Diego Vicente Cañas Portocarrero, 7th Duque del Parque

[4] In October 1809, the British ambassador to Spain, Richard Wellesley, tried to get Martín de Garay, secretary to the Supreme Central Junta and the person in charge of that body's international relations, to dismiss the Duke.

[2] When, in February 1810, the command of the Army of the Left was returned to Marquis of La Romana, Del Parque was appointed governor of the Canary Islands.

[3] He went on to become, in 1822, a deputy for Valladolid,[3] and, very briefly, president of Spain's Congreso de los Diputados (November 1822 to December 1822).

[1] Following the invasion of the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" (1823), a French army mobilized by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium, the Duke went with the Cortes and the government to Seville and, from there, on to Cá­diz.

[3] As soon as he had regained the throne, Fernando VII ordered that the Duke be arrested and detained in a public prison.