Don JOSE JOAQUIN de ITURBIDE Y ARREGUI, bapt in the parish church in Juan Evangelista, Peralta 6 Feb 1739 (son of Don JOSE de ITURBIDE Y ALVAREZ de EULATE, by his wife Doña MARIA JOSEFA de ARREGUI Y GASTELU), emigrated to Mexico 1766 and settled at Valladolid (now Morelia), designated PRINCE OF THE UNION (PRINCIPE 61 UNION) with the qualification of Highness (Alteza) by Decree of the Constituent Sovereign Congress of Mexico 22 June 1822. He was Rector de la Archicofradia Noble de los Caballeros de la Santa Veracruz, Grand Cross of the Order of Guadalupe, and Oficial Mayor de la Negocios Eclesiasticos. He m at Santa Clara los Cobres, Michoacan, Mexico 21 Nov 1772, Doña MARIA JOSEFA de ARAMBURU Y CARRILLO de FIGUEROA (b in the Bishopric of Michoacan …. 17..; d at Mexico City 3 Dec 1820; bur in the Panteon de Pablo), dau of Don SEBASTIAN de ARAMBURU Y URDIZIBAR, by his wife Doña NICOLASA MICAELA CARRILLO de FIGUEROA Y VILLASENOR, and d at …………… 19 Nov 1825, having had issue,

1. Don JOSE FRANCISCO, dsp.

2. Doña MARIA NICOLASA, who received the title of PRINCESS de ITURBIDE with the qualification of Highness by Decree of the Sovereign Congress 22 June 1822, b at ………… ……. 17..; dunm at Mexico City 4 Feb 1840. She was at one time courted by Santa Anna although he was very much her junior.

3 Doña JOSEFA, m at Valladolid de Michoacan 18 Sept 1797, Don JOSE ANTONIO SANCHEZ de MANZANERA Y PONCE de LEON, and had issue, 2 sons and 5 daus.

4. Don MARIANO, dsp.

5. Don AGUSTIN COSME DAMIAN, of whom presently,

The fifth and youngest son,

Don AGUSTIN COSME DAMIAN de ITURBIDE Y ARAMBURU, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry Regiment of Valladolid 16 Oct 1797, promoted Lieut 29 Oct 1806, Capt of Fusiliers 17 Nov 1810, Capt Regt of Tula, Brevet Lt-Col 6 June 1812, Supreme Commandant of the Army of the North in the Provinces of Guanaguato and Valladolid 1816, proclaimed the independence of Mexico from Spain Feb 1821, drew up a constitution known as the Plan of Iguala, entered Mexico City 27 Sept 1821, proclaimed “by Divine Providence and by the Congress of the Nation, the First Constitutional EMPEROR OF MEXICO” 19 May 1822 and assumed the style of AGUSTIN I, took the oath to observe the Constitution 21 May 1822, crowned with his wife at Mexico City Cathedral 21 July 1822, Sovereign Founder of the National Order of Our Lady of Guadalupe, abdicated as the result of disaffection 19 March 1823 and left the country, visited Italy and England, returned to Mexico in a vain attempt to regain the throne and was arrested and shot without trial; b at Valladolid 27 Sept 1783 (and baptised in the Cathedral there 1 Oct 1783), m there 27 Feb 1805, ANA MARIA JOSEFA RAMONA de HUARTE Y MUNIZ, crowned EMPRESS OF MEXICO 21 July 1822 (b at Valladolid 17 Jan 1786; d at Philadelphia, USA 21 March 1861; bur Roman Catholic Church of St John the Evangelist there), daughter of Don ISIDRO de HUARTE Y ARRIVILLAGA, Grand Cross of the Order of Guadalupe, by his 2nd wife Doña ANNA MANUELA MUNIZ Y SANCHEZ de TAGLE (of the family of the Marqueses de Altamira), and was shot at Padilla, Tamaulipas 19 July 1824 (bur first at Padilla, transferred to Mexico City Cathedral by order of the Mexican Congress 28 Oct 1838), having had issue,

1 Don AGUSTIN JERONIMO, PRINCE IMPERIAL with the qualification of Imperial Highness 1822-23, fought with Bolivar in Colombia in the war of independence there and was present at the Battle of Ayacucho, later served in the Mexican Legation in London and as a volunteer in the Pontifical Army, b at Valladolid 30 Sept 1807, educated Ampleforth, dunm at New York 11 Dec 1866 (bur Philadelphia). He left an illegitimate daughter by an unknown lady from Arequipa, Doña JESUSA DE ITURBIDE, b in Peru ca 1835/40, m Don NICOLAS FERNANDEZ de PIEROLA, Peruvian Minister of Finance 1869, defacto Head of State of Peru Dec 1879 March 1881, and President of Peru Sept 1895-Sept 1899 (b at Camana ……. 1839; d at …………. ……. 1913), and d at ………… ……. 1…, leaving issue,

(1) EVA MARIA FERNANDEZ de PIEROLA E ITURBIDE.

(2) AMADEO FERNANDEZ de PIEROLA E ITURBIDE, living 1937.

(3) ISAIAS FERNANDEZ de PIEROLA E ITURBIDE.

2 Doña SABINA, MEXICAN PRINCESS with the qualification of Highness 1822-23, b at ………… ……. 1809; dunm at Philadelphia 14 July 1871 (bur there).

3 Doña JUANA MARIA, MEXICAN PRINCESS with the qualification of Highness 1822-23, a novice in the Visitation Convent at Georgetown, DC, USA, professed a nun on her deathbed, taking the name of Sister Margarita of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, b at ………… ……. 1811; d at the Visitation Convent, Georgetown 2 Oct 1828 (bur there).

4 Doña JOSEFA, MEXICAN PRINCESS with the qualification of Highness 1822-23, granted the title of PRINCESS de ITURBIDE with the qualification of Highness by Emperor Maximilian 13 Sept 1865, Lady of the Order of San Carlos, b at Irapuato, Guanajuato 22 Dec 1814; dunm at the Hotel Comonfort, Mexico City 5 Dec 1891.

5 Don ANGEL, MEXICAN PRINCE with the qualification of Highness 1822-23, b at Queretaro 2 Oct 1816, m at Rosedale (now 3501 Newark Street, NW), Georgetown, DC, USA 9 June 1855, ALICE (ALICIA) GREEN (b at ………… ……. 18.., d at ………… 28 Jan 1892), daughter of JOHN GREEN, of Rosedale, by his wife NANCY, daughter of Major-General URIAH FORREST, by his wife REBECCA, daughter of GEORGE PLATER, sometime Governor of Maryland, and d at Mexico City 21 July 1872, leaving issue:

Don AGUSTIN, adopted by Emperor Maximilian and granted the title of PRINCE de ITURBIDE with the qualification of Highness 13 Sept 1865, served as an officer in the Mexican Army 1894, subsequently exiled for publishing a protest against the government of President Porfirio Diaz, later Professor of French and Spanish in Georgetown University, b at ………… 2 April 1863, educated Oscott College, Sutton Coldfield, England, and Georgetown University, m at St Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, DC, USA 5 July 1915, Mary Louise (b at Washington, DC 25 Sept 1872; d at ………… .. Sept 1967), daughter of Brigadier-General James Kearney, of Quality Hill, Georgetown, by his wife …………………….., and dsp at Washington, DC, USA 3 March 1925.

6 Doña MARIA-JESUS (later called ISIS), MEXICAN PRINCESS with the qualification of Highness 1822-23, b at Mexico City 21 Feb 1818; dunm at Philadelphia 10 July 1849 (bur there).

7 Doña MARIA DE LOS DOLORES, b at ………… .. …. 1819; d at Mexico City 10 July 1820 (bur Cemetery of San Lazaro, Mexico City).

8 Don SALVADOR, MEXICAN PRINCE with the qualification of Highness 1822-23, b at ………… .. …. 1820, m at ………… .. …. 1848, Doña ROSARIO de MARZAN Y GUISASOLA (b at ………… .. …. 18..; d at ………… .. March 1859), daughter of Don JOSE de MARZAN Y GARNASIN, by his wife Doña PETRONILA de GUISASOLA, and was drowned in a boating accident on the Rio Tepic 7 June 1856, leaving issue:

Don SALVADOR, adopted by Emperor Maximilian and granted the title of PRINCE de ITURBIDE with the qualification of Highness by Emperor Maximilian 13 Sept 1865, Grand Cross of the Order of Guadalupe, lived in Hungary and Venice and was a friend of Don Carlos (VII), Duke of Madrid, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne; b at Mexico City 18 Sept 1849, educated College of Ste Barbe, Paris, m at Mikosd, Hungary 21 June 1871, Baroness GIZELLA MARIA TEREZIA MIKOS de TARRODHÁZA (b at Mikosszéplak 1 Feb 1846; m 2ndly at London 4 Aug 1900, EMIL JENISON, COUNT von WALWORTH (who d at Nice 10 Jan 1910); d at Graz 1 April 1921), daughter of Baron EDUARD JOHANN NEPOMUK MIKOS de TARRODHÁZA, by his wife THERESE MARIA ANTONIA GLUDOVACZ, EDLE de PETÕHÁZ, and d at Ajaccio, Corsica 26 Feb 1895 (bur Cemetery of San Michele, Venice), having had issue:

(1) (Princess) Doña MARIA JOSEPHA SOPHIA de ITURBIDE, b at Mikosd 29 Feb 1872, m 1st at Beszterce 12 March 1908, Baron JOHANN NEPOMUK ADOLF FERDINAND JOSEF TUNKL von ASCHBRUNN und HOHENSTADT (b at Kõszeg, Hungary 12 July 1872; ka Onuth, Bukovina 10 May 1915), Captain 12th Imperial & Royal Lancers, son of Baron EDUARD FERDINAND TUNKL von ASCHBRUNN und HOHENSTADT, Colonel in Chief 11th Imperial & Royal Hussars, by his wife Countess ANNA WILHELMINA KUSTOSCH von ZUBRI und LIPKA. She m 2ndly at Beszterce 14 April 1923, CHARLES de CARRIERE (b at Paris 24 Nov 1875; d at Dévabánya, Roumania .. Nov 1949), son of CHARLES de CARRIERE, and d with him in an internment camp at Dévabánya, Roumania .. Nov 1949), leaving issue by her first marriage,

1a (Baroness) Doña MARIA ANNA WILHELMINA ADOLPHINA SOPHIA de TUNKL-YTURBIDE [name assumed at birth in compliance with the expressed wish of her maternal grandmother and confirmed by Royal Hungarian Ministry of the Interior No BM 140668/1909], b at Temesvár 4 Aug 1909, used the surname of YTURBIDE only and dunm at Tirgu Mures Roumania 1997

2a (Baroness) Doña MARIA GIZELLA JOSEPHA ERNA ISABELLA de TUNKL-YTURBIDE [name assumed at birth in compliance with the expressed wish of her maternal grandmother and confirmed by Royal Hungarian Ministry of the Interior No BM 154612/1912], b at Temesvár 2 Oct 1912, m 1st at Budapest 7 November 1938, IVO MIHAILIC (b at Zagreb ………. 1909; ka ……………1941) son of Ritter (Knight) MILIVOJ MIHAILIC, Colonel 76th Imperial & Royal Infantry regiment by his wife MARGARET JELACIC. She m 2ndly at Beszterce 8 June 1943, Count MARIA GUSTAV ADOLF EGON von GÖTZEN (b at Grusbach, Moravia 25 Sept 1904; d at Caracas, Venezuela 11 May 1956), son of Count HUBERT FRIEDRICH WILHELM von GÖTZEN, Major 9th Imperial and Royal Hussars and Imperial and Royal Chamberlain, by his wife Countess EMANUELA ANNA MARIA KAROLINE KHUEN von BELASI. She m 3rdly at Montevideo, Uruguay 15 Aug 1959, OTTAVIO STEFANO DELLA PORTA, banker and chartered accountant (b at Venice 14 Oct 1891; d at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 27 Jan 1981), and d at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 8 August 1999 having left issue by her second marriage,

1b (Count) Don MAXIMILIANO GUSTAV ALBRECHT RICHARD AGUSTIN de GÖTZEN – ITURBIDE [name borne with official permission of Royal Hungarian Ministry of the Interior No BM 557.114/1944], b at Beszterce 4 Sept 1944, m at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 22 Sept 1990, ANNA ROSEMARIA HELENA VON FRANCESCHI b North Rhine Westphalia, Germany 18 Oct 1966 and has issue,

1c (Count) Don FERNANDO LEOPOLD MAXIMILIANO GUSTAV SALVADOR de GÖTZEN-ITURBIDE, b North Rhine Westphalia, Germany 26 Aug 1992

2c (Countess) Doña ISABELLA EMANUELA CHARLOTTE MARIA HELENA de GÖTZEN – ITURBIDE born London, England 9 September 1997

2b (Countess) Doña EMANUELA (EMMA) HUBERTA JOHANNA MARIA GIZELLA de GOTZEN-ITURBIDE, b at Beszterce 12 Sept 1945, m at Perth, Western Australia 19 Oct 1968, (divorced 1988) PATRICK FRANCIS PHILIP MacAULAY (b at Bombay, India 20 July 1936), son of PHILIP MacAULAY, by his wife MARY O’CONNOR, and has issue,
1c NICHOLAS MacAULAY b. 1970
2c EDWARD MacAULAY b. 1973
3c AGUSTIN MacAULAY b. 1977
4c PATRICK MacAULAY b. 1979
5c PHILIP MacAULAY b. 1981

6c CAMILLA MacAULAY b. 1972

7c GIZELLA MacAULAY b. 1985

(2) (Princess) Doña MARIA GIZELLA ANNA de ITURBIDE, b at Mikosd 10 June 1874; d at Szombathely 14 Feb 1875.

(3) (Princess) Doña MARIA TEREZIA de ITURBIDE, b at Gyulafehérvár 26 Feb 1876, m at Beszterce ……. 1893, LAJOS ZOLTÁN LÉKAI TÖRÖK de ARANYOS-RÁKOS et KADICSFALVA (b at Székelyudvarhely ……. 1869; d as the result of a hunting accident at Pancsova ……. 1904), and dsp of cholera while working as a volunteer Red Cross nurse on the eastern front at Novodwor, Galicia 7 Aug 1915.

9 Don FELIPE ANDRES MARIA GUADALUPE, MEXICAN PRINCE with the qualification of Highness (from his birth) 1822-23, b at the Palacio Moncada, Mexico City 30 Nov 1822; d of typhoid in Matamoros .. …. 1853.
10 Don AGUSTIN COSME, b (posthumously) at New Orleans .. Oct 1824 (or .. Jan 1825 ?) ; dunm at Neuilly 9 May 1873 (bur Cemetery of Neuilly).

Copyright: the late David G. Williamson [Editor of Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage and formerly editor of Burke’s Peerage]