Aranda

Aranda, PEDRO DE BOLEA, COUNT OF, born in 1718 of a distinguished Aragonese family, at first embraced a military career, but was appointed ambassador to the court of Poland (1759), governor of Valencia (1763), and president of the Council of Castile (1766). Aranda not only soon restored order in the capital, but limited the power of the Inquisition, procured the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain, and suppressed the banditti of the Sierra Morena. In 1773 he was removed from his high position through the influence of the clergy, and sent as ambassador to France. Recalled in 1792, he had soon to retire to his own estates, where he died in 1799.