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Enrique Barrau Salado

Enrique Barrau Salado (1912-1961) was a Spanish military and a Carlist militant. He is particularly known because of his role in the Andalusian anti-Republican Traditionalist conspiracy of the mid-1930s, his engagement in the July 1936 coup in Seville, and then for his position as a requeté commander in the Tercio Virgen de los Reyes battalion during the Spanish Civil War. Afterwards he became a professional officer in the army and retired in the rank of a major. After the war he did not engage openly in politics, yet among the Andalusian Carlists he remained an iconic point of reference. Some fictitious literary characters have been modeled after him.

Enrique Barrau Salado
Born1912
Seville, Spain
Died1961
Seville
NationalitySpanish
Occupationmilitary
Known forconspirator, military commander
Political partyCarlism

Family and youth edit

 
Seville, 1910s

The French noble family of Barrau was traditionally related to Toulouse; some of its representatives served as military among Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis, during the anti-liberal French intervention in Spain in the 1820s.[1] It is unclear whether the great-grandfather of Enrique, Jules Barrau, was among them,[2] yet his Toulouse-born son and Enrique’s paternal grandfather, Leoncio Barrau Galinier (1837-1924),[3] studied in Seville and became a civil engineer specializing in roads. He grew to a distinguished member of the hispalense bourgeoisie;[4] in the mid-1870s he was CEO of the Alcalá railway line,[5] while in the mid-1880s he was member of the board and manager of Caminos de Hierro de Este de España. Barrau Galinier co-purchased the defunct San Agustín convent and turned it into a food market,[6] operational until 1900.[7] In the early 20th century he engaged financially in Banco Díez y Vergara, managed an undefined "minerales" business[8] and remained CEO of Ferrocarril de Sevilla, Alcalá, Carmona.[9] He was a cultured person; apart from owning Teatro San Fernando and Teatro Cervantes,[10] he also published a booklet on the San Agustín convent.[11]

Barrau Galinier’s son and Enrique’s father, Enrique Barrau Grande (1871-1930),[12] studied medicine and is mentioned either as "medico-cirujano"[13] or "medico oculista",[14] yet there is no information whether he has ever practiced. He inherited shares in his father’s railway business[15] and in the 1920s served as manager of Compañía S.A.C.[16] He married Carmen Salado Iznaga (1879-1957),[17] daughter to a respected Seville doctor;[18] she was cousin to the later rector of the Seville University, Mariano Mota Salado.[19] The couple had 4 children, apart from the oldest Enrique also Leoncio,[20] Carmen[21] and Antonio.[22] Barrau Grande died in mysterious circumstances, a day after having sold majority shares in C.S.A.C., the railway company that he owned and managed.[23]

 
maternal grandfather

None of the sources consulted provides information on childhood and early education of Enrique, apart that he was strongly influenced by his maternal Salado family.[24] Given his tumultuous youth, punctuated by detentions and arrests, it is not clear whether he pursued a university education. In 1933-1934 as alférez de complimento he was undergoing military training in 8. Regimiento de Caballería in Seville.[25] There is no information on his professional engagements prior to outbreak of the civil war. Already after the conflict, in 1940,[26] Barrau married Petra García Vélez (died 1973);[27] there is nothing closer known either about her or her family. The couple had 5 children: Enrique, Petra, Aurelio, Antonio and Carmen Barrau García.[28] None of them became a public figure, though Antonio and Aurelio remained active as Carlists until the 21st century;[29] Antonio was in executive of the Andalusian CTC,[30] while Aurelio remained active in the post-war requeté organisation;[31] his daughter and Enrique’s granddaughter, Angeles Barrau Lena, acted as the Andalusian CTC treasurer.[32]

Republic edit

 
drill of Andalusian requeté

There is nothing known of political preferences of Barrau’s paternal ancestors,[33] though they might have nurtured some legitimist sympathies;[34] the maternal ones were Traditionalists of Integrist leaning. In 1930, when aged 17, the adolescent Enrique was introduced by his uncle José Salado Yznaga to Manuel Fal Conde, the Integrist leader in Andalusia;[35] the two were later to develop sort of a father-son bond.[36] Barrau followed Fal to the united Carlist organization, Comunión Tradicionalista, and in 1932 he was appointed secretario of its newly created Seville youth branch, Juventud Tradicionalista.[37] In the summer of 1932 he was engaged in the Sanjurjo coup, but there are no details available.[38] Barrau was then detained[39] and though shortly released,[40] a string of incarcerations followed in December 1932,[41] January 1933[42] and April 1933,[43] the last case related to an anti-governmental demonstration.[44] He was among the longest-incarcerated Carlists of the time.[45]

Praised by Fal as one of the most promising muchachos of the movement,[46] in 1933 Barrau became secretario of Jefatura Regional de Andalucia;[47] he accompanied Fal during his local party engagements[48] and during longer trips across Spain, e.g. to take part in a grand Carlist rally in Zumarraga.[49] Also in 1933 he started to organize a Seville branch of the Carlist paramilitary structure, requeté.[50] Following a year of hectic efforts[51] the organization was strong enough to stage an impressive display of strength at the Quintillo estate, when some 600 uniformed members performed drills and military exercises;[52] Barrau was among key speakers during the event.[53] Also in 1934 he co-organized sending some Seville requetés to military training in Rome, yet it is not clear whether he went himself.[54] At the time he was already a member of Junta Directiva of the Seville CT branch.[55]

 
Barrau (2fR) at Quintillo, 1934

Since 1935 Barrau was formally the commander of Primer Requeté de Sevilla, a battalion-strength[56] paramilitary unit[57] subordinated to the Andalusian requeté commander, Luis Redondo.[58] In 1936 the Carlist claimant Alfonso Carlos acknowledged his efforts with Corbata de la Orden de la Legitimidad Proscrita.[59] In the spring of 1936 Barrau was actively engaged in Carlist efforts to mount an anti-Republican coup; according to the plan, prior to takeover of key Madrid premises distractive risings were to be staged in few spots, among them in Andalusia and Extremadura near the Portuguese frontier.[60] Under supervision of professional officers, Redondo and Ignacio Romero Osborne, Barrau was busy gathering requeté volunteers in the Andalusian countryside.[61] The coup was eventually called off as in May the Republican security uncovered part of the scheme and detained some of those involved, yet Barrau was not among them.

Civil war edit

 
Barrau in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo

In early July 1936 the Barrau brothers[62] were heavily involved in local talks between the Carlists and the military, aimed at seizing power in Seville.[63] Around mid-day of July 18 Enrique Barrau commanded a requeté detachment which tried to take control of the gobierno civil building, but the assailants failed and withdrew.[64] They returned in early afternoon as infantry support for rebel army artillery sub-units; following some skirmishes, the premises were seized shortly afterwards.[65] During following days Barrau’s home served as concentration point for requetés;[66] he led his men in combat against workers’ militia for control over the Seville districts (Macarena, San Julián,[67] San Marcos[68]) and in repressive actions.[69]

In August–October Barrau was involved in numerous requeté operations in western Andalusia.[70] It appears that he commanded one of 3 companies of a battalion, headed by professional officers; first Luis Redondo and then José María García Paredes.[71] Initially the unit operated west of Seville in the Huelva province, suffocating pockets of republican resistance in Sierra de Aracena and the mining region of Rio Tinto;[72] then it was shuttled towards the Málaga province and as part of so-called "Columna Redondo" took part in fightings for Saucejo.[73] Already when the unit was renamed to Tercio Virgen de los Reyes, Barrau was engaged in operations on the Cordobese front in the Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo sector; in October requetés seized the Anarchist stronghold of Bujalance and set their headquarters there.[74]

In November 1936 Barrau was recalled from the line to join Fal in Getafe and Leganés;[75] then in Toledo he took part in planning of Real Academia Militar de Requetés,[76] perhaps to become one of its commanders.[77] The scheme ended up in disaster, as Franco blocked it and got Fal expelled from the country;[78] however, there is no information about any measures taken against Barrau. In early 1937 he was back in line, taking part in combat first for Málaga and in the summer again in the Bujalance-Lopera region.[79] He was fiercely hostile to the Franco-imposed political unification and declared utter loyalty to the sidelined Fal.[80] Later during the year he contemplated "war against the Blues",[81] "in desperation" complained about Carlist marginalisation[82] and even staged minor demonstrations.[83]

 
Barrau in Cuevas del Becerro

Despite displays of dissent, in December 1937 Barrau was declared in "empleo de Capitán", acting captain.[84] In early 1938 his unit was moved to Extremadura and took part in combat for Valle de la Serena, the Zújar river and Castuera. In July he was wounded,[85] according to some sources heavily,[86] and spent some time in the rear. Following re-establishment, in January 1939 he returned to line and commanded a company in what was named "4. Batallón-Bandera de FET de las JONS de Sevilla";[87] at Peñarroya, Valsequillo and Bélmez[88] the unit opposed the last Republican offensive of the conflict.[89] Barrau ended the war as a highly decorated officer, with two Medallas de Sufrimiento por la Patria, Medalla de Mérito Militar, Cruz de la Orden de San Hermenegildo and collective decorations.[90]

Francoism edit

cavalry Academy, Valladolid

In the summer of 1939 Barrau decided to commence a professional military service and in July he was admitted to ranks with "empleo inmediato", immediate employment.[91] Though formally he was merely "teniente de complemento de caballería", a reserve cavalry lieutenant, he got his wartime provisional promotion to captain acknowledged with seniority from May 25, 1938.[92] Already as a capitán in 1940 he was admitted to Academia de Caballería in Valladolid.[93] None of the sources consulted provides details on his military education in the academy and it is not known when he graduated, though most likely it occurred in the early 1940s. The 1942 graduation album claims that as a professional officer he was promoted to captain with seniority from March 31, 1939.[94] There is almost no information on Barrau’s military postings,[95] except that in the early 1950s he was assigned to Regimento de Caballería Cazadores Sagunto no. 7 in Seville.[96] He did not ascend much along the rank ladder and was promoted only once; around 1952 he ascended from captain to comandante (major).[97] Reasons for such a moderate career of a previously distinguished officer are not known.[98] At some point he passed from active service to reserve, attached to the 2. Región Militar (Seville); his last rank was comandante de caballería.[99]

As a professional military in the Francoist Spain Barrau was not in position to cultivate his Traditionalist political preferences publicly.[100] None of historiographic monographs on Carlism of the post-war era mentions him as engaged in buildup of party structures or propaganda activities.[101] In private he remained in touch with prestigious personalities of Andalusian Carlism, like his former commander Luis Redondo[102] and the Carlist Jefe Delegado, Manuel Fal Conde,[103] who both had him in extremely high regard.[104] Due to his wartime deeds and cheerful, unassuming, lively personality he became sort of iconic point of reference for the Seville Traditionalists;[105] also the young carlohuguistas, who nurtured own political plans centred on Don Carlos Hugo, considered it a must for the prince to see Barrau when visiting Seville in the late 1950s.[106]

 
Carlist standard

In 1959 Barrau was among co-organizers of the 25th anniversary of the Quintillo parade,[107] which due to its independent Carlist flavor caused unease within local administration. In 1960 the Quintillo ceremony, with preparations already under way,[108] was explicitly banned by the civil governor, Hermenegildo Altozano Moraleda. Barrau stormed into his office but failed to get the decision reversed; afterwards he photocopied the order[109] and distributed a lengthy account of the incident.[110] In spite of it, his very formal funeral[111] was attended by numerous high military;[112] the widow received Orden de la Legitimidad Proscrita.[113] Dubbed "un capitán español del viejo estilo de los tercios de Flandes o de Lepanto",[114] until today among Traditionalists Barrau remains an iconic Andalusian requeté figure.[115] In his 2020 novel Linea de fuego Arturo Pérez-Reverte modeled one of the protagonists, captain Coll de Rei, on Barrau.[116]

See also edit

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ this was the case of Auguste de Barrau (1792-1848)
  2. ^ Jules Barrau entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here. He was married to Delfine Galinier, see Delfina Galinier entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  3. ^ full name Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier, see Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here. He was married to Adela Grande Pérez (1844-1939), see Adela Grande Perez entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  4. ^ he lived at calle Lombardos 9-11, now calle Múñoz y Oliver, Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier, see Julio Santiago Leoncio Barrau Galinier entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  5. ^ La Correspondencia de España 26.12.74, available here
  6. ^ in 1883, see Alberto Fernández González, El desaparecido monasterio sevillano de San Agustín, [in:] Archivo Español de Arte LXXXVI (2013), pp. 317, 326
  7. ^ Fernández González 2013, p. 327
  8. ^ Anuario del comercio, de la industria, de la magistratura y de la administración 1894, Madrid 1894, p. 1991, available here
  9. ^ Historia de la Banca de Andalucía, [in:] Banca Andalucia blog 04.02.15, available here l
  10. ^ Manuel Jesús Roldan, Un barco hundido y la marcha Virgen del Valle, [in:] ABC [Sevilla] 09.11.15, available here
  11. ^ Leoncio Barrau, Notas históricas acerca el ex-convento de San Agustín de Sevilla y ex-presidio peninsular, Sevilla 1881
  12. ^ Enrique Barrau Grande entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  13. ^ El Liberal 23.01.30, available here
  14. ^ El Siglo Futuro 17.01.30, available here
  15. ^ the Barrau Galinier wealth was inherited also his brother (Enrique’s paternal uncle), Julio Barrau Grande, in the press also dubbed "prestigioso industrial", see El Liberal 04.09.26, available here. The third brother, Alberto Barrau Grande, was emerging as a great Seville baritone singer; in 1896 he perished in a Guadalquivir disaster, Jesús Roldan 2015
  16. ^ for 1923 see El Liberal 14.08.23, available here, for 1927 see El Liberal 21.12.27, available here
  17. ^ Carmen Salado Iznaga entry, [in:] Geneanet entry, available here
  18. ^ her father and the maternal grandfather of Enrique was Antonio de Padua Salado Moreno (1834-1900), Antonio de Padua Salado Moreno entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here. He was himself the son of a doctor; he practiced first in Huelva and then in Seville, becoming a very respected specialist, Antonio Salado y Moreno, [in:] Galería de sevillanos notables service, available here, see also El Guadalete 15.10.00, available here a. He was married to Carmen Iznaga de Iznaga (1853-1919), see Carmen Iznaga e Iznaga entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  19. ^ already as rector of the university Mariano Mota Salado was witness at Barrau’s wedding in 1940, Falange Española 18.08.40, available here
  20. ^ Leoncio Barrau Salado (1916-1996), married to Carmen de Velasco López de Letona, also joined requeté and later served in the army, see Leoncio Barrau Salado entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here, also Boletín Oficial del Estado 20.10.38, available here
  21. ^ Carmen Barrau Salado was married to Manuel Peinado Campara, see Carmen Barrau Salado entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  22. ^ El Liberal 23.01.30, available here
  23. ^ Diario de Cordoba de comercio, industria, administracion, noticias y avisos 18.01.30, available here
  24. ^ ABC 14.06.96, available here
  25. ^ Diario Oficial del Ministerio de la Guerra 12.07.35, available here, also Melchor Ferrer, Historia del tradicionalismo español, vol. XXX, Seville 1979, p. 88
  26. ^ FE 18.08.40, available here, see also Petra García Vélez entry, [in:] Geneanet service, available here
  27. ^ ABC 22.03.73, available here
  28. ^ ABC 14.08.07, available here
  29. ^ No se han notado todas las diligencias en averiguación de los hechos de Montejurra, [in:] El País 12.01.77, available here
  30. ^ compare Directorio General de la Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista (2015), available here
  31. ^ see Aurelio Barrau thread, [in:] Hispanismo service, available here
  32. ^ Directorio General de la Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista (2015), available here
  33. ^ a monograph on Seville Carlism until the early 20th century does not mention any Barrau (except Leoncio as author on booklet on San Agustin convent), Caín Somé Laserna, El tradicionalismo en Sevilla: crisis y renacimiento {PhD thesis Universidad de Sevilla], Sevilla 2016
  34. ^ given Auguste de Barrau served in Spain during the reactionary French intervention among Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
  35. ^ following the fall of Primo de Rivera dictatorship and re-emergence of political parties, the Integrist leader Juan Olazabal appointed Fal jefe of the Andalusian branch of Comisión Tradicionalista-Integrista, ABC 14.06.96, available here
  36. ^ Manuel de Santa Cruz (Alberto Ruiz de Galarreta) Apuntes y documentos para la historia del tradicionalismo español, vol. 23, Madrid 1990, p. 200. Fal was witness at Barrau's wedding in 1940, FE 18.08.40, available here
  37. ^ Leandro Alvarez Rey, La derecha en la II República, Sevilla, 1931-1936, Sevilla 1993, ISBN 9788447201525, p. 146
  38. ^ Francisco Espinosa Maestre, La justicia de Queipo, Madrid 2015, ISBN 9788498923162, p. 233
  39. ^ Ana Marín Fidalgo, Manuel M. Burgueño, In memoriam. Manuel J. Fal Conde (1894-1975), Sevilla 1980, p. 29
  40. ^ Heraldo de Madrid 29.08.32, available here
  41. ^ El Liberal 25.12.32, available here
  42. ^ Heraldo de Madrid 25.01.33, available here
  43. ^ La Nación 26.04.33, available here
  44. ^ together with Fal he displayed an demonstrating anti-governmental banner from the balcony of Centro Tradicionalista, El Siglo Futuro 26.04.33, available here
  45. ^ Martin Blinkhorn, Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931-1939, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 9780521207294, p. 92, also Antonio M. Moral Roncal, La cuestión religiosa en la Segunda República Española: Iglesia y carlismo, Madrid 2009, ISBN 9788497429054, p. 82
  46. ^ El Siglo Futuro 27.05.33, available here
  47. ^ El Siglo Futuro 25.09.33, available here
  48. ^ Juan Ignacio González Orta, Carlistas y falangistas en la provincia de Huelva: de la lucha contra la república al movimiento nacional [PhD thesis Universidad de Huelva], Huelva 2022, pp. 53, 56
  49. ^ Marín Fidalgo, Burgueño 1980, p. 31
  50. ^ Marín Fidalgo, Burgueño 1980, p. 30
  51. ^ e.g. in 1934 he opened the requete section in Huelva, González Orta 2022, p. 71
  52. ^ González Orta 2022, p. 70
  53. ^ La Independencia 17.04.34, available here
  54. ^ Alberto Guallart, Rafael Montesinos: La Memoria Irreparable, Madrid 2007, p. 50, Nicolás Salas, Sevilla fue la clave: república, alzamiento, Guerra Civil (1931-1939), Sevilla 1992, p. 128
  55. ^ El Siglo Futuro 08.01.34, available here
  56. ^ in 1936 it was composed of some 300 men, José Herrera Sánchez, Historia del Tercio de Requetés Virgen de los Reyes de Sevilla, Sevilla 1999, p. 8
  57. ^ Pensamiento alaves 20.03.35, available here
  58. ^ in December 1935 Barrau claimed having command over "500 jóvenes bien entrenados y familiarizados en el use de armas", but scholars doubt this figure, Francisco J. Carmona Obrero, El orden público en Sevilla durante la II República (1931-1936) [PhD thesis Universidad de Sevilla], Sevilla 2009, p. 406
  59. ^ it was awarded collectively to primer Requeté de Sevilla, El Siglo Futuro 13.04.36, available here
  60. ^ details of the enterprise in Roberto Muñoz Bolaños, ‘Por Dios, pod la Patria y el Rey marchemos sobre Madrid’: el intento de sublevación carlista en la primavera de 1936, [in:] Daniel Macia Fernandez, Fernando Puell de la Villa (eds.), David contra Goliat: guerra y asimetría en la edad contemporánea, Madrid 2014, ISBN 9788461705504, pp. 143-170
  61. ^ Ferrer 1979, p. 178, Muñoz Bolaños 2014, p. 163
  62. ^ for Lucien see Boletin Oficial del Estado 20.10.38, available here
  63. ^ Ferrer 1979, p. 188
  64. ^ Julio Aróstegui, Combatientes Requetés en la Guerra Civil española, 1936-1939, Madrid 2013, ISBN 9788499709758, p. 710. However, another scholar in his detailed account of the coup unfolding in Seville does not mention the incident, and claims that requetes started to gather near Barrau's home around 2 PM, and then moved towards the barracks, already controlled by the rebels, to get arms, Rúben Emanuel Leitão Prazeres Serém, Conspiracy, coup d’état and civil war in Seville (1936-1939): History and myth in Francoist Spain [PhD thesis London School of Economics], London 2012, pp. 90, 93
  65. ^ Aróstegui 2013, p. 710. In another version it was the first requete attempt to seize gobierno civil, Leitão Prazeres 2012, pp. 90 (Barrau is erroneously referred to as "Enrique Salado"), 93. Another, ambiguous version, in Juan Carlos Peñas Bernaldo de Quirós, El Carlismo, la República y la Guerra Civil (1936-1937). De la conspiración a la unificación, Madrid 1996, ISBN 8487863523, p. 183
  66. ^ Leitão Prazeres 2012, pp. 90-93
  67. ^ during seizure of San Julián there was only 1 requete injured; historian who refers this episode claims such minor losses resulted from inexperience of the defenders and does not credit the Carlists for good military trainig, Leitão Prazeres 2012, p. 155
  68. ^ Ferrer 1979, p. 190
  69. ^ Barrau lead a squad which detained the 72-year-old Anarchist pedagogue, José Sánchez Rosa, who was later executed, Olivia Carballar, José Sánchez Rosa: la biografía que Carmen Calvo podrá leer este verano, [in:] LaMarea service 16.07.20, available here
  70. ^ at the time a local military (rebel) report described the Andalusian Requeté as a paramilitary organisation “sometida a una disciplina férrea y voluntaria”, used as “fuerzas de choque” and “poseídas del mayor entusiasmo y patriotismo […] voluntarios que se baten por un ideal", quoted after Leitão Prazeres 2012, p. 18
  71. ^ Aróstegui 2013, p. 712
  72. ^ Aróstegui 2013, p. 711
  73. ^ Félix J. Montero Gómez, El Saucejo, 4 de septiembre de 1936: consecuencias de la rebelión militar, El Rubio 2010, pp. 28-30, 724-725, 727
  74. ^ Aróstegui 2013, p. 717
  75. ^ La Unión 14.11.36, available here
  76. ^ Peñas Bernaldo 1996, p. 233
  77. ^ Blinkhorn 2013, p. 276
  78. ^ details in Jaime Ignacio del Burgo Tajadura, Un episodio poco conocido de la guerra civil española. La Real Academia Militar de Requetés y el Destierro de Fal Conde, [in:] Príncipe de Viana 53 (1992), pp. 481-506
  79. ^ Aróstegui 2013, pp. 720-721
  80. ^ Manuel Martorell Pérez, La continuidad ideológica del carlismo tras la Guerra Civil [PhD thesis in Historia Contemporanea, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia], Valencia 2009, p. 37
  81. ^ "guerra contra los azules" as mentioned in his letter of November 19, 1937. He wrote also: "Por aquí se respira carlismo puro, sin transigir ni un ápice; en esto, aunque pocos, no hay quien pueda con nosotros. Las noches las pasamos en la chimenea, explicando nuestras doctrinas y sin dejar de fomentar el espíritu de la Santa Causa; a eso estamos dedicados todo el día y deseando terminar con los rojos para volver para detrás con los azules ... Esto no crea que lo pienso yo; así pensamos todo el Batallón; o mejor, todo el Tercio". On December 31, 1937 he wrote to Fal: "ni cuando esté chocheando se me olvidará este fatídico día 22 de diciembre ... pues así les fastidiamos más a los mandamases que desde que han visto que estamos hechos una piña y desde el último boina roja hasta el capitán Bethancourt pensamos en carlista fino, pues ya van variando de actitud (ante nosotros), aunque no sea más que exteriormente para darnos coba". In a letter signed collectively by all officers of the unit and dated February 15, 1938, they promised "ser carlistas fieles hasta la muerte" and declared themselves "a sus órdenes por ser Vd, el único auténtico jefe de la Comunión Tradicionalista, como representante del Príncipe". One letter even declared the need to get ready for "la futura guerra carlista", quoted after Martorell Pérez 2009, p. 55
  82. ^ e.g. he complained that requetes who underwent officer training were later posted to other, non-Carlist units, Martorell Pérez 2009, p. 70
  83. ^ for an odd episode of requeté unit on parade, with condoms put on rifle-mounted bayonets, see Antonio Burgos, Café para una Infanta carlista, [in:] Memoria de Andalucía service, available here
  84. ^ Boletin Oficial del Estado 20.12.37, available here
  85. ^ Aróstegui 2013, p. 724
  86. ^ Ferrer 1979, p. 88
  87. ^ Aróstegui 2013, p. 725
  88. ^ Aróstegui 2013, p. 725
  89. ^ Pablo Larraz Andía, Víctor Sierra-Sesumaga, Requetés: de las trincheras al olvido, Madrid 2011, ISBN 9788499700465, p. 533
  90. ^ see an obituary leaflet, available here
  91. ^ Boletin Oficial del Estado 10.07.39, available here
  92. ^ BOE 10.07.1939, pp. 3776-3777
  93. ^ Patria. Diario de Falange Española Tradicionalista 07.01.40, p. 5, available here
  94. ^ Memoria general de la 1ª promoción. Convocatorias 1ª y 2ª, 1940-1942, Valladolid 1942, p. 105, available here
  95. ^ some sources confirm his spell of a professional officer, but provide no details, Ferrer 1979, p. 88
  96. ^ Diario Oficial del Ministerio del Ejército 19.01.52, available here
  97. ^ in January 1952 he entered "curso de aptitud para el ascenso", which was normally followed by promotion, Diario Oficial del Ministerio del Ejército 19.01.52
  98. ^ one scholar, decisively hostile to the Nationalists and concerned with dismantling the exalted version of Queipo de Llano seizing Seville with a handful of soldiers, repeatedly refers to requetes as victims of "selective amnesia", Leitão Prazeres 2012, pp. 86, 90
  99. ^ Diario Oficial del Ministerio del Ejército 12.10.61, available here. Some necrological notes claimed he passed away as teniente coronel, Hoja Oficial de Lunes 23.10.61, available here. He might have been promoted posthumously, but no source confirms this
  100. ^ though one work claims that in 1960 he was "jefe provincial de la Comunión Tradicionalista" in Seville, Nicolás Salas, Sevilla en tiempos del Tamarguillo, vol. 2, Sevilla 1995, ISBN 9788480580434, p. 393
  101. ^ compare Francisco Javier Caspistegui Gorasurreta, El carlismo: transformación y permanencia del franquismo a la democracia (1962–1977), [PhD thesis Universidad de Navarra] 1996, Manuel Martorell Pérez, La continuidad ideológica del carlismo tras la Guerra Civil [PhD thesis UNED], Valencia 2009, Ramón María Rodón Guinjoan, Invierno, primavera y otoño del carlismo (1939–1976) [PhD thesis Universitat Abat Oliba CEU], Barcelona 2015, Daniel Jesús García Riol, La resistencia tradicionalista a la renovación ideológica del carlismo (1965–1973) [PhD thesis UNED], Madrid 2015 (and their commercially released versions), Aurora Villanueva Martínez, El carlismo navarro durante el primer franquismo, 1937–1951, Madrid 1998, ISBN 9788487863714
  102. ^ Miguel Ángel Collado Aguilar, La Guerra Civil y la represión franquista en la Cuenca Minera de Riotinto [PhD thesis Universidad de Huelva], Huelva 2018 p. 394
  103. ^ see their correspondence in the Manuel Fal Conde archive at the University of Navarre, available here
  104. ^ Santa Cruz 1990, p. 200
  105. ^ his military superior Luis Redondo write on Barrau: “Militar por afición y convencimiento, dadas las circunstancias de España, tiene intuición valentía y arrojo en el combate. Brusco e intemperante y, al mismo tiempo, comunicativo y amigo de dar bromas, ha de meterse con todos, con gracejo, y sabe distinguir y sacar a cada uno la parte que puede para pasar el rato. Es por otra parte de corazón tierno y fácil para las lágrimas cuando de los asuntos del Requeté se trata. Ha sido alma del Requeté en los primeros tiempos de la campaña y el brazo derecho fiel y firme del Jefe del Tradicionalismo en España, Don Manuel Fal Conde y del Jefe indiscutible en lo militar, en Andalucía, Teniente Coronel Redondo. Fué [sic] Capitán del primer Requeté de Sevilla y en la actualidad sirve con abnegación a España y al Tradicionalismo en el cargo de Comandante”
  106. ^ Javier Lavardín, Historia del ultimo pretendiente a la corona de España, Paris 1976, p. 78
  107. ^ Marín Fidalgo, Burgueño 1980, p. 56
  108. ^ Invitación a fiesta del Quintillo por Enrique Barrau Salado, [in:] PARES service, available here
  109. ^ Lavardin 1976, p. 85, Manuel de Santa Cruz [Alberto Ruiz de Galarreta], Apuntes y documentos para la historia del tradicionalismo español, vol. 22 (I), Madrid 1990, pp. 166-167
  110. ^ he wrote: "No nos asustan ni nos cogen de sorpresa estas actitudes: son muchas las veces que nuestros enemigos han extendido la papeleta de defunción del Carlismo, y en todas ellas siempre ha vuelto a resurgir con más ímpetu y virilidad, con mayor espíritu si cabe, mientras que los enterrados fueron los enterradores. Sabemos sufrir y sabemos esperar ... Es preciso, mis queridos amigos, que vuestros hijos aprendan la lección de sacrificio que nos imponen, renunciando a nuestro Quintillo, por el solo delito de seguir siendo fieles a nuestra Causa .. No cedamos en nuestra fe y entusiasmo. Si este año no pueden reunirse los 15.000 carlistas que tenían anunciada su concentración en Quintillo, que sean 15.000 oraciones pidiendo fuerzas al Señor para que nos otorgue la gracia de la perseverancia y el triunfo de la Santa Bandera", quoted after Nicolás Salas, Formación del «Cinturón de la Miseria» sevillano, [in:] El Correo de Andalucía 10.06.17, available here
  111. ^ El Adelantado 05.10.61, available here
  112. ^ Santa Cruz 1990, p. 200
  113. ^ in 1965, Montejurra 7 (1965), pp. 4-5
  114. ^ in an obituary note by Francisco Elías de Tejada, see Enrique Barrau Salado, [in:] Boina Roja 67 (1961), available here
  115. ^ see e.g. A pie y sin dinero. Diario de un soldado profile on FB, available here, La Columna Redondo, [in:] Carlismo Andaluz service, available here, Carlistas Andaluces, [in:] Hispanismo service, available here
  116. ^ Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Internacionales. Cuando aún quedan ganas de música, [in:] Threadreader service, available here
 
commanders of Andalusian requete, Barrau standing 2fL

Further reading edit

  • Bernabé Copado, Con la Columna Redondo: combates y conquistas; crónica de guerra, Sevilla 1937
  • José Herrera Sánchez, Historia del Tercio de Requetés Virgen de los Reyes de Sevilla, Sevilla 1999
  • Ana Marín Fidalgo, Manuel Martín Burgueño, Enrique Roldán González, El Requeté De Sevilla, Sevilla 1982
  • Rúben Emanuel Leitão Prazeres Serém, Conspiracy, coup d’état and civil war in Seville (1936-1939): History and myth in Francoist Spain [PhD thesis London School of Economics], London 2012

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