Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican royalist turned insurgent; first emperor of Mexico (died 1824)

Agustín de Iturbide

Mexican army general and politician, 1st emperor of Mexico

Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu, commonly known as Agustín de Iturbide and later by his regnal name Agustín I, was the first Emperor of Mexico from 1822 until his abdication in 1823. An officer in the royal Spanish army, during the Mexican War of Independence he…