Manuel de Roda

Manuel de Roda y Arrieta, (Zaragoza, 1706 - 30 August 1782, aged 75), Former Ambassador in Rome under King Fernando VI of Spain, (September 23, 1713 – August 10, 1759), King of Spain from 1746 until his death, and nominated by King Carlos III of Spain, (January 20, 1716 – December 14, 1788), step brother of Fernando VI and formerly King of Naples and Sicily till the death of his brother Fernando, Ministry of "Grace and Justice", which he held for 17 years till his death at the Royal Site of San Ildefonso, Segovia. There, he was buried at the "Christ Chapel" of this Summer Royal Palace deciding the King to pass his title of Marqués de Roda to Miguel Joaquin Lorieri, married to his niece Francisca de Alpuente y Roda.

He participated actively in the gestions to create the Royal Spanish Academy of History (1735 - 1738).

He was instrumental in the expulsion of the Jesuits as from 1767, from Spain and Spanish Controlled territories abroad in Europe, America and the Philippine Islands in the East World , as the Portuguese did also in all their domains earlier (circa 1759), under Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Count of Oeiras, 1st Marquis of Pombal, (13 May 1699 – 15 May 1782, aged 83), followed by Spanish, French and many Italian territories during the period 1767 - 1769 . This religious Roman Catholic Order, would be hounded under European pressures around the aging Roman Pope Clement XIII, (Venice, March 7, 1693 – February 2, 1769 in Rome), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, who was Pope from 16 July 1758 to 2 February 1769.

The Society of Jesus as Institution would be banned on July 21, 1773 by the Pope Clement XIV, (31 October 1705 – 22 September 1774), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, who was Pope from 1769 to 1774.

The banning brief "Dominus ac Redemptor" appeared at that date, being suppressed thus the Society of Jesus, by the Roman Pope Clement XIV. Russia, Prussia and Poland (then absorbed by Russia) denying papal catholic authority (and Bourbon's influence) in their kingdom forbade the promulgation of the brief and ordered the Jesuits to carry on their educational activities wherever they were^[1].

Footnotes

1. ^ Choiseul, the architect of the suppression in France received a letter form Manuel de Roda, his counterpart in Spain: "We have killed the Son. Now nothing remains for us to do except carry out a like action against the mother, our Holy Roman Church" (in W.O'Malley, the Fifth week, Chicago, 1976, p.60)

Some bibliography and internet links

• RAFAEL OLAECHEA, "Las relaciones hispano-romanas en la segunda mitad del XVIII",(in Spanish), Institución Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza, (1999), ISBN 84-7820-534-9

• ISIDORO PINEDO IPARRAGUIRRE , "Manuel de Roda y Arrieta, ministro de Carlos III", in Letras de Deusto, ISSN 0210-3516, Vol. 12, Nº 23, (1982) , pags. 97-110.

• JESUS PRADELLS NADAL , "Política, libros y polémicas culturales en la correspondencia extraoficial de Ignacio de Heredia (y Alamán) con Manuel de Roda (1773-1781)", Revista de historia moderna, N. 18 (1999-2000). ISSN 0212-5862, pp. 125-222

http://hdl.handle.net/10045/4749

Refined extract by A.E. on this net link: Correspondence with Minister of Justice de Roda from Ignacio de Heredia, (Spanish Embassy in Paris, as Secretary of the Embassador Count of Aranda),Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Jiménez de Urrea, 10th Count of Aranda (Siétamo, Huesca, 1718- Épila, Saragossa 1798), dealing with Spanish Literature, the law suits against Pablo de Olavide y Jáuregui, (Lima, Peru, 1725 January 25 – Baeza, Spain, 1803 February 25), the comments on the Spanish defeat of 1775 trying to conquer the African city of Alger, and the purchasing orders for Paris Librarians to enhance the magnificent library of de Roda, today conserved and visited by prestigious hispanists in the Real Seminario de San Carlos de Zaragoza.

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Name	De Roda, Manuel
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Date of birth	1706
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Date of death	30 August 1782
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