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RIANSARES, AUGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MUSOZ, DUKE

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 281 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIANSARES, AUGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MUSOZ, DUKE of (r8o8 or 1810-1873), morganatic
husband
  of Maria Christina, queen and regent of Spain, was born at Taranc6n, in the province of Cuenca, in New Castile. His father was the keeper of an " estanco " or office for the sale of the tobacco of the government
monopoly
 . He enlisted in the bodyguard, and attracted the attention of the queen. According to one account, he distinguished himself by stopping the runaway horses of her carriage; according to another, he only picked up her hand-kerchief; a third and scandalous explanation of his fortune has been given. It is certain that the queen married him privately, very soon after the death of her
husband
  on the 29th of September 1833. By publishing her
marriage
 , Maria Christina would have forfeited the regency; but her relations with Munoz were perfectly well known. When on the 13th of August 1836 the soldiers on duty at the summer palace, La Granja, mutinied and forced the regent to grant a constitution, it was generally, though wrongly, believed that they over-came her reluctance by seizing Munoz, whom they called her " guapo," or fancy man, and threatening to shoot him. When in 184o the queen found her position intolerable and fled the country, Munoz went with her and the
marriage
  was published, and on the overthrow of Espartero in 1843 the couple returned. In 1844 Queen
Isabella
  II., who was now declared to be of age, gave her consent to her
mother
 's marriage, which was publicly performed. Munoz was created duke of Riansares and made a knight of the Golden Fleece. By Louis Philippe, king of the French, he was created duke of Mont=Morot and Grand
Cross
  of the Legion of Honour. Until his wife was finally driven, from Spain by the revolutionary
movement
  of 1854, the duke is credibly reported to have applied himself to making a large fortune out of railway concessions and by judicious stock exchange speculations. Political ambitions he had none, and it is said that he declined the offer of the crown of
Ecuador
 . All authorities agree that he was not only good-looking, but kindly and well-bred. He died five years before his wife at L'Adresse, near
Havre
 , on the 11th of September 1873. Several children were born of the marriage.


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