ldest son became Charles IV. of
Spain in 1788, while his second son, Ferdinand, was made king of Naples
in 1759. Charles IV. was deposed by Napoleon, but in 1814 his son,
Ferdinand VII., again obtained his throne. Ferdinand was succeeded by
his daughter Isabella, who in 1870 abdicated in favour of her son,
Alphonso XII. (d. 1885). Alphonso's posthumous son became king of Spain
as Alphonso XIII. Ferdinand's brother, Don Carlos (d. 1855), claimed the
throne in 1833 on the ground of the Salic law, and a fierce war raged
for some years in the north of Spain. His son Don Carlos, count de
Montemolin (1818-1861), revived the claim, but was defeated and
compelled to sign a renunciation. The nephew of the latter, Don Carlos
Maria Juan Isidor, duke of Madrid, for some years carried on war in
Spain with the object of attaining the rights contended for by the
Carlist party.

GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF BOURBON

I. _The French Bourbons_

Henry IV. (1553-1610)
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Louis XIII. Gaston,
(1601-1643) duke of Orleans
| (1608-1660)
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Louis XIV. Philip I.
(1638-1715) duke of Orleans
| (1640-1701)
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Louis the Dauphin Philip II.
(1661-1711) duke of Orleans,[1] the regent