Pedro Gómez Labrador

One standard Spanish history textbook condemns him for "[...] his mediocrity, his haughty character, and his total subordination to the whims of the king's inner circle, by which he achieved nothing favorable.

At the death of Pius VI, Labrador was named Minister Plenipotentiary to the Papal States, and later served at Florence, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Etruria.

The liberal deputies of the national assembly based in Cádiz (1810–1813) took him to be one of their own, and gave him the vital post of Minister of State, a decision they would quickly regret: "Labrador was dim, prolix, of pride and arrogance that trod the limits of fatuity, and of peculiar pedantry.

He assisted Ferdinand VII in abolishing the liberal constitution of 1812, and was awarded with the duty of representing Spain at the peace conferences of Paris and Vienna, with the full rank and title of Ambassador.

With the only European restoration of picayune Lucca as a Bourbon-Parma duchy to show for her efforts, and represented by a man overwhelmed with his charge ("I must have the face of a favorite aunt [for] everyone is coming to me with their troubles"[9]), Spain's status as a second-rate power with colonial independence movements overseas was confirmed.

Upon the death of King Ferdinand VII on September 29, 1833, he leaned towards the Infante Don Carlos, believing that the Monarch had betrayed the Crown by making a pact with the French in 1823.