Don

Don (honorific)

Don, from Latin dominus, is an honorific in Spanish , Portuguese , and Italian . The female equivalent is Doña , Dona , and Donna , abbreviated "Dª" or simply "D."-Usage:...

 Luis José Sartorius y Tapia, 1st Count of San Luis (Seville

Seville

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, Spain

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, 1820 – Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain, 22 February 1871) was a Spanish noble, politician and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Spain

Prime Minister of Spain

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 from 1853 to 1854, during the reign of Queen Isabella II

Isabella II of Spain

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Sartorius, a man of very traditional convictions, was the leader of a faction of the Moderate Party

Moderate Party (Spain)

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 which, because of his Polish origin, was known as the polacos (English

English language

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: the polish). His newspaper, El Herlado, became one of the mainstays of the moderates during the regency of the progressivist

Progressive Party (Spain)

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 Baldomero Espartero

Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara

Don Joaquín Baldomero Fernández-Espartero y Alvarez de Toro, 1st Prince of Vergara, 1st Duke of la Victoria, 1st Duke of Morella, 1st Count of Luchana, 1st Viscount of Banderas was a Spanish general and political figure...

. During the Moderate decade

Década moderada

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(1844-1854), Sartorius held several political offices, such as Minister of Gobernation, and reached to be Prime Minister in 1853.

Family

Sartorius married María de los Remedios Chacón y Romero de Cisneros, daughter of Rafael Chacón, 7th Marquis of Cela and María del Amparo Romero de Cisneros y Nagüens. They had to children:

• Doña Isabel Sartorius y Chacón (b. 1874), died unmarried and without issue.

• Doña Laura Sartorius y Chacón, married to Enrique Maldonado y Carvajal, with issue.

• Doña Leonor Sartorius y Chacón, died as an infant.

• Don Luis Sartorius y Chacón, died as an infant.

• Don José Sartorius y Chacón, died as an infant.

• Doña María de la Concepción Sartorius y Chacón (1859-1887), married to Juan de Dios Pareja-Obregón, 7th Count of la Camorra, with issue.

• Don Fernando Sartorius, 2nd Count of San Luis (1860-1920), married to María del Carmen Díaz de Mendoza y Aguayo, with issue.