This is a list of Spanish regents, a regent, from the Latin regens "one who reigns", is a person selected to act as head of state (ruling or not) because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated.
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| disability of Queen Joanna. | |||||||||
| Crown of Castile | 26 November 1504 Death of Queen Isabella the Catholic. | 27 June 1506 Queen Joanna and King Philip I's arrival. | |||||||
| Crown of Castile: Ferdinand II of Aragon | 17 August 1507 Death of King Philip I of Castile in September 1506, followed by the recognition of the incapacity of Queen Joanna. | 23 January 1516 | |||||||
| Crown of Castile: Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros | 23 January 1516 Death of King Ferdinand II. | 19 September 1517 King Charles I's arrival. | |||||||
| Crown of Aragon
| 23 January 1516 Death of King Ferdinand II. | 29 July 1518 Charles I become co-monarch with his mother Queen Joanna. | |||||||
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| during Charles I's absences.[1] | |||||||||
| Cardinal Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens | May 1520 | July 1522 King Charles I's arrival. | |||||||
| Empress Isabella | July 1529 | April 1533 King Charles I's arrival. | |||||||
| Empress Isabella | April 1535 | December 1536 King Charles I's arrival. | |||||||
| Empress Isabella | July 1538 | November 1539 | |||||||
| Prince Philip[2] | 1539 Death of Empress Isabella. | November 1541 King Charles I's arrival. | |||||||
| Prince Philip | May 1543 | 1548 | |||||||
| Archduke Maximilian[3] and Maria of Austria | 1 October 1548 Charles I and Prince Philip's absences. | 12 July 1551 Prince Philip's arrival. | |||||||
| Prince Philip | 12 July 1551 | July 1554 | |||||||
| Joanna of Austria, Princess Dowager of Portugal | July 1554 Charles I and Prince Philip's absences. | 8 September 1559 King Philip II's arrival. (Became monarch in 1556) | |||||||
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| as President of the Council of Castile during King Philip III's visit to Portugal. | |||||||
| 22 April 1619 | 4 December 1619 | ||||||
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| during the minority of King Charles II. | |||||||||
| Mariana of Austria | 17 September 1665 Death of King Philip IV.[4] | 6 November 1675 Charles II's majority.[5] | |||||||
| during King Charles II's illness. | |||||||||
| Cardinal Luis Fernández de Portocarrero | 29 October 1700[6] | 1 November 1700 Death of King Charles II. | |||||||
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| 1 November 1700 | 18 February 1701 King Philip V's arrival. | |||||
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| during King Philip V's absence. | |||||||||
| Cardinal Luis Fernández de Portocarrero | 1 September 1701[8] | 17 January 1703[9] | |||||||
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| during King Charles III's absence. | |||||||||
| Elisabeth Farnese | 10 August 1759 Death of King Ferdinand VI. | 9 December 1759 King Charles III's arrival. | |||||||
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| , French invasion (King Ferdinand VII's absence). President: | |||||||||
| Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain | 10 April 1808 | 4 May 1808 Infante Antonio Pascual's departure to Bayonne. | |||||||
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| Joachim Murat | 4 May 1808[10] | 20 July 1808 King Joseph's arrival. | |||||||
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| Jean-de-Dieu Soult | 1 July 1813 King Joseph's departure.[11] | 11 December 1813 Treaty of Valençay | |||||||
| at Peninsular War, against the French invaders. | |||||||
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| . Presidents: | |||||||
| José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca (Acting) | 25 September 1808 | 1 October 1808 | |||||
| 1 October 1808 | 30 December 1808 | ||||||
| Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso y Guzmán, 15th Marquis of Astorga (Acting) | 30 December 1808 | 1 May 1809 | |||||
1 May 1809 | 1 November 1809 | ||||||
| Juan Acisclo de Vera | 1 November 1809 | 31 January 1810 | |||||
| . Presidents: | |||||||
| Francisco Javier Castaños | 1 February 1810 | 29 May 1810 | |||||
| Pedro de Quevedo y Quintano | 29 May 1810 | 26 September 1810 | |||||
| Francisco Saavedra de Sangronis | 27 September 1810 | 28 October 1810 | |||||
| Pedro Agar y Bustillo | 28 October 1810 | 8 December 1810 | |||||
| Joaquín Blake y Joyes | 8 December 1810 | 8 April 1811 | |||||
| Pedro Agar y Bustillo | 8 April 1811 | 8 August 1811 | |||||
| Gabriel de Císcar y Císcar | 8 August de 1811 | 8 December de 1811 | |||||
| Pedro Agar y Bustillo | 8 December 1811 | 22 January 1812 | |||||
| . Presidents: | |||||||
| Joaquín de Mosquera y Figueroa | 22 January 1812 | 15 June 1812 | |||||
| Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado | 15 June 1812 | 15 December 1812 | |||||
| Juan María de Villavicencio | 15 December 1812 | 8 March 1813 | |||||
| Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, 14th Count of Chinchón (Acting) | 8 March 1813 | 22 March 1813 | |||||
| 22 March 1813 | 10 May 1814 King Ferdinand VII's arrival. | ||||||
| during the Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis Intervention. | |||||||
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| . President: | |||||||
| Cayetano Valdés y Flores | 11 June 1823 King Ferdinand VII prisoner of the Cortes. | 15 June 1823 | |||||
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| . President: | |||||||
| Francisco de Eguía | 9 April 1823 | 25 May 1823 | |||||
| . President: | |||||||
| Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado | 25 May 1823 | 1 October 1823 King Ferdinand VII's liberation. | |||||
| during the minority of Queen Isabella II: | |||||||||
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| Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies | 29 September 1833 Death of King Ferdinand VII. | 12 October 1840 Queen Regent's deposition. | |||||||
| . President: | |||||||||
| Baldomero Espartero | 12 October 1840 | 10 May 1841 | |||||||
| Baldomero Espartero | 10 May 1841 | 23 July 1843 General Espartero's deposition and Queen Isabella II's majority. | |||||||
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| President: | |||||||
| Francisco Serrano y Domínguez | (President of the Provisional Government) 8 October 1868 Queen Isabella II's deposition. | 25 February 1869 | |||||
| (President of the Executive Power) 25 February 1869 | 18 June 1869 | ||||||
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| Francisco Serrano y Domínguez | 18 June 1869 | 2 January 1871 King Amadeo's arrival. | |||||||
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| during King Alfonso XII's absence. President: | |||||||||
| Antonio Cánovas del Castillo | 31 December 1874 Bourbon dynasty restored. | 14 January 1875 King Alfonso XII's arrival. | |||||||
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| after the death of Alfonso XII (who died while she was pregnant) and during the minority of King Alfonso XIII (who was born king). | |||||||||
| Maria Christina of Austria Death of King Alfonso XII. | 26 November 1885 | 17 May 1902 King Alfonso XIII's majority. | |||||||
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| National interregnum under the Francoist regime. | |||||||||
| Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain | 26 July 1947 Restoration of the "Kingdom of Spain" | 20 November 1975 Died | |||||||
| Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel | 20 November 1975 As President of the Regency Council after Franco's death. | 22 November 1975 Juan Carlos became monarch. | |||||||
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| during Francisco Franco's visit to Portugal. | |||||||
| 22 October 1949 | 27 October 1949 | |||||
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| during Francisco Franco's illness. | |||||||||
| Juan Carlos, Prince of Spain | 19 July 1974 | 2 September 1974 | |||||||
| 30 October 1975 | 20 November 1975 Death of Francisco Franco. | ||||||||