Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish diplomat and politician (1765-1824)
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Place of Birth: Cartagena, Region of Murcia, Spain
About Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo
- Carlos Martínez de Irujo y Tacón, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo (Cartagena 1763 – Madrid 1824), was a Spanish Prime Minister and diplomat, Knight of the Order of Carlos III and public official. His father was Manuel Martinez de Irujo y de Erice and his mother Narcisa Tacón y Gamiz (born Beriain, Navarre, 1740).
- He had two siblings, Narcisa Martínez de Irujo y Tacón and María Rafaela Martínez de Irujo y Tacón. Casa Irujo (often spelled Yrujo) was the Spanish minister to the United States from 1796 to 1807.
- Casa Irujo changed positions and became minister at Rio de Janeiro and then Paris.He was Secretary of state (Prime Minister) of Spain (ministro de estado) three times, first in 1812, then in an interim capacity from 1818 to 1819, and finally for a few weeks from December 1823 until his death in January 1824. In 1794 while an attaché at the Spanish embassy in London he had an illegitimate daughter named Lavinia de Irujo.
- Lavinia herself later gave birth to two daughters Fredericka and Frances out of wedlock, the father being Major Charles Jones (father of Ernest Jones, a poet, dramatist and novelist.) There are several drawings of Lavinia by the artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825). In 1798 Don Carlos married Sarah McKean, the daughter of Pennsylvania governor Thomas McKean.
- The couple have been described as " intriguers of the highest order." Their son Carlos Martínez de Irujo y McKean (1802-1855), Duque of Sotomayor, became prime minister of Spain for a short period in 1847.
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