Salvador de Itúrbide y de Marzán
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Don Salvador of Iturbide (b. Mexico City, 18 September 1849 - d. Ajaccio, Corsica, 26 February 1895) son of His Highness Salvador de Iturbide y Huarte and Her Highness, Princess Rosario Marzan y Guisasola; Grandson of His Imperial Majesty, Agustín I of Mexico, by his grandmother, Empress Anna María, he was descendant of the Tagle family, one of the most important noble families in Spain and Mexico in the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries. He was adopted by Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (September 13, 1865). He was a member of the Order of the Grand Cross of Our Lady of Guadalupe and awarded with the Personal Order of Charles (the Duke of Madrid).
His adoptive mother, Empress Carlota of Mexico sent him to France, where he lived at Paris until 1867, when he moved to Hungary showing his rejection to the emperor Napoleon III. After seeking the right to a pension as an heir to the Mexican throne, he was awarded one by the Emperor Franz Joseph, Emperor Maximilian's brother; Don Salvador regularly petitioned to have it increased. In Vienna Itúrbide become friend of a young Hungarian aristocrat, Baron Gyula Gáspár Mikos de Taródhaza who had just returned from a long trip trough South-America. Itúrbide was invited to the Mikos family estate in Mikosdpuszta, where he was introduced to Baroness Gizella Mikos. The introduction turned into romance and on the June 21, 1871 Don Salvador and Baroness Gizela were married at Mikosdpuszta castle.
Following the marriage the pair lived in Mikosdpuszta but the owner of the estate, Baron János Mikos, brother of Baroness Gizella, followed a prodigal lifestyle and he had to sell the castle in 1881.
Itúrbide and his wife moved to Venice, and lived in a palace, rented to Count Zeno. In this place, he became a close friend of Carlos, Duke of Madrid, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne. While visiting Corsica, he became sick and died of an appendix rupture.
[edit] See also
- History of Mexico
- Agustín I of Mexico
- Maximilian I of Mexico
- Charlotte of Belgium
- Maximilian von Götzen-Iturbide
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| Preceded by Prince Salvador of Iturbide-Huarte |
Prince of Mexico 1849-1895 |
Succeeded by Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide-Mikos |
