Person
Cañas Portocarrero, Vicente María de (1755-1824)Other forms
Valladolid (España) 1755 - Cádiz (España) 1824-03-12
Spanish soldier and politician. 4th Marquis of Castillo and 4th Duke of Parque.
He was the son of Joaquín Cañas Trelles, 5th Duke of the Parque, Marquis of Vallecerrato, and Agustina Portocarrero Maldonado, Marchioness of Castrillo and Villavieja. He inherited all the titles, and also obtained others like Count of Belmonte de Tajo, Prince of the Sala de lo Parinico, Baron of Beguiulfo and the Grandeeship, first class, from 1792. (1792). He married María del Rosario Riaño Velázquez, Countess of Villariezo.
During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) he was Lieutenant General and military leader commanding Spanish forces at the Battle of Tamames, El Carpio and Alba de Tormes. He initially accepted José Bonaparte as King, but after the Battle of Bailén, he switched to the patriotic side.
He was deputy and president of the Congress of Deputies, Ambassador in Paris and President of the Cortes, President of the Real Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País (1819-1820).
He was government representative for Valladolid (1822) and refugee in Cádiz during the invasion of the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis (1823). When absolutism returned (1823), King Ferdinand VII deprived him of all his positions and honors after the end of the Tirenio Liberal (Liberal Triennium). He passed away in Cádiz the following year.
Date of the event: 1820 - 1823