page_title: Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli
section_title: Deputy and senator
hierarchical_section_title: Manuel de Llanza y Pignatelli / Deputy and senator
caption_attribution_description: Català: Parada de Bícing davant el palau Centelles (segle XV), a la plaça de Sant Miquel, al barri Gòtic de Barcelona This is a photo of a building indexed in the Catalan heritage register as Bé Cultural d'Interès Local (BCIL) under the reference 08019/1213.
context_page_description: Manuel de Llanza y de Pignatelli de Aragón, Hurtado de Mendoza y Esquivel, 9th Duke of Solferino, 11th Marquis of Coscojuela, 13th Count of Centelles, grandee of Spain was a Spanish Carlist politician. In the late 19th century he emerged as one of party leaders in Catalonia and was its regional jefe in two separate strings of 1910–1914 and 1917–1919. He is recognized as typical example of inner-circle aristocrat ruling the party during the Restoration period.
context_section_description: Following the Integrist secession the new Carlist political leader, marqués de Cerralbo, embarked on institutional build-up of the movement. The emergent nationwide structures were originally set up to celebrate the centenary of conversion of Recaredo, but they gave rise to firm party organization. As the Aragón Carlist leader Francisco Cavero withdrew from politics it was Solferino, resident of Barcelona but one of major landholders in the region, appointed leader of Aragon junta. By this token he also entered the nationwide party executive, Junta Central Superior. His position within the party was confirmed when in 1889 he was invited to Frohsdorf to attend the wedding of doña Blanca; his position in public life was confirmed when he became object of ridicule on part of the hostile press.
  As Junta Central turned into a body coordinating the first Carlist electoral campaign of the Restoration Solferino became one of key so-called aperturistas; together with Cerralbo he pursued the path of acknowledging the system by at least partially adhering to its political rules. In 1890 he launched his own electoral campaign, standing in the Catalan Vich close to where he lived and in the Aragon Huesca where his major estate was. Though in Huesca he clearly lost, the Vich result remained heavily contested; the voting took place in February 1891, but he was finally declared victorious in the summer of 1892, just a month before the Cortes was dissolved. Though his influence in Vich was described by the press as "grandisima", in the following campaign he did not stand; instead, having completed 35 years of age Solferino decided to exercise his grandeza de España right and in 1893 he was admitted to the Senate, sitting as the only Carlist except de Cerralbo himself. Though the Catalan Carlist leader was Luis de Llauder y Dalmases, Solferino was gradually emerging as one of key regional jefes, presiding over some party meetings as early as in 1896. He remained involved in pilgrimage activities. A close collaborator of Llauder, both worked together developing regional Traditionalist media, especially a daily Correo Catalan and a weekly La Hormiga de Oro.
  In 1896 together with other Carlist deputies and senators Solferino withdrew from the Cortes; denying allegations that like in 1872, the act was introduction to Carlist insurgency, he nevertheless signed a letter lambasting the turnista system as corrupted and unsustainable. The same year he took part in ambiguous gatherings hailing general Moore and in 1898 he presented Carlos VII with an enigmatic gift. His actual involvement in La Octubrada, a series of minor Catalan Carlist 1900 revolts, is highly unclear. Though scholars do not list him among those involved and at the time of the disturbances he was together with other Carlist leaders in Paris, contemporary press noted that Badalona raid originated from Torre Baró estate of his brother-in-law Sivatte. Security forces searched his Barcelona palace tearing off the floor and allegedly discovered few rifles. Solferino denied any involvement, which did not spare him brief detention in 1901.
caption: Solferino palace, Barcelona
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