11 November 1748 Palace of Portici, Portici, Naples
Died
20 January 1819(1819-01-20) (aged 70) Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Papal States
Burial
El Escorial
Spouse
Maria Luisa of Parma
(m. 1765; died 1819)
Issue
Carlota Joaquina, Queen of Portugal and Brazil
María Amalia, Infanta of Spain
María Luisa, Queen of Etruria
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain
Infante Carlos, Count of Molina
María Isabel, Queen of the Two Sicilies
Infante Francisco de Paula
Names
Spanish: Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego de Borbón y Sajonia
House
Bourbon
Father
Charles III of Spain
Mother
Maria Amalia of Saxony
Religion
Catholic Church
Signature
Charles IV (Spanish: Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego de Borbón y Sajonia; 11 November 1748 – 20 January 1819) was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1788 to 1808.
The Spain inherited by Charles IV gave few indications of instability,[1] but during his reign, Spain entered a series of disadvantageous alliances and his regime constantly sought cash to deal with the exigencies of war. He detested his son and heir Ferdinand, who led the unsuccessful El Escorial Conspiracy and later forced Charles's abdication after the Tumult of Aranjuez in March 1808, along with the ouster of his widely hated first minister Manuel de Godoy. Summoned to Bayonne by Napoleon Bonaparte, who forced Ferdinand VII to abdicate, Charles IV also abdicated, paving the way for Napoleon to place his older brother Joseph Bonaparte on the throne of Spain. The reign of Charles IV turned out to be a major turning point in Spanish history.[2][3]
^Lynch, John. Bourbon Spain, 1700–1808. Basil Blackwell 1989, p. 375
^Lynch, "Charles IV and the Crisis of Bourbon Spain", Chapter 10, Bourbon Spain.
^"Charles IV of Spain and His Family hides a rulers caricature". Hypercritic. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
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