List of Spanish regents

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This is a list of Spanish regents, a regent, from the Latin regens "one who reigns", is a person selected to act as head of state (ruling or not) because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated.{{NoteTag|The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term as "A person appointed to administer a State because the Monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated."}}

Reign of [[Joanna of Castile|Joanna, Queen of Castile and Aragon]]

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|align="center"|Crown of Castile:
Ferdinand II of Aragon

|align="center"|26 November 1504
Death of Queen Isabella the Catholic.

|align="center"|27 June 1506
Queen Joanna and King Philip I's arrival.

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|align="center"|Crown of Castile:
Ferdinand II of Aragon

|align="center"|17 August 1507
Death of King Philip I of Castile in September 1506, followed by the recognition of the incapacity of Queen Joanna.

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|align="center"|Crown of Castile:
Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

|align="center"|23 January 1516
Death of King Ferdinand II.

|align="center"|19 September 1517
King Charles I's arrival.

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|align="center"|Crown of Aragon:
Alonso de Aragón
Queen's Guardian
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Germaine of Foix
Lieutenant General

|align="center"|23 January 1516
Death of King Ferdinand II.

|align="center"|29 July 1518
Charles I become co-monarch with his mother Queen Joanna.

Reign of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles I]]

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colspan=4 | {{resize|125%|Regencies (Governor of the Realms)}} during Charles I's absences.{{Cite book|last=Pernot|first=François|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odHPDNRj56cC&pg=PA32|title=La Franche-Comté espagnole: à travers les archives de Simancas, une autre histoire des Franc-Comtois et de leurs relations avec l'Espagne de 1493 à 1678|date=2003|publisher=Presses Univ. Franche-Comté|isbn=978-2-84867-032-4|language=fr}}
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|align="center"|Cardinal Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens

|align="center"|May 1520

|align="center"|July 1522
King Charles I's arrival.

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|align="center"|Empress Isabella

|align="center"|July 1529

|align="center"|April 1533
King Charles I's arrival.

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|align="center"|Empress Isabella

|align="center"|April 1535

|align="center"|December 1536
King Charles I's arrival.

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|align="center"|Empress Isabella

|align="center"|July 1538

|align="center"|November 1539

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|align="center"|Prince Philip{{Cite web|title=Carlos V - Carlos de Gante - Los viajes del emperador|url=https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/historia/CarlosV/1539.shtml|access-date=2022-12-31|website=www.cervantesvirtual.com}}

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Death of Empress Isabella.

|align="center"|November 1541
King Charles I's arrival.

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|align="center"|Prince Philip

|align="center"|May 1543

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|align="center"|Archduke Maximilian{{Cite web|title=Carlos V - Carlos de Gante - Los viajes del emperador|url=https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/historia/CarlosV/1548.shtml|access-date=2022-12-31|website=www.cervantesvirtual.com}}
and
Maria of Austria

|align="center"|1 October 1548
Charles I and Prince Philip's absences.

|align="center"|12 July 1551
Prince Philip's arrival.

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|align="center"|Prince Philip

|align="center"|12 July 1551

|align="center"|July 1554

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|align="center"|Joanna of Austria, Princess Dowager of Portugal

|align="center"|July 1554
Charles I and Prince Philip's absences.

|align="center"|8 September 1559
King Philip II's arrival.
(Became monarch in 1556)

Reign of [[Philip III of Spain|Philip III]]

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|align="center"|{{ill|Fernando de Acevedo|es|Fernando de Acevedo}}

|align="center"|22 April 1619

|align="center"|4 December 1619

Reign of [[Charles II of Spain|Charles II]]

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|align="center"|Mariana of Austria

|align="center"|17 September 1665
Death of King Philip IV.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSF_IuTjZ2UC&pg=PA678|title=Coleccion de los tratados de paz, alianza, neutralidad, garantia ... hechos por los pueblos, reyes y principes de España con los pueblos, reyes, principes, republicas y demás potencias de Europa ...: desde antes del establecimiento de la monarchia gothica hasta el feliz reynado del rey N.S. D. Fernando VI|date=1751|publisher=por Antonio Marin, Juan de Zuñiga y la viuda de Peralta|language=es}}

|align="center"|6 November 1675
Charles II's majority.[http://www.boe.es/datos/imagenes/BOE/1700/045/A00180.tif Gaceta de Madrid, 9 de noviembre de 1700] {{in lang|es}}.

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|align="center"|Cardinal Luis Fernández de Portocarrero

|align="center"|29 October 1700{{Cite book|last1=Ubilla y Medina|first1=Antonio|url=http://archive.org/details/successiondeelre00ubil|title=Succession de el rey D. Phelipe V, nuestro Señor en la corona de España : diario de sus viages desde Versalles a Madrid, el que executó para su feliz casamiento, jornada a Napoles, a Milan, y a su exercito, successos de la campaña, y su buelta a Madrid|last2=Pallota|first2=Felipe|last3=Edelinck|first3=Gérard|last4=García Infanzon|first4=Juan|last5=Ardemans|first5=Teodoro|last6=Causé|first6=Lambrecht|last7=Berterham|first7=Jan Baptist|date=1704|publisher=En Madrid : Por Juan Garcia Infanzon ...|others=Getty Research Institute}}

|align="center"|1 November 1700
Death of King Charles II.

Reign of [[Philip V of Spain|Philip V]]

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|align="center"|1 November 1700

|align="center"|18 February 1701
King Philip V's arrival.

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|align="center"|Cardinal Luis Fernández de Portocarrero

|align="center"|1 September 1701[http://www.boe.es/datos/imagenes/BOE/1701/035/A00140.tif Gaceta de Madrid, 6 de septiembre de 1701] {{in lang|es}}.

|align="center"|17 January 1703[http://www.boe.es/datos/imagenes/BOE/1703/004/A00015.tif Gaceta de Madrid, 23 de enero de 1703] {{in lang|es}}

Reign of [[Charles III of Spain|Charles III]]

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|align="center"|Elisabeth Farnese

|align="center"|10 August 1759
Death of King Ferdinand VI.

|align="center"|9 December 1759
King Charles III's arrival.

First Reign of [[Ferdinand VII of Spain|Ferdinand VII]]

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|align="center"|Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain

|align="center"|10 April 1808

|align="center"|4 May 1808
Infante Antonio Pascual's departure to Bayonne.

French Invasion and Reign of [[Joseph Bonaparte]]

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|align="center"|Joachim Murat

|align="center"|4 May 1808[http://www.boe.es/datos/imagenes/BOE/1808/046/A00457.tif Gaceta de Madrid, 13 de mayo 1808] {{in lang|es}}

|align="center"|20 July 1808
King Joseph's arrival.


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|align="center"|Jean-de-Dieu Soult

|align="center"|1 July 1813
King Joseph's departure.{{Cite book|last=Lafuente|first=Modesto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O66u8GKSJbEC&pg=PA368|title=Historia general de España|date=1861|publisher=Establecimiento Tipográfico de Mellado|language=es}}

|align="center"|11 December 1813
Treaty of Valençay

Second Reign of Ferdinand VII

= [[Peninsular War]] =

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| align="center" rowspan="2" | José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca
(Acting)

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25 September 1808

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1 October 1808

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| align="center"| 30 December 1808

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| align="center" rowspan="2" | Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso y Guzmán, 15th Marquis of Astorga
(Acting)

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30 December 1808

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1 May 1809

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1 May 1809

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1 November 1809

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|align="center"|Juan Acisclo de Vera

|align="center"|1 November 1809

|align="center"|31 January 1810

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|align="center"|Francisco Javier Castaños

|align="center"|1 February 1810

|align="center"|29 May 1810

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|align="center"|Pedro de Quevedo y Quintano

|align="center"|29 May 1810

|align="center"|26 September 1810

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|align="center"|Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis

|align="center"|27 September 1810

|align="center"|28 October 1810

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|align="center"|Pedro Agar y Bustillo

|align="center"|28 October 1810

|align="center"|8 December 1810

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|align="center"|Joaquín Blake y Joyes

|align="center"|8 December 1810

|align="center"|8 April 1811

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|align="center"|Pedro Agar y Bustillo

|align="center"|8 April 1811

|align="center"|8 August 1811

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|align="center"|Gabriel de Císcar y Císcar

|align="center"|8 August de 1811

|align="center"|8 December de 1811

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|align="center"|Pedro Agar y Bustillo

|align="center"|8 December 1811

|align="center"|22 January 1812

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|align="center"|Joaquín de Mosquera y Figueroa

|align="center"|22 January 1812

|align="center"|15 June 1812

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|align="center"|Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado

|align="center"|15 June 1812

|align="center"|15 December 1812

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|align="center"|Juan María de Villavicencio

|align="center"|15 December 1812

|align="center"|8 March 1813

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8 March 1813

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22 March 1813

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| align="center"| 10 May 1814
King Ferdinand VII's arrival.

= [[Trienio Liberal|Liberal Triennium]] and [[Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis|Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis]] Intervention =

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|align="center"|Cayetano Valdés y Flores

|align="center"|11 June 1823
King Ferdinand VII prisoner of the Cortes.

|align="center"|15 June 1823

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|align="center"|Francisco de Eguía

|align="center"|9 April 1823

|align="center"|25 May 1823

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|align="center"|Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado

|align="center"|25 May 1823

|align="center"|1 October 1823
King Ferdinand VII's liberation.

Reign of [[Isabella II of Spain|Isabella II]]

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|align="center"|Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies

|align="center"|29 September 1833
Death of King Ferdinand VII.

|align="center"|12 October 1840
Queen Regent's deposition.

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|align="center"|Baldomero Espartero

|align="center"|12 October 1840

|align="center"|10 May 1841

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|align="center"|Baldomero Espartero

|align="center"|10 May 1841

|align="center"|23 July 1843
General Espartero's deposition and
Queen Isabella II's majority.

Interregnum and Reign of [[Amadeo I of Spain|Amadeo]]

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|align="center" rowspan="2"|Francisco Serrano y Domínguez

|align="center"|(President of the Provisional Government)
8 October 1868
Queen Isabella II's deposition.

|align="center"|25 February 1869

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25 February 1869

|align="center"|18 June 1869

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|align="center"|Francisco Serrano y Domínguez

|align="center"|18 June 1869

|align="center"|2 January 1871
King Amadeo's arrival.

Reign of [[Alfonso XII of Spain|Alfonso XII]]

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|align="center"|Antonio Cánovas del Castillo

|align="center"|31 December 1874
Bourbon dynasty restored.

|align="center"|14 January 1875
King Alfonso XII's arrival.

Reign of [[Alfonso XIII of Spain|Alfonso XIII]]

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|align="center"|Maria Christina of Austria
Death of King Alfonso XII.

|align="center"|26 November 1885

|align="center"|17 May 1902
King Alfonso XIII's majority.

[[Dictatorship of Francisco Franco]]

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|align="center"|Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain

|align="center"|26 July 1947
Restoration of the "Kingdom of Spain"

|align="center"|20 November 1975
Died

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|align="center"|Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel

|align="center"|20 November 1975
As President of the Regency Council after Franco's death.

|align="center"|22 November 1975
Juan Carlos became monarch.

=Acting regents=

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|align="center"|22 October 1949

|align="center"|27 October 1949

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|align="center" rowspan="2"|Juan Carlos, Prince of Spain

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19 July 1974

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2 September 1974

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|align="center"|20 November 1975
Death of Francisco Franco.

See also

Notes

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