Karl (Count de Montemoline)

Carlos was born on January 31, 1818 at the Royal Palace in Madrid . The eldest son of the infantry Don Carlos Maria Isidro (1788–1855), the first Carlist contender for the Spanish throne (1833–1845), and his first wife, the infante Maria Francisco of Portugal (1800–1834).

During the First Carlist War ( 1833 - 1839 ), Carlos accompanied his father, Don Carlos the Elder, during the hostilities. After the defeat of the Carlists, father and son fled to France .

In 1835, the Carlists proclaimed Carlos, the eldest son of Don Carlos the Elder, Prince of Asturias, that is, the heir to the Spanish throne.

On May 18, 1845, after the voluntary abdication of his father, Don Carlos the Elder, of the rights to the Spanish throne, Carlos became the second Carlist candidate for the royal throne (1845-1861).

At the end of 1846, Don Carlos Louis published a manifesto in which he called on his supporters for armed struggle. The Second Carlist War (1846-1849) began in Spain.

In March 1860, Infant Carlos with his younger brother Fernando landed in the Balearic Islands, where the Spanish captain Jaime Ortega came over to his side. With a 4,000-strong military detachment, they sailed to the shores of Catalonia, hoping to raise a new Carlist uprising there. On April 1, the rebels landed on the shore and moved to the area of ​​the city of San Carlos de la Rapita . In the Ampost area, rebel soldiers refused to support Don Carlos. The applicant himself and his brother Fernando fled to Uldekona . On April 21, the brothers were detained by the Spanish authorities and taken to Tortosa . On April 23, under pressure, Carlos was forced to abandon his claims to the Spanish throne, like his younger brother Fernando.

After his release, Infant Carlos Luis left Spain and announced in Trieste on June 15, 1860 that his rejection of claims to the Spanish throne was invalid and was made under pressure. But on June 2 of that year, his younger brother Juan , Count de Montison, proclaimed himself the new contender for the royal throne of Spain under the name of Juan III.

On January 13, 1861, Carlos Louis died in Trieste, probably from typhus. In the same month, his younger brother Fernando ( January 2 ) and his wife Carolina ( January 14 ) suddenly died.

On July 10, 1850, Carlos married his cousin Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Sicily (November 29, 1820 - January 14, 1861 ), the fifth daughter of Francis I (1777-1830), King of the Two Sicilies (1825-1830), and his second wife Maria Isabella Spanish (1789-1848). The couple did not have children.

• Walther L. Bernecker, Horst Pietschmann: Geschichte Spaniens. Von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. 4. Auflage. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018766-X .