Manuel de Roda y Arrieta (5 February 1708 – 30 August 1782) was a Spanish diplomat and politician. He was Ambassador in Rome under King

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of Spain and then nominated by King

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of Spain, half-brother of Ferdinand VI and formerly King of Naples and Sicily till the death of his half-brother Ferdinand, Ministry of "Grace and Justice", which he held for 17 years.

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Born in

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on 5 February 1708, he participated actively in the creation of the Royal Spanish Academy of History (1735–1738). As a

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and adviser to Charles III during the reformist era that produced the Esquilache Riots attributed to Jesuit agitation, Roda was instrumental in the expulsion of the

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in 1767 from Spain and Spanish overseas possessions in Europe, America and the Philippine Islands. The Portuguese expelled the Jesuits from all their domains earlier (circa 1759), under

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, 1st Count of Oeiras, 1st

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. The

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as an Institution would be banned on July 21, 1773 by the Pope

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via the

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". Russia, Prussia and Poland (then absorbed by Russia) denied papal catholic authority (and Bourbon's influence) and in their kingdom forbade the promulgation of the

ordering the Jesuits to carry on their educational activities wherever they were.Choiseul, the architect of the suppression in France received a letter form Manuel de Roda, his counterpart in Spain: ''"We have killed the Son. Now nothing remains for us to do except carry out a like action against the mother, our Holy Roman Church"'' (in W.O'Malley, the Fifth week, Chicago, 1976, p.60) Roda died at the Royal Site of San Ildefonso, Segovia. There, he was buried at the "Christ Chapel" of this Summer Royal Palace, requesting that the King pass his title of Marquis of Roda to Miguel Joaquín Lorieri, who was married to his niece Francisca de Alpuente y Roda.

References

* RAFAEL OLAECHEA, ''Las relaciones hispano-romanas en la segunda mitad del XVIII'' (in Spanish), Institución Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza (1999), * ISIDORO PINEDO IPARRAGUIRRE, "Manuel de Roda y Arrieta, ministro de Carlos III", in ''Letras de Deusto'', Vol. 12, no. 23, (1982), pp. 97-110. . * JESUS PRADELLS NADAL, "Política, libros y polémicas culturales en la correspondencia extraoficial de Ignacio de Heredia (y Alamán) con Manuel de Roda (1773-1781)", Revista de historia moderna, N. 18 (1999–2000). ISSN 0212-5862, pp. 125–222
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Correspondence with Minister of Justice de Roda from Ignacio de Heredia (Spanish Embassy in Paris, as Secretary of the Ambassador

Count of Aranda Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Jiménez de Urrea, 10th Count of Aranda (1718 in Siétamo, Huesca – 1798 in Épila, Saragossa), was a Spanish statesman and diplomat. Early life He began ecclesiastical studies in the seminary of Bologna but ...

, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea y Jiménez de Urrea, 10th Count of Aranda, 1718-1798), dealing with Spanish literature, the lawsuits against Pablo de Olavide y Jáuregui (1725-1803), the comments on the Spanish defeat of 1775 trying to conquer the African city of Alger, and the purchasing orders for Paris librarians to enhance the magnificent library of de Roda, today conserved and visited by prestigious hispanists in the Real Seminario de San Carlos de Zaragoza. {{DEFAULTSORT:Roda, Manuel de 1706 births 1782 deaths 18th century in Spain People from Zaragoza

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