Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo de Borbón y Borbón; 28 November 185725 November 1885), also known as ''El Pacificador'' (Spanish: the Peacemaker), was

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from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885. After the

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of 1868 deposed his mother

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from the throne, Alfonso studied in

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and France. His mother abdicated in his favour in 1870, and he returned to Spain as king in 1874 following a military coup against the

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. Alfonso died aged 27 in 1885, leaving his pregnant widow,

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, as regent of Spain. Their son,

Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French language, French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May ...

, became king upon his birth the following year. Maria Christina continued as regent until Alfonso XIII came of age in 1902.

Paternity, early life, and exile

Alfonso was born in

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as the eldest son of the reigning Queen

on 28 November 1857. His official father, Isabella's husband Francisco de Asís, has been generally viewed as effeminate, impotent or homosexual, leading writers to question his biological paternity. There is speculation that Alfonso's biological father may have been Enrique Puigmoltó y Mayans, a captain of the guard. Others have assigned the fatherhood to Federico Puig Romero, a

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who was murdered under unclear circumstances in 1866. The relationship of the queen with Puigmoltó was so much of a public hearsay at the time that Francisco de Asís initially refused to attend the baptism ceremony of Alfonso (the heir apparent), though he was eventually forced to do so. These rumours were used as political propaganda against Alfonso by the

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, and he came to be widely nicknamed "Puigmoltejo" in reference to his supposed father. His mother's accession had created a second cause of instability, the

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, where the supporters of Don Carlos, Count of Molina as King of Spain rose to have him enthroned. In addition, within the context of the post-Napoleonic restorations and revolutions which engulfed Europe and the Americas, both the Carlistas and the Isabelino conservatives were opposed to the new Napoleonic constitutional system. Much like in Britain, which subtracted itself from the liberal constitutional process, Spanish conservatives wanted to continue with the traditional Organic Laws, such as the

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, the Novísima Recopilación and the Partidas of Alfonso X. This led to a third cause of instability, the independence of most of the American possessions, recognized between 1823 and 1850. When Queen Isabella II and her husband were forced to leave Spain by the

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, Alfonso accompanied them to Paris. From there, he was sent to the

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in Vienna to continue his studies. On 25 June 1870, he was recalled to Paris, where his mother abdicated in his favour, in the presence of a number of Spanish nobles who had tied their fortunes to those of the exiled queen. He assumed the name Alfonso XII, for although no king of united Spain had borne the name "Alfonso", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of

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, León and Castile also named

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The Republic

After the revolution, the ''Cortes'' decided to set up a new dynasty on the throne. Prince Amadeo of Savoy, the younger son of King

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and a distant cousin of Alfonso by common descent from

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, was recognized as King of Spain in November 1870. During a tumultuous reign, Amadeo was targeted by assassination attempts and struggled with opposition from both

and

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while his own faction split. After the Carlists revolted and the

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broke out, he

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and returned to Italy in early 1873. Following Amadeo's abandonment, the

was established, including the territories of

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and the Pacific Archipelagos. The first act of President

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was to extend the abolition of slavery to Puerto Rico; Cuban slaves would have to wait until 1889. The republicans were not in agreement either, and they had to contend with a war in Cuba and Muslim uprisings in

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. In the midst of these crises, the Carlist War continued and the Carlist party made itself strong in areas with claims over their national and institutional specificity such as

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and the Basque Country. This unrest led to the creation of a group in favour of the

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, led by the moderate conservative

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. Alfonso was well-educated and cultured, especially compared to his mother. His tutors took great care to have him educated in good schools and to familiarize him with different cultures, languages and government models throughout Europe. During the

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, Alfonso relocated from Paris to

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with his family, and then continued his studies at the

in Vienna in 1872. Cánovas began to take responsibility for Alfonso's education with the goal of shaping him into the ideal king for the planned Bourbon Restoration, and next sent him to the

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, in England. The training he received there was severe but more cosmopolitan than it would have been in Spain, given its atmosphere at the time. On 1 December 1874, Alfonso issued the Sandhurst Manifesto, where he set the ideological basis of the Bourbon Restoration. It was drafted in reply to a birthday greeting from his followers, a manifesto proclaiming himself the sole representative of the Spanish monarchy. At the end of 1874, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to

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, rallied the troops sent against him to his own flag, and entered

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in the king's name. Thereupon the President resigned, and his power was transferred to the king's plenipotentiary and adviser, Cánovas. With Cánovas disapproval (he detested the intervention of the military in politics), the 29 December 1875

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of Gen. Martínez Campos in Sagunto ended the failed republic and meant the rise of the young Prince Alfonso.

Reign

Within a few days after Cánovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at

, passing through

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and

and was acclaimed everywhere (1875). In 1876, a vigorous campaign against the

, in which the young king took part, resulted in the defeat of

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and the Duke's abandonment of the struggle. Initially led by Cánovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a civilian regime that lasted until

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's 1923 coup d'état. Cánovas was the real architect of the new regime of the Restoration. In 1881 Alfonso refused to sanction a law by which the ministers were to remain in office for a fixed term of 18 months. Upon the consequent resignation of Cánovas del Castillo, he summoned

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, the Liberal leader, to form a new cabinet. Homburg Castle Monarchs

In order to eliminate one of the problems of the reign of

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, the single party and its destabilizing consequences, the Liberal Party was allowed to incorporate and participate in national politics, and the ' turnismo' or alternation was to become the new system. Turnismo would be endorsed in the

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and the

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(1885). It meant that liberal and conservative prime ministers would succeed each other ending thus the troubles. This led to the end of the Carlist revolts and the victory over the New York-backed Cuban revolutionaries, and led to a huge backing both by insular and peninsular Spaniards of Alfonso. King Alfonso XII

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain, bringing an end to the political instability that had dominated Spain for the past two-thirds of a century (see

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). Both Europe (the coastal regions, such as the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Asturias) and the colonies in the Antilles and Pacific were able to grow steadily. Cuba and Puerto Rico prospered to the point that Spain's first train was not in Spain proper but between

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in Cuba, and the first telegraph in Latin America was in Puerto Rico, established by

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, whose daughter and son-in-law lived there. Upon the American invasion of Puerto Rico, ten US dollars were needed to buy one Puerto Rican peso.

Marriages

On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his first cousin, Princess

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, but she died, aged only 18, of typhoid fever, their marriage only lasting five months and three days. On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in

, Alfonso married his double third cousin, Archduchess

. During the honeymoon, a pastry cook named Otero fired at the young sovereign and his wife as they were driving in Madrid. The children of this marriage were: *

, Princess of Asturias, (11 September 188017 October 1904), married on 14 February 1901 to

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. She was titular heir to the throne of Spain from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother. *

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, (12 November 188223 September 1912), married to

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on 12 January 1906 *

(17 May 188628 February 1941). Born posthumously. He married Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala (15 December 1849, in

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– 24 December 1898, in Paris): * Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala (28 January 1880, in Madrid19 March 1970, in Paris), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal *

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(28 February 1881, in Madrid8 January 1925, in Pau, France), unmarried and without issue

Death and impact

In November 1885, Alfonso died aged 27 at the

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near Madrid. He had been suffering from

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, but the immediate cause of his death was a recurrence of

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. In 1902, his widow Maria Cristina initiated a national contest to build a monument in memory of Alfonso. The winning design, by

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, was constructed in an artificial lake in Madrid's

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in 1922. Coming to the throne at such an early age, Alfonso had served no apprenticeship in the art of ruling. Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting districts ravaged by

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or devastated by the 1884 Andalusian earthquake. His capacity for dealing with men was considerable, and he never allowed himself to become the instrument of any particular party. During his short reign, peace was established both at home and abroad, finances were well regulated, and the various administrative services were placed on a basis that afterwards enabled Spain to pass through the disastrous war with the United States without the threat of a revolution.

Honours

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, ''1857'' * : Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, ''1861'' Retrieved 22 September 2018. * French Empire: Grand Cross of the

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, ''March 1863'' * : Knight of St. Hubert, ''1865'' * : Grand Cross of St. Charles, ''7 September 1865'' * : Grand Cordon of the

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: Knight of the Black Eagle, ''13 June 1875'' *

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: Knight of the Seraphim, ''23 October 1877'' * : Knight of the Elephant, ''8 January 1878'' * : Knight of the Annunciation, ''4 February 1878'' * : Grand Cordon of the

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, ''11 September 1879'' * : Stranger Knight Companion of the Garter, ''24 October 1881''Shaw, Wm. A. (1906) ''The Knights of England'', I, London
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Ancestry

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