He had been asked by the Spanish Cortes to accept the vacant throne of Spain.

It remains within the king's prerogative to dissolve the Cortes if, at the conclusion of the four years, the president has not asked for its dissolution, according to Title II Article 56.

It remains within the king's prerogative to dissolve the Cortes if, at the conclusion of the four years, the president has not asked for its dissolution, according to Title II Section 56.

Philip II of Spain, a maternal grandson of Manuel I of Portugal, and nearest male claimant ( being an uncle of Sebastian I ), invaded with an army of 15 000 men, defeating the troops of Anthony, Prior of Crato at the Battle of Alcântara and was crowned Philip I of Portugal by the Cortes of Tomar in 1581.

Second-in-command to Hernan Cortes, Pedro de Alvarado was sent to the Guatemala highlands with 300 Spanish foot soldiers, 120 Spanish horsemen and several hundred Cholula and Tlascala auxiliaries.

A census of 1899 revealed that northern Honduras had been exporting bananas for several years and that over 1, 000 people in the region between Puerto Cortes and La Ceiba ( and inland as far as San Pedro Sula ) were tending bananas, most of them small holders.

It is said that Charles spoke several vernacular languages: he was fluent in French, Flemish, later adding an acceptable Spanish which was required by the Castilian Cortes Generales as a condition for becoming King of Castile.

The King visited several areas of the country: on the 8 November 1908 the King Manuel travelled to Oporto accompanied by his mother and other members of the Cortes.

There are several monarchist organizations in Portugal which maintain that only the Cortes or the National Assembly could legally determine the rightful claimant if ever Portugal decided to restore the monarchy.

After the war, López continued to serve the Spanish government in several administrative posts, including the Cortes for the city of Seville and as military governor in Madrid.

According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo's eye-witness account ( The Conquest of New Spain ) written several decades after the event, after Cortes ' expedition was forced to make their initial retreat from Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs erected a makeshift tzompantli to display the severed heads of men and horses they had captured from the invaders.

The Cortes were dissolved, and the federal and constituent Cortes of the republic convened, but they only sat during the summer of 1873, long enough to show their absolute incapacity, and to convince the executive that the safest policy was to suspend the session for several months.

Pavia sat in the Cortes of the Restoration several times, and once defended himself skillfully against Emilio Castelar, who upbraided him for the part he had played on the 3 January 1874.

In the 15th century the town hosted several meetings of the Cortes.

In midst of the first Carlist War, on 15 January 1837 the Cortes passed a law, ratified by royal decree of Regent María Cristina, which excluded Don Carlos and several his named allies from the succession to the Spanish crown and declared them stripped from their Spanish titles.

After several months of discussion, a consensus was reached between several parties, and the Constitution was sent to the Cortes for approval.

The town of Cortes has several sites worthy of a visit yet needs further development in order to attract foreign tourists.

Commanders: Colonel Vicente Tosta Carrasco, Colonel Flavio Del Cid, Colonel Gregorio Ferrera and after this trigger military leave for the " Sultana of the West " with a good army who to be spotted, in an attempt to stop strengthening the guard of the town hall and prepare both the soldiers and citizens to fight that has no place until 16 August of that year, to defend the city are the commander of arms Attorney Jesus Maria Rodriguez, Colonel Alfonso Ferrari, General and Colonel Vicente Ayala, with 400 soldiers and after several hours of siege, the city was delivered and the revolutionary forces marched north to the city, en route to San Pedro Sula, Cortes also fall into their power.

The Portuguese Cortes ( the assembly of the kingdom ) only met three times during his reign, always in Lisbon, the king's seat.

He called for the Portuguese Cortes only three times and at great intervals: 1525 in Torres Novas, 1535 in Évora and 1544 in Almeirim.

During his short reign of five years, Edward called the Portuguese Cortes ( the national assembly ) no less than five times to discuss the political affairs of his kingdom.

Nevertheless, that importance began to fade in the 1820s when the place was destroyed a couple of times by fires, the bay began to silt up, and nearby Puerto Cortes was developed.

The history of Cortes dates back to pre-Hispanic times.

The Philippines was given representation in the Spanish Cortes three times ( last time was from 1836 – 1837 ).

Back in Portugal, Ferdinand's brothers, Edward of Portugal, Peter of Coimbra and John of Reguengos pleaded with the Portuguese Cortes ( parliament ) to ratify the treaty and deliver Ceuta to Morocco.

Retreating before the advancing French and an outbreak of yellow fever, the Supreme Central Junta moved to Isla de León, where it was protected by the British Royal Navy, and abolished itself, leaving a regency to rule until the Cortes could convene.

According to the constitution, it is incumbent upon the King: to sanction and promulgate laws ; to summon and dissolve the Cortes Generales ( the Parliament ) and to call elections ; to call a referendum under the circumstances provided in the constitution ; to propose a candidate for prime minister, and to appoint or remove him from office, as well as other ministers ; to issue the decrees agreed upon by the Council of Ministers ; to confer civil and military positions, and to award honors and distinctions ; to be informed of the affairs of the State, presiding over the meetings of the Council of Ministers whenever opportune ; to exercise supreme command of the Spanish Armed Forces, to exercise the right to grant pardons, in accordance to the law ; and to exercise the High Patronage of the Royal Academies.

The choice of the grand-master of Aviz ratified the old alliance between the Crown and the military orders ; his election by the whole Cortes not only ratified the alliance between the Crown and the commons, but also included the nobles and the Church.

He called for a truce, explaining his decision to the Cortes Generales: " I can take Biak-na-Bato, any military man can take it, but I can not answer that I could crush the rebellion.

In a statement to the Cortes Generales, he said, " I can take Biak-na-Bato, any military man can take it, but I can not answer that I could crush the rebellion.

This he hoped to realize with Emilio Castelar, but the plan was interrupted by the military pronunciamiento for the purpose of dissolving the Cortes of 1873.

On February 26, in the main hall of the Ajuda Palace in the presence of both Chambers of the Cortes, the Royal Court and the diplomatic corp, as well as some of the Prince's colleagues from Brazil ( carefully orchestrated by the Queen Dowager ), the investiture began.

The Cortes took his children as wards of the country ; three days afterwards King Amadeo I swore in the presence of the corpse to observe the new Spanish constitution.

A Nahuatl mispronunciation of " Marina " as " Malin " plus the reverential "- tzin " suffix, formed the compounded title of " Malintzin ," which the natives used for both Marina and Cortes, because he spoke through her.

The People's Party attempted to reject the admission into the Cortes of the 2005 reform of the Autonomy Statute of Catalonia on the grounds that it should be dealt with as a constitutional reform rather than a mere statute reform because it allegedly contradicts the spirit of the Constitution in many points, especially the Statute's alleged breaches of the " solidarity between regions " principle enshrined by the Constitution.

The new parliament then applied a constitutional loophole to oust Alcala-Zamora: the Constitution allowed the Cortes to remove the President from office after two early dissolutions, and while the first ( 1933 ) dissolution had been partially justified because of the fulfillment of the Constitutional mission of the first legislature, the second one had been a simple bid to trigger early elections.

The king chose Suárez because he felt he could meet the challenge of the difficult political process that lay ahead: persuading the Cortes ( Spanish parliament ), which was composed of installed Francoist politicians, to dismantle Franco ’ s system.

Many clothes factories have been moved to Villanueva Cortes because it is the best place where everything can be made.

This choice for the regency was not popular because Eleonor was Aragonese, so in a meeting of the Portuguese Cortes summoned by Afonso's half-brother John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, the regency was awarded to the Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, another half-brother of Afonso and an uncle of the young king.

It was a difficult proposition, because the domestic aristocracy and clergy of Portugal had accepted Philip as their King in 1581 at the Cortes of Tomar.

Two years of revolution and anarchy followed, until in 1870 the Cortes declared that Spain would again have a king.

Some Mexicans also credit her with having brought Christianity to the " New World " from Europe, and for having influenced Cortes to be more humane than he would otherwise have been.

It is argued, however, that without her help, Cortes would not have been successful in conquering the Aztecs as quickly, giving the Aztec people enough time to adapt to new technology and methods of warfare.

Due to the irregularity of assuming the royal title, when his mother, the legitimate queen, was alive, the negotiations with the Castilian Cortes in Valladolid ( 1518 ) proved difficult, and in the end Charles was accepted under the following conditions: he would learn to speak Castilian ; he would not appoint foreigners ; he was prohibited from taking precious metals from Castile ; and he would respect the rights of his mother, Queen Joanna.

The convening of the Cortes de León in the cloisters of the Basilica of San Isidoro would be one of the most important events of Alfonso's reign.

To secure the succession of the throne of Portugal, the Portuguese Cortes covenanted marriage between Beatrice and John I of Castile, on 2 April 1383 in Salvaterra de Magos, with the stipulation that upon the death of Ferdinand I, with no issue of sons, the crown would pass to Beatrice, and her husband become titular king of Portugal.

Lisbon soon fell, and Philip was elected King of Portugal at the Portuguese Cortes of Tomar in 1581, on condition that the kingdom and its overseas territories would not become Spanish provinces.

The potential loss of independence of Portugal, through her marriage to John I of Castile resulted in the rebellion by the Master of the Order of Aviz ( later King John I of Portugal ), who would garner the support of the Portuguese Cortes, thus laying the seeds for his triumph at the Battle of Aljubarrota.

: I shall relate how the new settlement was, during many troubled years, successfully defended against foreign and domestic enemies ; how, under that settlement, the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known ; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example ; how our country, from a state of ignominious vassalage, rapidly rose to the place of umpire among European powers ; how her opulence and her martial glory grew together ; how, by wise and resolute good faith, was gradually established a public credit fruitful of marvels which to the statesmen of any former age would have seemed incredible ; how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance ; how Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection ; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier and wealthier than the realms which Cortes and Pizarro had added to the dominions of Charles the Fifth ; how in Asia, British adventurers founded an empire not less splendid and more durable than that of Alexander.

After being defeated in battle by the Spaniards, the Tlaxcalans entered into an alliance with Cortes that would be invaluable in the struggle against the Aztecs.

On the 25th of september, 1810, the second day of regular meetings, he was elected as vice-president of the Cortes and succeeded in obtaining powers which would benefit the economy of the Puerto Rico.

Power y Giralt died while still in Cádiz ( he would be succeeded in the Cortes by José María Quiñones who served from 25 November 1813 — 10 May 1814 ) on 10 June 1813 from the yellow fever epidemic which had spread throughout Europe.

Legislative Power would be in the hands of the Federal Cortes, which would be composed of the Congress and the Senate.

Should he not present himself in Mexico within the time to be determined by the Mexican Cortes ( parliament ) to take the oath of office, the crown would then be offered in sequence to his brothers, the Infantes Carlos and Francisco, and cousin, Archduke Charles or another individual of a royal house, whom the Cortes will determine.

He was reelected to the Cortes in 1933, and in 1934 joined his party ( now the Galician Republican Party ) with Azaña ’ s and others to create the Republican Left, a party which would then become a part of the Popular Front.

The report would be the basis for the Draft of the Language Law of Aragon published the following session ( 1999 – 2003 ) under the PSOE-PAR coalition, where for the first time from the Cortes de Aragón would detail those municipalities which formed part of a Catalan-speaking community, with the aim of recognising co-officiality and encouraging the use of Catalan in public life and especially in education.

Although most of the overseas representatives were Criollos, the majority wanted to extend suffrage to all indigenous, mixed-race and free black people of the Spanish Empire, which would have granted the overseas territories a majority in the future Cortes.

During the stay of Cortes ' expedition in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan ( initially as guest-captives of the Emperor Moctezuma II, before the battle which would lead to the conquest ), they reported a wooden tzompantli altar adorned with the skulls from recent sacrifices.

He would have placed at the head of his commonwealth a president and Cortes freely elected by the people, ruling the country in a liberal spirit and with due respect for conservative principles, religious traditions, and national unity.