Agustín de Iturbide y Green

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English name = Agustín de Iturbide y Green


birth_date = April 2, 1863
birthplace = Mexico City, Mexico
death_date = March 3, 1925
deathplace = Washington DC, United States
regnal = Agustín III
title = Prince de Iturbide
throne = Mexico
pretend from = June 19, 1867 - March 3, 1925
year = 1867
king = Maximilian I
relationship = Adopted son
house = Iturbide
father = Ángel de Iturbide y Huarte
mother = Alice Green
spouse =
children =
predecessor = Maximilian I
successor = Princess Maria Josepha
footnotes =H.H. Prince Don Agustín de Iturbide y Green (April 2, 1863, Mexico City, Mexico – March 3, 1925, Washington, D.C.) was the grandson of Agustín de Iturbide, the first emperor of independent Mexico. He became the adopted son of Mexico's only other royal heads of state, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico and Empress Carlota of Mexico. After the death of Maximilian he became Head of the Imperial House of Mexico.

Family

Iturbide y Green was the son of Emperor Agustin I's second son H.H. Prince Don Ángel Maria de Iturbide y Huarte (October 2, 1816 – July 21, 1872) and his American wife Alice Green (b.ca 1836, d. 1892), granddaughter of US Congressman and Revolutionary War Gen. Uriah Forrest and great-granddaughter of George Plater, Governor of Maryland. Her older sister, Elizabeth Rousby Green, (married name Elizabeth Quesenberry) b. ca. 1825 became an interesting historical footnote when Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth arrived at her house after crossing the Potomac on his escape route. Ironically, had Booth managed to flee the country, his hope had been to seek asylum in Mexico.

Mexican heir

When Maximilian and Carlota ascended the throne of Mexico in 1863 with the support of the French troops of Napoleon III, the new monarchs invited the Iturbide family back to Mexico. As it became clear that Maximilian and Carlota could have no children together, they offered to adopt Iturbide y Green, which was agreed to with enthusiasm by his father and reluctance by his mother. They formally named Iturbide y Green their heir on September 13, 1865, with the title "His Highness, Prince de Iturbide".

Post monarchy

With the overthrow of the monarchy in 1867, his biological family took him first to England and then back to the United States. When he came of age Iturbide y Green renounced his claim to the throne and title and returned to Mexico. He then served as an officer in the Mexican army. After publishing articles critical of President Porfirio Díaz, he was forced into exile and returned to Georgetown where he taught as a professor of Spanish and French languages at Georgetown University for many years.

Agustín de Iturbide y Green died in Washington, D.C., and was buried at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

External links

* [http://www.casaimperial.org/ Imperial House of Mexico]
* [http://www.cmmayo.com/last-prince-iturbide-family-tree-circa-1865.html Agustin de Iturbide y Green's Family Tree]