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)
Charles IV of Spain
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Charles IV was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1788 to 1808.
Manuel Godoy
…central Spanish political figures during the rise of Napoleon and his invasion of Spain. Godoy came to power at a young age as the favourite of King Charles IV and Queen Maria Luisa, with whom he had a sexual relationship. He has been partly blamed for the Anglo-Spanish War of 1796–1808 that weakened the Spanish…
Portrait by Francisco Goya, 1789
The Family of Charles IV
Count de Floridablanca, painting by Goya ca. 1782–83
Count of Aranda