House of Iturbide

House of Iturbide
CountryMexico Mexico
Founded22 June 1822; 202 years ago (1822-06-22)[1]
FounderAgustín I
Current headMaximilian von Götzen-Iturbide (cognatic descendant)
Titles
Dissolution1949 (in agnatic line; last male dynast died in 1925)

The House of Iturbide (Spanish: Casa de Iturbide) is a former Imperial House of Mexico. It was founded by the Sovereign Mexican Constituent Congress on 22 June 1822 when the newly independent Mexican congress confirmed Agustín I's title of Constitutional Emperor of Mexico.[2][3][4][5] He was baptized with the names of Saints Augustine, Cosmas, and Damian at the cathedral there.[6][7] The last name Iturbide was originally from the Basque Country, Spain.[8] Emperor Agustín abdicated and lived in exile with the prohibition on returning to Mexico. Despite that ban, he returned, was captured, and executed. Grandchildren of Emperor Agustín were adopted by Maximilian I of Mexico (1864–67), who had no biological children, and granted some status in the ephemeral Second Mexican Empire.

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