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The House of Bourbon (Spain) in the historical Almanach de Gotha, 1872–1924

This page traces how the House of Bourbon (Spain) appears across the editions of the Almanach de Gotha held as OCR scans by GOTHA, from 1872 to 1924 [1]. It uses only two things: GOTHA's table of house appearances, built by parsing those scans, and the scans themselves [1]. Nothing is filled in from other sources.

What the editions show

• Editions found: 47 (1872, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924) [1].
• Printed heading: the house is entered under “Espagne” [1]. These are the headings as printed (and as read by OCR), not GOTHA's names for the house.
• Part: in 44 of the 47 editions, the page's running head places the entry in the Almanach's Part I; in 3 the running head was not found near the entry [1]. "Part I" here is the edition's own printed division, cited to the line of the running head; it is not one of GOTHA's own house categories.
• The sovereign named: each quote was checked by hand on 1 November 2026 against the OCR text in sources/ocr (the scan images themselves are linked in the sources). A quote is kept only where the line is the entry of the reigning head as printed; lines that caught another family member, the founder, a succession clause or a note were removed. Quotes are raw OCR: letters and regnal numbers may be misread, and those rows are marked ⚠.

Note on sources. OCR misreads letters (for example "Liechteiistein" for Liechtenstein). GOTHA's appearance table was corrected on 1 November 2026; its part tags now agree with the printed running head in every row where both exist; this page follows the running head and cites its line. Rows marked ⚠ carry a visible OCR doubt.

Edition by edition

Licence: this article is original GOTHA text, released under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The Almanach scans are public-domain editions held by the Internet Archive; OCR lines are quoted briefly.