Don Domingo d'Yriarte, also spelled de Yriarte or Iriarte (1746–1795), was a Spanish diplomat.

Biography

D'Yriarte was born in

Tenerife Tenerife ( ; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands, an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. With a land area of and a population of 965,575 inhabitants as of A ...

in 1746. Relative of Juan d'Yriarte and Bernardo d'Yriarte, also diplomats and officials in Spanish service. He entered into the Spanish diplomatic service, serving as a secretary to ambassadors in Vienna (Austria) and Paris (France), and later as an ambassador in Warsaw,

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

. He was one of the last foreign diplomats to vacate his post in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

following the

Third Partition of Poland The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polis ...

and the end of the

in 1795. Signed the

Peace of Basel The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution (represented by François de Barthélemy). *The first was with Prussia (represented by Karl August von Hardenberg) on 5 April; *The s ...

on July 22 and died on 22 November that year.

References

1746 births 1795 deaths Marquesses of Spain Expatriates in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth People from Tenerife Ambassadors of Spain to France {{Spain-diplomat-stub