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The Most Excellent
The Marquess of Estella
Photograph by Kaulak
102nd and 115th Governor and Captain-General of the Philippines
In office
April 23, 1897 – April 11, 1898
Preceded byJosé de Lachambre
Succeeded byBasilio Augustín
In office
April 15, 1880 – March 10, 1883
Preceded byRafael Rodríguez Arias
Succeeded byEmilio Molíns
Personal details
Born24 July 1831
Sevilla, Spain
DiedMay 23, 1921(1921-05-23) (aged 89)
Madrid, Spain
RelativesJosé Antonio Primo de Rivera (grandnephew)[1]

Fernando Primo de Rivera y Torres Rovellas, 1st Marquess of Estella (24 July 1831 – 23 May 1921) was a Spanish politician and soldier.

Fernando Primo de Rivera was the son of Antonio Hermenegildo Primo de Rivera y Sobremonte and his wife Ana María de Torres Rovellas y Peña Vélez (1811–1865); she was the daughter of Miguel de Torres Rovellas y Peña Vélez, 13th Count of Torres Rovellas, 8th Marquess of Peña Vélez (1764–1851). His grandfather was Bértrand Primo de Rivera (1741–1813): he was a Spanish general under the Spanish Resistance against Napoleon Bonaparte.

He served in several wars, including the 1848 and 1866 Madrid insurrections and the second Carlista War. When forces under his command in the second Carlist War captured Estella, he was named Marquess of Estella. He was the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines from 1880 to 1883. In 1897, he again became the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. He temporarily suspended hostilities in the Philippine Revolution through negotiations with Emilio Aguinaldo in the Pact of Biak-na-Bato[2] and acted briefly as Governor-General of the Philippines. He was a Minister and the 70th Prime Minister of Spain for one day between 30 and 31 December 1874. He was created the 1st Marquess of Estella[3] on 25 May 1877, the 1,124th Knight of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece and the 287th Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Our Lady of the Concepcion of Vila Viçosa of Portugal in 1879.

He was married in Sevilla on 18 June 1857 to María del Pilar Arias-Quiroga y Escalera (Sevilla, Alcolea del Río, c. 1835 – 10 May 1894), 745th Dame of the Royal Order of Queen María Luisa, daughter of Juan Arias-Quiroga y Mejías, 7th Marquess of Arias-Quiroga and his wife María Manuela de Escalera y Fernández de Peñaranda, daughter of Roberto de Escalera y Fernandez de Peñarada, 46th Lord of Peñaranda, by whom he had no issue. He was also the uncle of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the Spanish dictator, and granduncle of the founder of the Falange Española, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera.

References

  1. ^ Thomàs, Joan Maria (3 May 2019). José Antonio Primo de Rivera: The Reality and Myth of a Spanish Fascist Leader. Berghahn Books. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-78920-209-0. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  2. ^ Ma. Guerrero, Amadis (25 June 2000). "In Bulacan, the come on is history". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  3. ^ Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. Burke's Peerage. p. 625. ISBN 978-0-85011-028-9. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
Government offices Preceded byRafael Rodríguez Arias Governor-General of the Philippines 1880–1883 Succeeded byEmilio Molíns Preceded byJosé de Lachambre Governor-General of the Philippines 1897–1898 Succeeded byBasilio Augustín Spanish nobility New creation Marquess of Estella 1877–1921 Succeeded byMiguel Primo de Rivera
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