José Selva Mergelina

Spanish politician In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Selva y Mergelina and the second or maternal family name is Mergelina y Llorens.

The Most IllustriousThe Marquess of Villores

Born	José Selva Mergelina 1884 (1884) Villena, Spain
Died	1932 (aged 47–48) Valencia, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	landowner
Known for	politician
Political party	Comunión Tradicionalista (also known as Comunión Legitimista and Comunión Católico-Monárquíca)
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José María de Selva y Mergelina Mergelina y Llorens, 5th Marquess of Villores (1884–1932) was a Spanish Carlist politician.

Family and youth

José María de Selva y Mergelina Mergelina y Llorens was a descendant of two Levantine landowner families of Selva and Mergelina. Both have been dominant in the Alicantine town of Villena and inter-married a few times over the centuries. His ancestors and relatives can be traced back to the 16th century, some of them notable figures in Spanish history. His paternal grandfather Rafael Selva López de Oliver (1820-1878) served as alcalde of the town. The family supported the Carlists since the First Carlist War; José's father, Enrique Selva Mergelina López de Oliver y Selva (1852-1923), was in the late 19th century a vice-president of the Valencian Carlist Junta Provincial. José's mother, María de la Trinidad Mergelina Llorens (1851-1924), was cousin of the Carlist Valencian leader Joaquín Lloréns Fernández and related to a number of noble families.

Like his 6 siblings José María was brought up in a fervently Catholic ambience. Following initial home schooling, as an older child he frequented Colegio de San José, a prestigious Valencian institute established in 1870 by Agustin Cabré and run by the Jesuits; he completed the teenage education there in 1900. Selva continued his scholarship at Universidad de Valencia to study law, philosophy and letters, having graduated in 1905.

José Selva married María Josefa Salvador y Núñez Robres (1909), descendant of an aristocratic Valencian family holding a number of estates across Levante and daughter of José Salvador de la Figuera Barroso de Frías y Mezquita, 4th marquis of Villores. The couple had 4 children, Enrique (1910), José Maria (1911), María Dolores (1913) and Rafael (1914). Following the premature death of his wife in 1916, in 1918 Selva married her older sister, María Vicenta Salvador y Núñez Robres. Since her father had no male descendants, she had arranged to inherit the marquesado; following the marriage, José Selva was also entitled to the honour as marqués consorte. His second marriage produced no children. The family lived in their rural Xàtiva estate.

Villores' younger brother, Juan Selva Mergelina, who was also a Carlist activist, served in the Spanish army; he commenced military service as segundo teniente of infantry in Mallorca in 1910, to be soon promoted to teniente primero and to pass to reserva territorial de Canarias. He resumed military service in Spanish Morocco during a rather calm period of the Rif War, assigned to the Tetuán regiment. In 1914, following meritorious service, Juan Selva was nominated infantry captain. His final rank was this of a Commandant. Arrested in the aftermath of the failed Sanjurjo coup d'état, he was later detained by the Republicans during the Civil War; he survived the incarceration to be nominated civil governor of Tarragona during early Francoism and to become member of the Falangist Consejo Nacional in 1943; their sister Dolores was active in the Carlist relief organization, Socorro Blanco. Villores’ oldest son, Enrique Selva Salvador, became the next Marqués de Villores and was an active Carlist during the Republic already; he later lobbied for the Traditionalist cause in the Franco years and became president of the Carlist circulo in Valencia.

Early public activity

José Selva commenced his public activity at the university, getting engaged in the very active Valencian branch of Liga Católica. He took part in local elections, running on a broad monarchist ticket, and was elected to Valencia city council. He later served in the Valencian regional government as Deputy mayor.

Having inherited a fundamentally Catholic and ultraconservative outlook, Selva entered the structures of the local Carlist organization quite early. With his father vicepresident of the Junta Provincial and his maternal uncle one of the national Carlist leaders, Selva soon grew in the Levantine party structures. He became the young lieutenant of Manuel Simó Marín, jefe of the Valencian Jaimismo. In 1913 he was already Presidente del Círculo Jaimista, representing the party on regional political stage. As a rising star of the movement he took part in national Traditionalist gatherings in Bordeaux and Lourdes of the 1910s, where he was personally introduced to the claimant, Don Jaime. At that time Carlism, already increasingly marginalized in Spanish politics, was also paralysed by conflict between the Carlist king and the top Carlist ideologue, Juan Vázquez de Mella. When de Mella was expelled in 1919 and left to build his own branch of Traditionalism, many party leaders, regional jefes (including Simó Marín in Valencia) and otherwise distinguished figures decided to join the secessionists; Don Jaime was left with very few recognized personalities by his side. Impressed by Selva, who since 1918 appeared as marqués de Villores, the Carlist king entrusted him with leadership and re-organisation of the Valencian Carlism.

The 34-year-old commenced his duties enthusiastically; he toured the region reconstructing the circulos and launched a new regional weekly, El Tradicionalista; since during his youth he demonstrated a penchant for letters he also contributed as an author. His three years of work were appreciated when in late 1921, following transitional leadership tenures of Pascual Comín Moya and Luis Hernando de Larramendi, Don Jaime had to choose his new political representative. Apart from few senile but still loyal leaders there were many potential candidates among politicians from the older or younger generation, who had already served a few terms either in the Cortes or in the Senate. However, for reasons which are not entirely clear, the claimant opted for Villores; nominated secretario general politico, he became the youngest Carlist political leader ever.

Jefe

The most immediate task faced by de Villores was reconstruction and consolidation of the movement, shattered by defections to the Mellistas. Trying to rebuild local structures of the party, at that time also known as Comunión Legitimista, he shuttled across the country promoting new local and regional jefes. However, at the beginning of his tenure he suffered a heavy blow by failing to prevent the closure of El Correo Español. The daily, established back in 1888, was a semi-official and most effective Carlist public tribune, its editorial board decimated during the Mellist crisis. The new Carlist leader did not manage to sustain the ailing newspaper, which closed in 1922. Public accusations continued to circulate and Villores failed to set a new press tribune; the mainstream Carlism had to do with no nationwide newspaper until 1932.

In terms of an overall political strategy Villores followed the course set by Jaime III: abandoning grand designs, he focused on grassroots work. Jaimismo was to assume a definitely regional and foral shape. Some scholars refer to this approach as a new Carlist policy, based on federalist program merged with the idea of social and economic justice. Possibly as part of this strategy in 1923 for the first time in the 20th century the Carlists abstained from racing to the Cortes; the official reason quoted was disillusionment with “farsa parlamentaria”.

The Carlists received the Primo de Rivera dictatorship warmly, cheerful about the fall of corrupted democracy and considering the coup to be a step towards traditionalist monarchy. De Villores, in line with instructions from Don Jaime who ordered cautious co-operation with the regime, recommended entering the primoderiverista Somatén militia and joined the formation himself, shifting focus away from the Carlist own paramilitary, Requeté. In 1925 the claimant withdrew his support, circumspect as it was, marking the beginning of the Carlist opposition policy. Executing the now reversed strategy, Villores kept the party away from Unión Patriótica and expulsed those who accepted invitation to Asamblea Nacional Consultiva; he failed to prevent further defections, though he managed to avert spontaneous insurgency attempts.

The political bewilderment of Dictablanda seemed to offer new opportunities for an increasingly marginalized Carlism and there are some indications that the party considered taking part in “controlled” elections, planned (and eventually abandoned) by general Berenguer. Villores declared himself leaning towards a more active policy and seemed supportive of a broad Catholic coalition in defense of the monarchy, though he challenged the primate, cardinal Segura, and was firm to underline that monarchism could not amount to support of the liberal Alfonsine system.

Final months of leadership

The final period of de Villores’ leadership term was even more turbulent than the initial one, marked by advent of the Republic and death of Jaime III. Initially de Villores was disoriented like most Carlists were: delighted to see the loathed Alfonsist monarchy toppled, but detesting the republican democracy even more. He followed the initial conciliatory manifesto of the claimant, who ordered his followers to assist the provisional government in maintaining order and defending Catholic sites until a genuine national assembly is elected. After the boycotted elections of 1923 Villores was finally able to lead the Carlist drive for the Cortes, but the actual campaign seemed rather disorganised. The outcome was 5 deputies, the performance worse than the worst results achieved during the Restauración. For Villores personally the campaign took a deeply humiliating turn; competing in the urban Valencian district he was trashed by leading candidates and recorded a disastrous result.

Contempt for militantly secular Republic drew three competitive branches of Carlism closer; Villores seemed to support consolidation, as in June 1931 he took part in massive public gatherings calling for unity. The cause was facilitated by unexpected death of Jaime III and assumption of the Carlist claim by Don Alfonso Carlos in October. Villores represented the mainstream Carlism in re-unification negotiations, which in early 1932 merged the Integristas, the Mellistas and the Jaimistas in the Comunión Tradicionalista, with de Villores agreed as its leader.

Talks with the Alfonsists proved to be definitely more difficult. Though the deposed Alfonso XIII and Jaime III (represented not by Villores, but by José María Gomez de Pujadas) seemed to agree a vague dynastical compromise, its version edited by de Villores was rejected by the Alfonsinos. Another royal agreement, known as "pacto de Territet", was greeted with ice-cold welcome among the Carlists. By that time de Villores, for months suffering from deteriorating health, was already unable to take part in the debate. His funeral in May 1932 proved to be another opportunity for public display of rapidly swelling Carlist zeal across a few cities in Spain.

Reception and legacy

In historiography the figure of Marquess de Villores does not generate major controversies. He earned no monography so far – be it either a major work or a minor article – and is treated marginally even in works dedicated to history of Traditionalism. Though most scholars concede that 1920s produced the most dramatic decline of Carlism since its birth, they do not necessarily agree whether Villores could have prevented it. Some (Clemente) consider him a good leader who instead of internal power struggle brought stability and consolidated the party. Some (Blinkhorn) call his leadership “flaccid” suggesting that he lacked the vision and the energy. Both seem to agree that he was executing the policy engineered by Don Jaime rather than drafting designs on his own.

There are streets commemorating “Marqués de Villores” in many Spanish villages and cities (including his native Villena), but none of them indicates which marquis in sequence is meant. A few buildings in the Valencia region are advertised as related to de Villores family; the building where José Selva was born and raised serves as host to an unrelated Museo Festero. A Carlist circulo of Albacete is named after Marqués de Villores. The marquesado itself is still functional.

Footnotes

La casa de los Selva, Villena cuéntame available here
Joaquín de Mergelina Selva was a Spanish naval officer who took part in the battle of Trafalgar, see Antonio de la Vega, Joaquín de Mergelina Selva, un marino desconocido, Revista de Historia Naval 7 (1989)/27, pp. 19-32, available here Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
see geneanet service here
1954: dońa Virtudes Selva y Mergelina cumple cien años de edad, Villena cuéntame here states that Rafael Selva was alcalde of Villena during the rule of Fernando VII, which seems unlikely given he was born in 1820
See de la Vega (1988), p. 31
geneanet; the obituary in La Epoca 22.03.23, available here, also a blog here
El Cabecilla 08.02.90, p. 3, see here
geneanet
Trinidad Mergelina Llorens was a daughter of Trinidad Mergelina y Cerver and Juana Llorens Bayer; the latter was a daughter of Joaquin Llorens Chiva and sister of José Llorens Bayer, who was in turn the father of Joaquin Llorens Fernandez
See Rafael Bernabeu Galbis, Apéndice documental, Los escudos nobiliarios de Ontinyent, available here
the only source which gives his daily date of birth claims he was born in 1884, see geneanet here; other sources claim he was born in 1885, see Francisco Javier Paniagua Fuentes, José Antonio Piqueras Arenas (eds.), Diccionario biográfico de políticos valencianos, 1810-2003, Valencia 2003, ISBN 847822386X, 9788478223862, p. 520, or Federico Martínez Roda, Valencia y las Valencias: su historia contemporánea (1800-1975), Madrid 1998, ISBN 8486792894, p. 190
El Colegio de los padres Jesuitas, Asociación Antiguos Alumnos Jesuitas – Valencia, available here Archived 2014-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
see Buscador de Alumnos Asociación Antiguos Alumnos Jesuitas – Valencia available here Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
Fuentes, Piqueras 2003, p. 520 claim that he studied "Derecho y Filosofia y Letras"; Germán Perales Birlaga, El estudiante liberal. Sociología y vida de la comunidad escolar universitaria de Valencia 1875-1939, Madrid 2009, ISBN 9788498947014, p. 291 claims that Selva was "alumno de derecho y filosofía". Probably he studied at two faculties, Derecho and Filosofia y Letras
Perales 2009, p. 291
ABC 10.05.09, available here
See for instance José Vaquer Roca, La Torre del Palomar, Antropologia Sant Mateu, available here Archived 2014-12-09 at the Wayback Machine, or Historia del Pueblo, at the Villores web page, here Archived 2015-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
There is no clear description of marquesado de Villores available, some of the web accounts are unclear, incomplete or contradictory. One of them is here, the most reliable version seems to be José Miguel Giménez Guarinos, Marquesado de Villores, Un paseo por Vinalesa, Valencia 2011, ISBN 9788461489435, pp. 157-159, available here
"Diego de SELVA - Geneanet".
See for instance La Epoca 08.07.1918 available here or La Nacion 09.07.1918 available here
geneanet
Jose Salvador de la Figuera Barroso de Frias y Mezquita, 4th Marqués de Villores, died in 1912
Boletín Oficial. Somatén Nacional de la 3. Region, 10/1924, available here, p. 2
Heraldo Militar 21.03.10, available here
La Correspondencia Militar 18.07.10, available here
La Correspondencia Militar 26.11.10, see here
Diario Official del Ministerio de la Guerra 29.12,14, see here
La Correspondencia Militar 13.12.27, see here
El Sol 28.09.1932, available here
Pepe Romero, Extracto de las memorias de Guerra de Miguel Vergara Gimeno, Miguel Peñarrocha Taroncher y Miguel Asensio Martínez Requetés voluntarios en el Tercio, La Guerra Civil en Llíria, at here
ABC 21.10.41 at here, also Abanderats i abanderades de la nostra historia available here Archived 2014-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
1943: homenaje Chapí XXXIV Aniversario, Villena cuéntame available here, see also Indice Histórico de Diputados here
Pepe Romero 2007
following the 1952 death of his aunt and the second wife of his father, María Vicenta Salvador y Núñez Robres
Joaquín Monserrat Cavaller, Joaquín Bau Nolla y la Restauración de la Monarquía, Madrid 2001, ISBN 8487863949, p. 83
Manuel Martorell Pérez, La continuidad ideológica del carlismo tras la Guerra Civil , Valencia 2009, p. 338
Celebración del 50 aniversario del círculo, Portal Avant!, available here Archived 2016-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
see José Vicente Castillo García, La política de los camaleones: Los conservadores valencianos durante la Restauración (1875-1923), Valencia 2002, ISBN 8437053730, 9788437053738, Francesc-Andreu Martínez Gallego, Manuel Chust Calero, Eugenio Hernández Gascón (eds.), Valencia, 1900: movimientos sociales y conflictos políticos durante la guerra de Marruecos, 1906-1914, Valencia 2001, ISBN 8480213485, 9788480213486
Fuentes, Piqueras 2003, p. 520
Oro de Ley 25.03.17 see here, Oro de Ley 01.04.17, see here
El Siglo Futuro 11.04.13, see here
Fuentes, Piqueras 2003, p. 520
Francisco Martín Melgar (Conde de Melgar), Joaquín Lloréns Fernández, Tomás Domínguez Romera (Conde de Rodezno) and Miguel Junyent i Rovira were probably the most experienced and distinguished loyalists
Fuentes, Piqueras 2003, p. 520. Since Garcia Guijarro joined the Mellistas the potential counter-candidate for Valencian leadership was Narciso Batlle y Baro, already 4 times elected to the Cortes. However, he swayed towards independent regionalism
Giménez Guarinos 2011, p. 159. The weekly is described as “minor” though still mentioned as part of the national Carlist press network by Eduardo González Calleja, La prensa carlista y falangista durante la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil (1931-1937), El Argonauta español 9 (2012), p. 5; for a sample from mid-1920s see here
as a student he wrote poems, see Perales 2009, p. 291
under the pen-name of El Ermitańo, see Giménez Guarinos 2011, p. 159
like Francisco Martín Melgar, marquis of Tamarit, Cesáreo Sanz Escartín or Joaquín Llorens Fernandez
Don Jaime's first choice was Blas Morte, a 70-year-old local Navarrese politician
like Esteban Bilbao (4 terms), Lluís Argemí i de Martí (2 terms as senator), Pedro Llosas Badía (4 terms), Joaquin Baleztena (3 terms), Tomás Domínguez Arévalo (2 terms), Bartomeu Trías i Comas (2 terms as deputy and 2 as senator) or Miquel Junyent i Rovira (1 term as deputy and 1 term as senator); except Junyent (born 1871) all of them were in their late 30s or 40s
none of the studies consulted offers anything bordering an attempt to explain the logic behind the nomination of Villores. The closest is José Carlos Clemente Muñoz, El carlismo en el novecientos español (1876-1936), Madrid 1999, ISBN 8483741539, 9788483741535, p. 71, who seems to suggests that Villores, totally loyal to Don Jaime, ensured unity and cohesion, with focus on grass-root work as opposed to previous, allegedly pompous grand designs
Josep Carles Clemente Muñoz, Breve historia de las guerras carlistas, Madrid 2011, ISBN 8499671713, 9788499671710, p. 310
when nominated, Nocedal was 58 (in 1879), Cerralbo 45 (1890), Barrio 55 (1899), Feliu 66 (1909), Sanz Escartin 74 (1918), Comín 61 (1919), Larramendi 38 (1919), Villores 38 (1921), Rodezno 50 (1932), Fal 40 (1934), Valiente 55 (1955) and Carlos Hugo 38 (1968), Javier Garisoain 48 (2018), Telmo Aldaz 50 (2020)
Jacek Bartyzel, Karlizm, haggard website here Archived 2014-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
its editor-in-chief, Miguel Fernández Peñaflor, joined the Mellistas and left the editorial board in 1919, see Agustín Fernández Escudero, El marqués de Cerralbo (1845-1922): biografía politica , Madrid 2012, p. 471
Agustín Fernández Escudero, El XVII marqués de Cerralbo (1845-1922). Primera parte de la historia de un noble carlista, desde 1869 hasta 1900, Ab Initio: Revista digital para estudiantes de Historia, 2/2011, ISSN 2172-671X, p. 139
compare a letter from the former El Correo Espańol manager, Gustavo Sánchez Márquez, published in ABC of 04.12.23, see here; on Sánchez and his increasingly hostile stance towards Jaime III see also Fernández Escudero 2012, pp. 465 onwards and 500 onwards, see also Sánchez obituary in ABC 02.01.63, see here
the mainstream Carlist dailies with most prestigious standing left were the Pamplona-based El Pensamiento Navarro and the Barcelona-based El Correo Catalan, both limited in circulation to the Vascongadas and Catalonia. Carlism regained its nationwide newspaper in 1932, when the re-united Integristas brought El Siglo Futuro with them
Clemente 1999, p. 71
Clemente 1999, p. 179. The author, a historian of clear leftist leaning who considers himself a Carlist, is keen to prove that under de Villores Carlism returned to its popular roots and abandoned the reactionary politics made by those (aristocrats, religious fundamentalists, conservatives) who infiltrated into the movement. See for instance his Historia del Carlismo Contemporaneo 1935-1972, Barcelona 1977, ISBN 8425307597, 8425307600, pp. 7-24, also his Seis estudios sobre el carlismo, Madrid 1999, ISBN 8483741520, 9788483741528, pp. 9-17, Los días fugaces. El Carlismo. De las guerras civiles a la transición democratica, Cuenca 2013, ISBN 9788495414243, pp. 26-28
the last boycott took place in 1899, when the Carlists considered another insurgency
ABC 13.03.23; the claimant allowed only individual candidatures, noting that „futuras Cortes habrá Jaimistas diputados, pero no una minoria jaimista”, see here. Eventually, there were 4 Jaimist deputies elected
Martin Blinkhorn,Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931-1939, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 9780521207294, 9780521086349, pp. 39-40
ABC 04.10.23; Don Jaime wrote to de Villores that “movimiento que, en definitiva, no significa otra cosa en sus propósitos iniciales que un acercamiento a nuestras doctrinas” is of “espirtu netamente Tradicionalista”, see here
Julio Prada Rodríguez, El Fenix que siempre renace. El carlismo ourensano (1894-1936), Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Series V, Historía Contemporánea 17 (2005), p. 125
as leader of the militia in the county he resided in, Boletín Oficial. Somatén Nacional de la 3. Region, 10/1924, see here, p. 2
though in the last years of Restauración de Villores tried to revitalise Requeté, during the dictatorship many of its militants fled to Somatén, see Julio Aróstegui, Combatientes Requetés en la Guerra Civil Española (1936–1939), Madrid 2013, ISBN 9788499709758, pp. 68-69
Jordi Canal i Morell, Banderas blancas, boinas rojas: una historia política del carlismo, 1876-1939, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 8496467341, 9788496467347, p. 41
the claimant explicitly barred his followers from entering UP in 1925, compare El Eco de Gerona 05.12.25, available here
this, for instance, was the case of Esteban Bilbao
e.g. this of Joaquin Bau and other "jefes naturales", Josep Carles Clemente Muñoz, Raros, heterodoxos, disidentes y viñetas del Carlismo, Madrid 1995, ISBN 842450707X, 9788424507077, p. 191
like this in Seo de Urgel in 1928, Clemente 1995, p. 191, on other plans of terrorist actions against the dictatorship see also Clemente 1999, pp. 73-74
Alberto Garcia Umbon, Las proyectadas elecciones del general Berenguer en Navarra (1930), Cuadernos de Sección Historia y Geografía, 10 (1988), pp. 213-219
Segura stressed an “obligación de participar en la res publicae, los católicos podían militar en los partidos existents o fundar otros confesionales, siempre que no fuesen antidinásticos”, to which Villores replied in private letter that “debe haber sido una mala interpretación del corrector de pruebas, no el pensamiento de Va Emma Rdvma, de quien me costa, sois un antiliberal convencido, y por consecuencia, incapaz de sostener esa tesis”. Quoted after Santiago Martinez Sanches, El Cardieal Pedro Segura y Saenz (1880-1957) , Pamplona 2002, pp. 149-151
Blinkhorn 2008, p. 41
Antonio Manuel Moral Roncal, 1868 en la memoria carlista de 1931: dos revoluciones anticlericales y un paralelo, Hispania Sacra, 59/119 (2007), p. 342
in some electoral districts the Carlists formed different alliances, in some they opted for stand-alone campaign; it looks that the decision was taken by regional Carlist leaders, see Blinkhorn 2008, pp. 51-57
Beunza (Navarre), Oreja (Vizcay), Oriol (Alava), Rodezno (Navarre) and Urquijo (Gipuzkoa), Blinkhorn 2008, p. 56
when Carlists took part as an organised force, compare here
it happened that Carlist political leaders competed in elections (Barrio in 1901, 1903, 1905 and 1907, Feliú in 1910, Larramendi in 1920, Domínguez Arévalo in 1933) and some of them has even lost (Barrio in 1903, Larramendi in 1920), but the only comparably disastrous result was this achieved by Carlos Hugo in the 1979 elections, see Jeremy MacClancy, The Decline of Carlism, Reno 2000, ISBN 0874173442, pp. 194-198
the front-runners like Lerroux or Azaña gained 40 times more votes than Villores, who was beaten even by the former fellow Valencian Carlist, Garcia Guijarro, see ABC 30.06.31, available here. This showing reflects marginal position of Villores within the Valencian Right; he is not even mentioned in Rafaell Valls, Las aportaciones del carlismo valenciano a la creación de una nueva derecha movilizadora en los anos treinta, Ayer 38 (2000), ISBN 8495379147, pp. 137-154
e.g. in Pamplona in June 1931, see Moral Roncal 2007, p. 355
Villores established good relations with the new Carlist king. Confirmed as the political leader, he even wrote a prologue to Alfonso Carlos’ recollections, see here Archived 2014-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
E.g. with the Integrista leader, Juan Olazábal; see interview with Manuel Fal Conde by José Carlos Clemente Muñoz in Tiempo de historia 39/4 (1978), pp. 13-23, referred after here
In October 1931 renamed to Comunión Católica Monárquica, Jacek Bartyzel, Karlizm, metapedia, see here Archived 2014-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
Blinkhorn 2008, p. 73. Some authors claim that in June 1932 Alfonso Carlos put de Villores at the top of the newly established Junta Suprema del Carlismo, see José Carlos Clemente Muñoz, El carlismo en su prensa, 1931-1972, Madrid 1999, ISBN 8424508157, 9788424508159, p. 67; at that time Villores was already defunct
Eduardo Gonzales Calleja, El ex-Rey, in: Javier Moreno Luzón (ed.), Alfonso XIII: un político en el trono, Barcelona 2003, ISBN 8495379597, 9788495379597, p. 415-416
Fermín Pérez-Nievas Borderas, Contra viento y marea, Pamplona 1999, ISBN 8460589323, pp. 96-99
Gonzales Calleja 2003, p. 415-416
some scholars claim that it was the Carlist leaders who balked at the agreement, see Gonzales Calleja 2003, p. 417, the others point to opposition among the rank-and-file, see Clemente 1999, p. 79
news of his malady was regularly appearing in the press throughout the first few months of 1932, but none of the sources consulted explains what exactly was the nature of his health problems
El Siglo Futuro 24.05.32, see here
see María Cruz Rubio Liniers, María Talavera Díaz, Bibliografías de Historia de España, vol. XIII: El carlismo, Madrid 2012, ISBN 8400090136, 9788400090135
Clemente 1999, p. 71
he also calls de Villores, at that time in his early 40s, “elderly Delegate”, see Blinkhorn 2008, pp. 40, 57
E.g. Palacio del Marqués de Villores in Sant Mateu, see here, or Torre El Palomar near the same town, see here Archived 2014-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
"turismovillena". Archived from the original on 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
their Facebook profile here
for the current holder of the title see La hija mayor de la fallecida marquesa de Villores reclama el título por edad, levante-emv available here

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