Abstract
Rodrigo Caballero Illanes presents himself, in the words of Henry Kamen, as one of the builders of Bourbon supremacy in Spain. is period in the city of Cadiz was fundamental in the evolution of Rodrigo Caballero’s professional career coinciding with the War of Spanish Succession. Caballero managed to buy a perpetual regiduría in the city council of Cádiz, and later, the mayor’s o ce of the city. During the war Rodrigo Caballero raised a regiment of veterans of 570 soldiers being rewarded by Felipe V with the rank of infantry colonel. Likewise, the investigation of an attempted kidnapping of the royal family by a group of imperial collaborators led Philip V, in gratitude, to appoint him Mayor of the Crime of the Audience of Seville, and intermediary for the release of his natural son Rodrigo Caballero, the one- armed captured by the Portuguese army.
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