Signed by sixty-nine deputies of the Cortes of Cádiz, the document was redacted by Mozo de Rosales.
[2] Together with Baron de Eroles and the Archbishop of Tarragona, Jaime Creus Martí, Mataflorida was a member of the Urgel Regency,[2] an interim government established by the Spanish absolutists in August 1822 (during the Liberal Triennium) based in Seo de Urgel, a fortress held by the Royalist forces.
Benito Pérez Galdós refers to Mataflorida on several occasions in his Episodios Nacionales, including in the following example: These were the Baron de Eroles and don Jaime Creux, Archbishop of Tarragona, both of them, just like Mataflorida, from the humblest of classes, brought out of obscurity by these revolutionary times, which wasn't really a very strong argument in favour of absolutism.
This fact, which had been observed since the previous century, was expressed by Louis XV, when he said that the nobility needed to be covered in manure in order to be made fertile.Of these three regents, the most likeable was Mataflorida, who was also the most learned; the most tolerant was Eroles, and the most evil and unpleasant, Don Jaime Creux.
(Pérez Galdós: Los Cien Mil Hijos de San Luis, 1877, p.