Augustin Ier of Mexico

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide there Arámburu (September 27th 1783 - July 19th 1824), soldier, Politician and emperor of the Mexico.

Iturbide was born in Valladolid in News-Spain (current Mexico), nowadays called Morelia with the Michoacán. He was the son of Spanish parents made to News-Spain little before his birth.

Military career

He engages in the Spanish army in 1798 and he is promoted with the rank of lieutenant in 1810. This year the Guerre of independence of Mexico burst, and Iturbide fought at the beginning with the Spanish troops to repress it.

It was an able military commander and in 1816 it was put at the head of the Spanish forces in the north of Mexico.

Rebel

He became more and more attracted by the Mexican cause and he began secret negotiations with the chief rebels Vicente Guerrero. In 1820, Iturbide joined the rebels, involving with him the greatest part of its army, which was devoted for him. In February 1821, Iturbide and Guerrero presented the Plan of Iguala calling to plain and independent Mexico.

They succeeded in rejoining the others rebellious and driving out the Spanish royalists out of the country. Iturbide became the chief of the new junta. It signed an agreement of compensation with the emigrants who turned over to Spain for the value of the goods that they left. As these Spaniards had the best grounds of the country that exhausted the treasury of the country, that put the nation in a state of bankruptcy (even the silver bells and the gold furnace bridges were molten).

Emperor

Iturbide constant and was influenced by the conservatives who wished Mexico with a monarch resulting from one of the royal families of Europe. When no family accepted this proposal (because Spain had always the hope to recover Mexico), Iturbide was persuaded by its advisers to be made itself emperor with the manner of Napoleon Bonaparte. Iturbide did it with a real hesitation because he sincerely believed in the kings of divine Droit, and although he was with a certain degree of royal blood, he felt some unworthy.

The July 21st 1822, it was crowned Augustin Ier, constitutional emperor of Mexico.

Iturbide tried to control as it had carried out the army, giving orders and ordering which one imprisons those which disputed. The opposition to its administration believed, and in 1823 several regional governors and military commanders, whose Guadalupe Victoria and Antonio López de Santa Anna, presented the Plan Put Subdued , calling with the inversion of Iturbide and to declare Mexico a republic. March 19th 1823, Iturbide abdicated and agreed to leave the country without combat in exchange of a pension. It sailed in exile in Italy, then settled with London where it published its autobiography: Statement of some of the principal events in the public life of Agustín de Iturbide .

It decided to go back to Mexico and unloaded with Tamaulipas on July 15th, 1824, where it immediately was stopped and quickly shot by the local authorities.

In 1838, the conservative government of Anastasio Bustamante moved the body of Iturbide in the cathedral of Mexico City and out of ground in large pump with the title of national liberator put it.

In 1865, its grandson Agustín de Iturbide Green was named there heir to the nation by only the other emperor Maximilien I {{er}} of Mexico.

Descent

Agustín Jerónimo, died without child in 1866, except a natural girl Jesusa de Iturbide
Ángel de Iturbide, to which the son Agustín de Iturbide Green was the last heir to the throne there, his/her daughter María Josefa, Princesa de Iturbide not having been recognized like such.

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