 1808, the French under Napoléon Bonaparte held the newly crowned Spanish King Ferdinand VII prisoner in exile. In the war of liberation against Napoleon , the junta Suprema Central organized the resistance and conducted the state business. After the convening of the Cortes of Cadiz , a regency ( Consejo de Regencia ) was supposed to take over the executive tasks. Agar was appointed regent of the Spanish Kingdom on October 28, 1810 by the Cortes, together with General Joaquín Blake y Joyes and Gabriel Ciscar y Ciscar .

Government activity was essentially limited to continuing the war with the support of Portugal and England . The reign ended in 1812. In January 1812 Agar was appointed to the State Council.

After the Constitution of Cádiz was passed, Agar was appointed to Madrid in March 1813 as a member of the provisional government ( Regencia provisional ), which at that time was again in the hands of the Spanish.

After King Ferdinand's return from exile, the revocation of the constitution and the resumption of absolutist rule, Agar was arrested and had to remain in prison in Betanzos until 1820 .

In the course of the liberal revolution of 1820 he was released and was appointed chairman of the regional junta of La Coruña, a little later as captain general of Galicia .

After his first wife died, he remarried in late 1820, the 24-year-old Francisca de Paula Roldán y Riobóo. The daughter Manuela Agar y Roldán from this marriage later married the Field Marshal Francisco García de Paredes y Losada and thus became Countess of Taboada.

In 1821 he became chairman of the parliament ( Diputación ) in liberally ruled Spain : before the end of the liberal episode, he died in Madrid.

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