The chancery of the spanish first secretary of state and of the office - department of state, during the reign of Isabel ii (1833-1868): introduction to his study

Abstract

In the multiple studies realized on the trade cancilleresco, the majority centred in the medieval epoch, very few ones approach the analysis of this institution in the modern age and many less in the contemporaneousness. Inside them no allusion exists to the existence of a chancellor in the Department of Spanish State (precedent of the current State Department); there are references to chancellors of the secret stamp, of the major stamp, notaries, prothonotaries, recorders, sealers, etc., depend of others institutions, but nothing on the office that occupies us linked, between his many assignments, to the production of those documents relative to the spanish exterior politics. In this introductory study we try to explain the origins of an institution cancilleresca unpublished linked to the contemporary epoch, and to a reign (that of Isabel II, monarch who establishes this dependence inside the flowchart of the spanish First Secretariat of State) as well as his general functioning.