Pascual Comín Moya

Pascual Comín Moya, 2nd marquess of Comín (1855–1928) was a Spanish Carlist politician. Since the mid-1890s he formed part of the provincial Zaragoza party executive and the Traditionalist regional Aragón leadership; since 1907 he was the party leader in the region of Aragón. His political climax fell on 1919, when during 6 months between mid-February and mid-August he held the provisional Carlist party jefatura nationwide. Until today his leadership period remains the shortest one in the entire Carlist history.

Pascual Comín Moya
Born	Pascual Comín Moya 1855 Zaragoza, Spain
Died	1928 Zaragoza, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	lawyer
Known for	politician
Political party	Carlism

Family and youth

 

Bienvenido Comín

Origins of the Comín family are obscure.^[1] One branch settled in Aragón, but until mid-19th century none of its representatives gained public recognition. Pascual's paternal grandfather sided with the legitimists during the First Carlist War; following defeat he settled in Bordeaux.^[2] This is where his son and the father of Pascual, Bienvenido Comín Sarté (1828-1880), spent his late childhood.^[3] In 1842 he returned to Spain and studied law; in 1848 he started to practice in Zaragoza.^[4] In the mid-1850s Comín Sarté engaged in Carlist conspiracy himself; following the Aragonese rebellion of 1855^[5] he went on exile again. Back in Spain he gained local recognition as “el abogado de los pobres” and served in the Zaragoza ayuntamiento.^[6] In the late 1860s he became president of Junta Provincial Católico-Monárquica, emerged as key Carlist theorist^[7] and laid out the legal claim of Carlos VII;^[8] the pretender rewarded him with the title of Marqués de Comín.^[9] Exiled again during the Third Carlist War,^[10] in the late 1870s he was among most distinguished Carlist intellectuals of the era^[11] and one of the best-known lawyers in Aragón.^[12]

Bienvenido Comín married^[13] Luciana Moya Huerto (died 1896);^[14] none of the sources consulted provides any information either on her or on her family. The couple had 3 children: Pascual (born 1855), Francisco Javier (1857)^[15] and María Comín y Moya (1862),^[16] all brought up in very religious and zealously Traditionalist ambience.^[17] It is not clear where the young Pascual received his early education. He then enrolled in Facultad de Derecho at the University of Zaragoza; exact years of his academic career are not known, though they fell probably on the early 1870s.^[18] Comín Moya obtained the licenciatura in law in Zaragoza, to pursue his doctoral research at Universidad Central in Madrid later on;^[19] the year of his doctorado is not clear. In the late 1870s he was back in Zaragoza,^[20] where he soon opened his own law office.

 

Jesús Comín

At unspecified time Pascual Comín Moya married María de Arévalo y Aguilar;^[21] there is no information on her or her family available. It is neither clear whether the couple had any children. When referred in societé columns of the press, e.g. in the 1890s, they are listed along nephews and other relatives, but never with own children;^[22] also later notes on Comín's family engagements do not contain information on his children.^[23] Comín's obituaries and death notices, which customarily contained condolences addressed to descendants, did not mention any.^[24] Marquesado de Comín, which Pascual inherited from his father, passed on to his younger brother.^[25] A few of Comín's relatives grew to public figures. Pascual's younger brother Francisco Javier became an academic and served as dean of the law faculty in Zaragoza;^[26] his son and Pascual's nephew Jesús Comín y Sagüés emerged as Carlist politician and served in the Republican Cortes.^[27] The son of Jesús Alfonso Carlos Comín Ros gained name as a writer and politician who tried to merge Communism and Catholicism, while his son Antoni Comín Oliveres is a Catalanist separatist politician.

Earlier public activity (prior to 1907)

 

Ramon Nocedal

As descendant to two generations of Carlists and as son to one of the greatest Traditionalist theorists of the time, Comín inherited his political outlook from the ancestors. Already as a 10-year-old boy he was listed in various open letters which supported the Catholic cause;^[28] in his teens he delivered addresses during local gatherings and while at the university he engaged in the religious charity organisation Asociación San Luis Gonzaga.^[29] His whereabouts during the Third Carlist War are not clear. In the late 1870s^[30] and early 1880s^[31] his name kept appearing among signatories of various declarations of support or protest letters, usually related to religious questions and perceived anti-Catholic measures of the Madrid government. In the early 1880s Comín acted as president of Juventud Católica de Zaragoza^[32] and used to deliver militant addresses at its meetings.^[33]

Comín's focus on religious issues seemed perfectly in line with the strategy adopted by the Carlist political leader, Candido Nocedal; Comín travelled to Madrid to take part in related events.^[34] Following death of Nocedal, in the mid-1880s Comín seemed supportive of his son Ramón Nocedal,^[35] who aspired to vacated party leadership.^[36] However, upon outbreak of the conflict between Nocedal and the claimant Carlos VII Comín sided with his king and did not join the Integrists, who broke away in 1888.^[37] In the early 1890s Comín was active in quasi-political activities animated by the Church, which at the time turned towards wider public mobilization: he took part in Congreso Católico de Zaragoza^[38] and formed part of a commission appointed by the archbishop, entrusted with screening local periodicals and propagating Catholic virtues in the press.^[39] In 1893 latest he entered Junta Provincial Carlista de Zaragoza, the provincial party executive;^[40] in 1895 he was reported as member of Junta Regional, the body which commanded Carlist structures in entire Aragón.^[41]

 

Carlos VII

At the turn of the centuries Comín was already a recognized Zaragoza personality. He formed part of executive of the local charity organisations La Protectora,^[42] remained active in anti-duel association^[43] and took part in numerous in one-off events, e.g. the one intended to prevent tuberculosis.^[44] A recognized specialist in local heritage law,^[45] he was delivering lectures at congresses of Aragón lawyers.^[46] A royal decree which created a nationwide Comisión General de Codificación nominated him to sub-commission entrusted with work on specific legal Aragón establishments.^[47] He served as counselor in the ayuntamiento,^[48] member of Audiencia Provincial^[49] and fiscal de la cámara de apelaciones,^[50] specializing in criminal law. He handled prestigious legal cases and represented local personalities in civil lawsuits.^[51] His career in jurisprudence was crowned when in 1907 Comín grew to dean of the Zaragoza Colegio de Abogados.^[52]

From regional to national leader (1907-1919)

 

Bartolome Feliu

Since the 1870s the Aragón party leader was the military old-timer Francisco Cavero; however, in the 1890s he was already withdrawing into senility. The regional jefatura went to the young Duque de Solferino; as he moved to Catalonia the role was then handed to the veteran landowner Manuel Serrano Franquini. Following his death in 1906^[53] the position was vacant; among candidates to take over there was José María del Campo, Cavero's son Francisco and the young Marqués de las Hormazas. None of them, however, compared to Comín in terms of prestige and professional position; in 1907 he was appointed the new Aragon jefe regional.^[54]

Much of Comín's party activity was routine administrative and propaganda work. He was present at openings of new círculos,^[55] handed standards to existing units,^[56] greeted the party leader Feliú^[57] or infanta Beatriz in Zaragoza,^[58] headed meetings and rallies,^[59] launched a party periodical El Pensamiento Aragonés,^[60] signed various open letters^[61] or issued electoral recommendations.^[62] Since pre-war times Aragón have failed to elect a Carlist candidate to the Cortes; Comín tried to revert the trend when running from Tarazona in 1910,^[63] but he failed;^[64] this was his only bid for the parliament. In 1912 he had to deal with discipline problems and disauthorised a group named “Lealtad Jaimista”;^[65] details of the conflict are not clear.^[66] The same year he first met his new king Don Jaime in person as he travelled to Saint Jean de Luz.^[67] Also in 1912 he was nominated to Junta Superior Central, a newly created 15-member national Carlist executive.^[68] Since then he started travelling to Madrid; in 1913 Comín was nominated to a sub-section named comisión de defensa jurídica.^[69] Some sources claim he ceased as regional jefe in 1914.^[70] Comín is credited for efficient organizational work and contribution to development of Carlist network in Aragón.^[71]

 

Don Jaime and de Mella

In the mid-1910s Carlism was divided between followers of the theorist Juan Vázquez de Mella and the claimant; the former advocated a grand ultra-right alliance, the latter demanded loyalty based on own monarchic claim.^[72] Moreover, the Mellistas sympathized with Central Powers, the claimant tended to favor the Entente, while the party political leader Marqués de Cerralbo, aging and tired, was unable to take a firm stand. Comín remained a resolute Germanophile,^[73] but he did not encourage the Mellista campaign and maintained loyalty to the claimant, himself incommunicado in sort of a house arrest in Austria.^[74] When the First World War ended in early 1919 Don Jaime travelled to Paris; he immediately dismissed all leadership including Cerralbo's interim successor, Cesareo Sanz Escartín. De Mella left to build his own organisations and numerous top leaders joined him. As the party command layer was decimated by defections^[75] and many older tycoons seemed bewildered,^[76] there were few to choose from when looking for a new leader.^[77] Though Comín was not particularly active in nationwide party executive, in mid-February 1919 Don Jaime appointed him secretario general, a de facto political Carlist leader in Spain;^[78] Comín accepted the nomination given it was a temporary stopgap measure.^[79]

Secretario General (Feb-Aug 1919)

 

Don Jaime, 1910s

Shortly following nomination Comín travelled to France to discuss the way forward with the claimant.^[80] In early March he was back in Spain and proceeded to sort out most urgent personal matters; he ceded the Aragón leadership to a collegial makeshift body,^[81] set up a new Catalan jefatura^[82] and tried to re-organize command layer in other regions. Following few months of conciliatory tactics, in May 1919 Comín dissolved all regional juntas and dismissed all leaders who held their posts prior to February. However, only in few cases he managed to appoint the new ones;^[83] the wave of defections to the Mellista camp decimated high- and mid-range leaders. He did not tolerate fence-sitters; also in May Comín disauthorised another theorist and intellectual, Víctor Pradera, who until then maintained an ambiguous stand.^[84] One more thread was fight for the party infrastructure and preventing its takeover by the rebels. It proved victorious, as the Jaimistas retained control over 3 key newspapers, El Correo Español, El Pensamiento Navarro and El Correo Catalan;^[85] the rebels were forced to build their press mouthpiece from scratch.

On the external propaganda front Comín downplayed the impact of the Mellista secession. In public he presented the breakup not as a clash of different concepts and strategies, but merely as a result of disciplinary action taken against some dissenting militants. In wake of rising Catalanism he underlined the regionalist profile of Carlism. He also presented the movement as the party of order, which stabilized political life and prevented social radicalism. Referring to increasing chaos and lawlessness he pointed to republican Lerrouxism and violent Anarchism as to responsible forces, and once again offered Carlism as the only force capable of confronting revolution and disorder.^[86] The first major test of these maneuvers was the general election of June; Comín did not stand and limited himself to general co-ordination. The campaign turned disastrous;^[87] while in 1918 the Jaimistas got 9 MPs, in 1919 they managed to have only 3 candidates elected; the breakaway Mellistas also elected 3 candidates.^[88]

 

Carlist standard

In the summer of 1919 Comín, apart from his routine professional engagements and work for the Zaragoza ayuntamiento,^[89] shuttled across Spain not only to Madrid but also to other regional capitals;^[90] moreover, he visited the claimant in France.^[91] Comín's relations with his king were turning sour; Comín detested the claimant's personal secretary, Francisco Melgar, whom he charged with numerous intrigues and promotion of the Francophile group of activists. One of them was supposedly Melchor Ferrer, appointed by the claimant as the new manager of the unofficial Carlist press mouthpiece, El Correo Español. Comín requested written confirmation of the nomination and remained highly skeptical about the “afrancesado” Ferrer;^[92] possibly together with some Navarrese he tried to block his nomination.^[93] Eventually when speaking to Don Jaime he pointed to his own age, declared himself unable to remain during long spells in Madrid^[94] and resigned;^[95] in mid-August 1919 the resignation was accepted and made public.^[96]

Late public engagements (1919-1928)

 

Magna Junta de Biarritz, 1919

Following resignation Comín did not withdraw into the second row and remained moderately active in the Carlist command layer. His engagements were very much directed against Melgar,^[97] whom Don Jaime initially envisioned as the party political leader.^[98] Before resignation Comín recommended that his successor as secretario general be Luis Hernando de Larramendi, also a Germanophile and the politician he earlier co-operated with during numerous social initiatives in Zaragoza. Eventually the claimant agreed to appoint Larramendi,^[99] but Comín went on with his anti-Melgar crusade.^[100] The campaign proved successful and Melgar did not take part in a grand Jaimista meeting dubbed Magna Junta de Biarritz, staged in November 1919; it is not clear whether he was not invited or aware that spirits against him were running high, he withdrew. Comín himself telegraphed his adhesion, but did not participate;^[101] the meeting was supposed to set the direction of the new, post-Mellista Carlism.^[102]

In early 1920 Comín grew even more skeptical about Don Jaime and the perceived Francophile intriguers in his entourage, reportedly still led by Melgar. He and a group of Basque-Navarrese leaders, including Hormazas, Joaquín Beunza, Tomás Domínguez Arévalo and Julian Elorza Aizpuru, addressed the claimant with a letter. They declared utter loyalty to the cause and to Don Jaime; nevertheless, in ultimative tone they demanded that “funesta y perjudicial” influence of Melgar and his men be reduced, with specific references to management of El Correo Español. The signatories hinted that otherwise, they would be forced to “reduciéndonos a rendir culto a nuestros principios en la intimidad de nuestros hogares”. As their positive recipé to prevent marginalization of the party^[103] they demanded setup of a party collective executive, which would consist of representatives of every region. There was no reply and in mid-February the letter was made public; Comín and some other signatories resigned their posts.^[104]

After 1920 there is no information on any Comín's engagements in the Carlist ranks and it seems that he indeed “cultivated Traditionalist principles in the privacy of his home”. He went on with his professional juridical duties, either representing clients in private lawsuits^[105] or acting as assessor for the Zaragoza ayuntamiento;^[106] he might have performed some roles in the city council itself.^[107] In 1923 he was noted as representing the University during a local act,^[108] though his exact relation to the Zaragoza alma mater has not been established and he is not known to have ever undertaken a teaching role.^[109] None of the sources consulted confirms Comín's public activity during the Primo de Rivera dictatorship. His death was acknowledged in merely a handful of newspapers,^[110] including few national ones;^[111] he was noted as notable Aragón lawyer and former Carlist executive, though some obituaries confused Comín with his brother Francisco Javier.^[112]

See also

• Traditionalism
• Carlism
• Jesus Comin Sagues

Footnotes

1. some claim that it arrived in Spain from Italy, see Comín entry, [in:] MisApellidos service, available here
2. Comín y Sarté, Bienvenido, [in:] Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa online, available here. His name is unknown. A Tomás Comín, former member of Voluntarios Realistas, was involved in Carlist conspiracy in Zaragoza in the 1830s and was subject to repressive governmental measures, see La Revista Española 23.03.34, available here
3. it is not clear what – if any – was the family relationship between Bienvenido Comín Sarté (born 1828) and Pascual Comín Vera (born 1825), both active in Zaragoza. Pascual Comín Vera was a doctor and professor of medicine; he grew to prestige as both a physician and a scientist, for details see Comín Vera, Pascual 1825-1875, [in:] Medicos historicos. Biblioteca Complutense service, available here
4. Comín y Sarté, Bienvenido, [in:] Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa online
5. details in Antonio Caridad Salvador, El carlismo aragonés en armas. La revuelta de 1855, [in:] Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea 36 (2014), pp. 165-188, also B. de Artagan [Reynaldo Brea], Príncipe heróico y soldados leales, Barcelona 191, p. 247
6. Comín y Sarté, Bienvenido, [in:] Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa online
7. his key work was a 1870 treaty La política tradicional de España. Writings of Comín Sarté contained a European breadth and discussed also continental issues. He was also the author of novels; one of them, Virgén y mártir, was published in 1876, another named Angela remained in manuscript, see e.g. Jacek Bartyzel, Nic bez Boga, nic wbrew tradycji, Radzymin 2015, ISBN 9788360748732, p. 90
8. Jacek Bartyzel, Umierać ale powoli, Kraków 2002, ISBN 8386225742, p. 264
9. Títulos carlistas, [in:] AlasCatacumbas blog 31.08.08 [blogspot service blocked by WP]
10. Artagan 1912, p. 249
11. Comín Sarté published also works on history of literature, see e.g. his Catolicismo y racionalismo. Historia general de la literatura católica del siglo XIX, 2 vols. Some authors present him as one of the greatest Traditionalist pundits of the 1870s along Aparisi, Villoslada and Tejado, La Esperanza 22.01.70, available here
12. he served as vice-president of Congreso de Jurisconsultos Aragoneses
13. La Ilustración Católica 07.02.80, available here
14. El Correo Español 14.02.96, available here
15. La Ilustración Católica 07.02.80, available here
16. La Ilustración Católica 07.02.80, available here
17. already in 1865 and as a 10-year-old boy he appeared as signatory and donator in open letters and other religious initiatives, El Pensamiento Español 08.08.65, available here
18. Third Carlist War broke out in 1872, when Comín was 17 years old. However, none of the sources consulted claims or suggests he took part in the conflict
19. José Ignacio Lópes Susín, Gente de leyes. El derecho Aragonés y sus protagonistas, Zaragoza 2004, ISBN 8483241870, p. 140
20. El Siglo Futuro 19.07.77, available here
21. Pascual Comín Moya, [in:] Real Academia de Historia service, available here
22. La Libertad 18.08.97, available here
23. El Debate 21.04.23, available here
24. La Prensa 22.03.28, available here, also Diario de Reus 23.03.28, available here
25. as the title awarded by the Carlist claimant, for 91 years it was not recognized officially. This changed in 1961, see BOE 28.11.61, available here; the Francoist authorities recognized the marquesado and attributed to José María Comín Sagues
26. Comín Moya, Francisco Javier (1857-1932), [in:] Diccionario de Catedráticos Españoles de Derecho, available here
27. Comín Sagues, Jesus, [in:] Congreso service, available here
28. El Pensamiento Español 08.09.65, available here
29. El Siglo Futuro 19.07.77, available here
30. El Siglo Futuro 11.04.77, available here
31. El Católico 28.03.80, available here
32. El Siglo Futuro 26.04.80, available here
33. El Siglo Futuro 23.04.80, available here
34. El Siglo Futuro 09.01.85, available herel
35. El Siglo Futuro 04.02.87, available herel
36. La Verdad 29.05.85, available here
37. Bartyzel 2002, p. 90
38. Diario de Cataluña 10.09.90, available here
39. La Paz 07.10.90, available here
40. El Correo Español 04.05.93, available here
41. El Correo Español 30.09.85, available here
42. 1897 La Protectora formed “empresa de redenciones militares y de seguros dotales”; Comín was member of its junta consultiva, La Voz de Provincia 24.11.97, available here
43. La Epoca 10.07.05, available here
44. Diario de Córdoba 26.02.04, available here
45. in 1880 during Congreso de Jurisconsultos Aragoneses Comín delivered a lecture on consorcio foral, a specific Aragonese civil law institution related to inheritance regulations, part of “cuestion foral”, Mauricio Murillo y García-Atance, Colación y participación, [in:] Manual de derecho sucesorio aragonés, Zaragoza 2006, ISBN 8493472212, p. 157
46. for 1907 congress see La Correspondencia de España 28.05.07, available here
47. Lópes Susín 2004, p. 140
48. Lópes Susín 2004, pp. 140-141
49. Anuario Riera 1904, available here
50. Julio Irazusta, Memorias: historia de un historiador a la fuerza, Madrid 1975, p. 85
51. e.g. in 1888 Comín represented duque de Villahermosa in legal case related to land ownership and access, La Crónica 10.03.88, available here
52. Revista Aragonesa 4 (1907), available here
53. El Porvenir 24.01.06, available here
54. El Correo Español 08.07.07, available here
55. for 1908 see El Correo Español 19.05.08, available here, for 1911 see El Correo Español 25.01.11, available here
56. El Salmantino 08.06.12, available here
57. El Correo Español 28.06.09, available here
58. El Sol 20.06.18, available here
59. e.g. when 1909 heading a Carlist meering in Zaragoza formattedf as homage to the memory of late Carlos VII, Comín hailed the deceased king as the one who opposed revolution, El Restaurador 30.11.09, available here
60. Pascual Comín Moya, [in:] Real Academia de Historia service, available here
61. La Victoria 12.03.10, available here
62. La Correspondencia de España 09.11.11, available here
63. La Rioja 23.10.10, available here
64. La Correspondencia de España 09.05.10, available here
65. in April 1912 the party leader Feliu asked Comín to disauthorize a Zaragoza group named Lealtad Jaimista, El Correo Español 29.04.12, available here
66. following disauthorization the claimant thanked Comín and praised his discipline, La Tradición 15.06.12, available here
67. in 1912 Comín travelled to Saint Jean de Luz to meet his king in person for the first time, Diario de Valencia 06.05.12, available here
68. Agustín Fernández Escudero, El Marqués de Cerralbo (1845-1922): biografía política [PhD thesis Universidad Complutense], Madrid 2012, p. 443
69. El Eco de Santiago 31.01.13, available here
70. Pascual Comín Moya, [in:] Real Academia de Historia service, available here
71. Pascual Comín Moya, [in:] Real Academia de Historia service, available here
72. details in Juan Ramón de Andrés Martín, El cisma mellista: historia de una ambición política, Madrid 2000, ISBN 9788487863820. Comín was not a major protagonist in the conflict; the work quoted does not refer him a single time
73. Melchor Ferrer, Historia del tradicionalismo español, vol. XXIX, Sevilla 1960, p. 112
74. Ferrer 1960, p. 113
75. among members of Junta Central, the Carlist collegial execitive, the regional leaders who defected to the Mellistas were Cesareo Sanz Escartín (Navarre), Manuel Simó (Valencia), Tirso Olazábal (Vasconagadas) and José Díez de la Cortina (Andalusia); also José Ampuero, one of few Carlist senators, broke away
76. marquess de Cerralbo was tired and determined to withdraw, Duque de Solferino (Catalan leader) also filed his resignation, Joaquín Llorens since 1914 remained at uneasy terms with the claimant, Rafael Díaz Aguado was disoriented and vacillated, Pedro Llosas Badía declared himself neutral
77. conde de Rodezno (leader of New Castile) was approaching senility while his son Tomás Domínguez Arevalo lacked sufficient seniority, an aged senator Manuel Bofarull remained a spent force, others - e.g. Mariano Zaforteza, the Baleares jefé – either lacked sufficient political weight or represented minor regions
78. La Correspondencia de España 17.02.19, available here
79. Ferrer 1960, p. 119
80. Diario de Valencia 19.02.19, available here
81. Comín nominated “una ponencia” with Minguijón, Miral and Lamana, La Correspondencia de España 03.03.19, available here
82. Comín nominated “una ponencia” with Minguijón, Miral and Lamana, La Correspondencia de España 03.03.19, available here
83. Correspondencia de España 07.05.19, available here
84. Correspondencia de España 21.05.19, available here
85. Jordi Canal, El carlismo, Madrid 2000, ISBN 8420639478, p. 274
86. Correspondencia de España 12.03.19, available here
87. Pascual Comín Moya, [in:] Real Academia de Historia service, available here
88. apart from 3 MPs, the Jaimists got also 1 senator elected, Canal 2000, p. 274
89. ABC 22.03.28, available here
90. in May 1919 Comín presided over a meeing in Pamplona, El Salmantino 05.05.19, available here; in July 1919 ge presided over a Carlist banquet in Aragón, La Correspondencia de España 25.07.19, available here
91. in March 1919 Comín embarked on a new journey to Paris, El Salmantino 24.03.19, available here
92. Ferrer 1960, p. 114. Ferrer considered Comín “hombre franco y also rudo. Tenía la rudeza de quien no oculta su pensamiento. Otro defecto, había sido siempre opuesto a Minguijón”, Ferrer 1960, p. 113
93. El Salmantino 05.05.19, available here
94. Fernández Escudero 2012, p. 514
95. Fernández Escudero 2012, p. 509
96. El Pueblo 17.08.19, available here. Comín's term as the Carlist leader (0,5 years) was the shortest ever Carlist leadership term, after Fal (21,3 years), Valiente (13,9), Villores (10,9), Barrio (9,7), Cerralbo 1st term (9,3), Cerralbo 2nd term (5,8), Nocedal (5,0), Palomino (3,4), Feliu (3,0), Larramendi (2,0), Rodezno (1,9), Sanz Escartin (0,8)
97. Ferrer 1960, p. 112
98. Ferrer 1960, pp. 115, 119-120, Fernández Escudero 2012, p. 514
99. Ferrer 1960, p. 119
100. Ferrer 1960, p. 114
101. Juan Maria Roma (ed.), Album historico del carlismo, Barcelona 1933, p. 285
102. Ferrer 1960, p. 128
103. Comín declared that “nuestro glorioso partido histórico” was at the moment “reducido y desalentado”, and that “dejaremos de ser factor en la vida nacional”, La Reconquista 07.02.20, available here
104. La Reconquista 07.02.20, available here
105. La Libertad 30.11.21, available here
106. La Vanguardia 03.12.21, available here
107. ABC 22.03.28, available here
108. La Vanguardia 09.06.23, available here
109. one author claims that he was “catedrático de la Universidad de Zaragoza”, Melchor Ferrer, Breve historia del legitimismo español, Sevilla 1958, p. 102. The same claim in Gabriel Alférez Callejón, Historia del carlismo, Madrid 1995, ISBN 9788487863394, p. 226
110. La Prensa 22.03.28, available here, Diario de Reus 23.03.28, available here
111. ABC 22.03.28, available here
112. a nationwide daily claimed that Comín „era un notable publicista”, ABC 22.03.28, available here. No Comín’s publication has been identified, while his brother published numerous works

Further reading

• Agustín Fernández Escudero, El Marqués de Cerralbo (1845-1922): biografía política [PhD thesis Universidad Complutense], Madrid 2012
• Melchor Ferrer, Historia del tradicionalismo español, vol. XXIX, Sevilla 1960

External links

• Comin at Real Academia de Historia service
• Comin at Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa service