Charles IV of Spain
King of Spain from 1788 to 1808 · Spain · Historical Figures · Lived 1748 to 1819 · aged 70
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Something wrong?The Spanish king who lost an empire not to war but to his own son's coup and Napoleon's ambition. Charles IV inherited stability in 1788 and handed the crown to a French Bonaparte twenty years later.
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Charles IV became King of Spain in 1788, taking the throne of an empire that looked stable. His reign drained the treasury through bad alliances and constant war, while his first minister Manuel Godoy became widely hated. Charles detested his own heir Ferdinand, who tried once to seize power in the failed El Escorial Conspiracy, then succeeded in March 1808 during the Tumult of Aranjuez - forcing his father's abdication and Godoy's removal. Napoleon summoned both father and son to Bayonne, made Ferdinand abdicate, then took Charles's abdication too, clearing the throne for Napoleon's brother Joseph. What began as inherited stability ended as the turning point that broke Spanish power.
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