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See also:DUKE AUGUSTIN See also:FERNANDEZ MUSOZ See also:RIANSARES
of (r8o8 or 1810-1873), morganatic See also:husband of Maria See also:Christina, See also:queen and See also:regent of See also:Spain, was See also:born at Taranc6n, in the See also:province of See also:Cuenca, in New See also:Castile
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His See also:father was the keeper of an " estanco " or See also:office for the See also:sale of the See also:tobacco of the See also:government See also:monopoly
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He enlisted in the bodyguard, and attracted the See also:attention of the queen
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According to one See also:account, he distinguished himself by stopping the runaway horses of her See also:carriage; according to another, he only picked up her See also:hand-kerchief; a third and scandalous explanation of his See also:fortune has been given
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It is certain that the queen married him privately, very soon after the See also:death of her husband on the 29th of See also:September 1833
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By See also:publishing her See also:marriage, Maria Christina would have forfeited the regency; but her relations with Munoz were perfectly well known
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When on the 13th of See also:August 1836 the soldiers on See also:duty at the summer See also:palace, La Granja, mutinied and forced the regent to See also: See also:Political ambitions he had none, and it is said that he declined the offer of the See also:crown of See also:Ecuador . All authorities agree that he was not only See also:good-looking, but kindly and well-bred . He died five years before his wife at L'Adresse, near See also:Havre, on the 11th of September 1873 . Several See also:children were born of the marriage . |
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Dear Sirs: I beg to disagree with your information. The correct name of the Duque of Riansares was: Joaquin Fernando Munoz Sanchez. I am one of his direct descendants from his four son. Your very truly, Rodrigo Munoz De Ribadeneira
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