Montijo, Cipriano Palafox y Portocarrero, count of |
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BORN 15 Sep 1784 - DIED 15 Mar 1839, Madrid GRAVE LOCATION Madrid: San Lorenzo y San Jose, Calle de la Verdad (next to Southern general Cemetery) (in the 2nd patio, between four cypress trees) |
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Cipriano Palafox y Portocarrero was the son of Felipe Antonio Palafox-Croy de Havre (1739-1790) and Maria Francesca de Sales-Portocarrero, 6th countess of Montijo (1754-1808). He was a radical and a believer in freedom. He fought for the French against the old establishment during the Napoleonic Wars. He lost and eye and was honoured by Napoleon I in Paris. Under the name of Portocarrero he joint the defense of Paris in 1814 on the hills of Montmartre, commanding the troops that fired the last shots at the approaching allied forces. He married Maria Manuela Kirkpatrick in 1817 and they had two daughters, Paco and Eugénie, who became empress of France. When the author Prosper Merimée lived in French he became friends with Cipriano and his wife. In 1834 he succeeded his brother Eugénio as count of Montijo. He didn't care for the social entertainment that his ravishing wife centered in and left the foreign education of his daughters to her. He died in 1839 in Madrid. He was buried at cemetery of the San Lorenzo y San Jose in Madrid where his wife was buried beside him fourty years later. Family • Wife: Kirkpatrick, Maria Manuela, countess of Montijo (1817-, Granada) Events |
| 12/3/1857 | Empress Eugénie 'meets' her deceased father through Daniel D. Home. She communicated via handshakes with her father who had died exactly 18 years earlier. Empreror Napoleon III was present as well. His half brother thought Home was an imposter and threatened to resign as Minister of Foreign Affairs if the seances at the Tuilleries wouldn't stop. [Home, Daniel Dunglas][Napoleon III Bonaparte] |
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 The grave of Cipriano and Maria Manuela de Montijo at the cementerio San Lorenzo y San Jose, Madrid. Picture by Androom (07 May 2012) |
 The grave of Cipriano and Maria Manuela de Montijo at the cementerio San Lorenzo y San Jose, Madrid. Picture by Androom (07 May 2012) |
Sources • Gooch, C.H., The Second Empire, Longmans, London, 1960 • Ridley, Jasper, Napoleon III and Eugénie, Constable, London, 1979 • Cipriano de Palafox, 8th Count of Montijo - Wikipedia |
