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Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Rios (12 May 1767, Badajoz, Spain – 4 October 1851, Paris, France), 1st Prince of the Peace, 1st Duke of Alcudia, 1st Duke of Sueca, 1st Baron of Mascalbó, was the First Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and then from 1801 to 1808, and as such, one of the central Spanish political figures during the rise of Napoleon and his ...
May 9, 2024 · Manuel de Godoy (born May 12, 1767, Castuera, Spain—died October 4, 1851, Paris, France) was a Spanish royal favourite and twice prime minister, whose disastrous foreign policy contributed to a series of misfortunes and defeats that culminated in the abdication of King Charles IV and the occupation of Spain by the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Manuel Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Ríos ( Badajoz, 12 de mayo de 1767- París, 4 de octubre de 1851) fue un noble y político español, favorito y primer ministro de Carlos IV entre 1792 y 1798, y hombre fuerte en la sombra de 1800 a 1808. Fue duque de la Alcudia y de Sueca y príncipe de la Paz por su negociación de la Paz de Basilea en 1795 ...
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Manuel Godoy: Prince of Peace. Though some recent historians have been kind to the favourite, writes Douglas Hilt, during his lifetime Manuel Godoy was generally denounced as an intriguing parvenu. Few men, both during and after their lives, have been so generally vilified by an entire nation as has Godoy ‘el Principe da la Paz ’ Hardly an ...
Godoy, Manuel (1767–1851)Manuel Godoy (b. 12 May 1767; d. 4 October 1851), first minister and favorite of Charles IV of Spain. Godoy was born into a modest hidalgo family in Estremadura. He obtained an adequate education in the liberal arts and, at the age of nineteen, entered the royal bodyguards. From this position he rose to power rapidly ...
Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Rios, 1st Prince of the Peace, 1st Duke of Alcudia, 1st Duke of Sueca, 1st Baron of Mascalbó, was the First Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and then from 1801 to 1808, and as such, one of the central Spanish political figures during the rise of Napoleon and his invasion of Spain.
Godoy, Manuel de. Manuel de Godoy (mänwĕl´ dā gōŧħoi´), 1767–1851, Spanish statesman. An army officer, he won the favor of Queen María Luisa and rose rapidly at the court of Charles IV. The king made him chief minister in 1792, and except for a brief eclipse from power (1798–1801), Godoy ruled continuously until 1808.
