Description: LOT-G36. For your consideration is a rare and important hand-signed Royal manuscript document by Queen Maria Cristina of Spain, spouse of King Alfonso XII of Spain. Document reads: Since the Charg d'Affaires of the Republic of Mexico has represented that the President of the same he has named Don Marcos Daudn, Vice Consul of Mexico in Barcelona as it seems of the patent that he has exhibited, pleading I have to give him my approval so that he can serve said position and I have come in it: Therefore I send the Civil Governor of Barcelona and the other Authorities to whom he may touch the fulfillment of this my Royal ID, make and have the aforementioned Don Marcos Dandn for such Vice Consul of Mexico in Barcelona and they admit him to the use and exercise of his employment, with which he must not exercise any act of jurisdiction, allowing you only to file your arbitrator in disputes to be offered between merchants and seafarers to reconcile or settle them, In accordance with which, and not otherwise, I order you to be admitted to the use and exercise of your employment, and to let you carry and receive the rights and emoluments that by reason of the same they touch him, and that he enjoy the prerogative exemptions and liberties that must be kept, without putting any pregnancy on it: if it is understood that if he exercised trade or did any commercial operation, he would be treated, as regards this point, like any other foreign merchant without distinction. Given in Madrid on April twenty of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. Signed "I the Queen Regent" (Mara Cristina from Austria). Co-signed by The Minister of State: Francisco Silvela and Le Vielleuze. Archduchess Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria, also known as Maria Christina Henrietta Dsire Flicit Rnire[2] (21 July 1858 6 February 1929) was Queen of Spain as the second wife of King Alfonso XII. She was regent during the vacancy of the throne between her husband's death and her son's birth, and during the minority of their son, Alfonso XIII, between 1885 and 1902. Known to her family as Christa, she was born at idlochovice Castle (Gro Seelowitz), near Brnn (now Brno), in Moravia, a daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria. Her paternal grandparents were Archduke Charles of Austria and Princess Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg. Various sources attributed good traits to Maria Christina before her marriage. One states she was "tall, fair, sensible, and well educated". She was Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague (1875-1879).
Price: 562.46 USD
Location: Sparrows Point, Maryland
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Country: Spain
Country/Region of Manufacture: Spain
Features: Antique, Illustrated, Official Release
Royal: Queen Regent of Spain Maria Cristina of Austria
Royalty: Spanish Royalty
Signed: Yes
Theme: Royalty
To Commemorate: Royal Order / Decree
Type: Royal Document
Vintage: Yes
Year: 1899
Modification Description: Hand-Signed by Queen Regent of Spain, Maria Cristina of Au..
Modified Item: Yes