Manuel Godoy
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Manuel de Godoy y Álvarez de Faria Ríos, 1st Prince of the Peace was First Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and from 1801 to 1808. He was one of the central Spanish politic
Goya: Detail of the Portrait of Manuel Godoy, 1801
Godoy in 1788 as a Guardia de Corps, by Francisco Folch de Cardona
Godoy wearing the cross of the Order of Santiago (c. 1790, anonymous)
Godoy by Francisco Bayeu (1790)
Tumult of Aranjuez
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The Tumult of Aranjuez, also known as the Mutiny of Aranjuez, was an uprising against Prime Minister Manuel Godoy and Charles IV of Spain that took place in the town of Aranjuez on 17–19 March 1808. I
Manuel Godoy
…He has been partly blamed for the Anglo-Spanish War of 1796–1808 that weakened the Spanish Empire. Godoy's unmatched power ended in 1808 with the Tumult of Aranjuez, which forced him into a long exile. He died in Paris in 1851. Godoy was born in Badajoz as the youngest child of José de Godoy Cáceres Ovando y Ríos…
Fall and Imprisonment of the Prince of Peace, Manuel Godoy