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Regència d'Urgell

la Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Historical milestone · la Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell, Lleida

Image of la Seu d'Urgell, not of the place itself.

After the capture of la Seu d'Urgell by Antonio Marañón, El Trapense, in July 1822, royalists opposed to the constitutional regime set up here, on 15 August, an alternative government presided over by Archbishop Jaume Creus, with the Marqués de Mataflorida as the true soul of the body and the Barón de Eroles tasked with turning the guerrilla bands into an organized army, a task that proved impossible. There was little agreement among its members: while Ferdinand VII was being proclaimed absolute king, the Barón de Eroles was independently calling for a cortes that would moderate royal power. General Espoz y Mina, appointed captain general of Catalonia, occupied the city on 11 November 1822, and the Regency moved to Llívia and then to France, where its members went their separate ways.

1822

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