Los jefes del primer carlismo

Abstract

In this paper I`m trying to find out which kind of people were the Carlist chiefs who took part in the first war. With that intention I`ve selected the 100 most outstanding ones and, after studying their biographies, I`ve prepared some statistics. I have extracted the information from Pirala`s work, from other books abour the First Carlist War and from several biographical works about Carlist leaders. With this investigation I have been able to know that most of the Carlist leaders came from Catalonia, the Basque Country and Navarre, were mostly military expelled from active duty or leaders of royalist volunteers and had a quite varied life history. Some of them were idealists, other pragmatists and other opportunists.