His claims passed to the daughter of his cousin, Salvador, Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide. Iturbide was the son of Emperor Agustin I"s second son His (or Her) Highness Prince Don Ángel Maria de Iturbide y Huarte (2 October 1816 – 21 July 1872) and his American wife Alice Green (ca 1836 – 1892), granddaughter of United States Congressman and Revolutionary War General
Georgetown University.
After the death of Maximilian he became Head of the Imperial House of Mexico, but had no children. Uriah Forrest and great-granddaughter of George Plater, Governor of Maryland. Her older sister, Elizabeth Rousby Green, (married name Elizabeth Quesensberry) b. ca.
1825 became a historical footnote when President Lincoln"s assassin John Wilkes Booth arrived at her house after crossing the Potomac River on his escape route.
Had Booth managed to flee the country, his hope had been to seek asylum in Mexico. When Maximilian and Carlota ascended the throne of Mexico in 1863 with the support of the French troops of Napoleon III, the new monarchs invited the Iturbide family back to Mexico.
As it became clear that Maximilian and Carlota could have no children together, they offered to adopt Iturbide, which was agreed to with enthusiasm by his father and reluctance by his mother. They formally named Iturbide their heir on 13 September 1865, with the title His Highness, Prince de Iturbide.
With the overthrow of the second Mexican empire in 1867, Iturbide"s biological parents took him first to England and then back to the United States, where they settled in Washington, District of Columbia When he came of age, Iturbide, who had been graduated from Georgetown University, renounced his claim to the throne and title and returned to Mexico.
He then served as an officer in the Mexican army. But in 1890, after publishing articles critical of President Porfirio Díaz, he was arrested on charges of sedition and sentenced to fourteen months of imprisonment. After release from prison, Iturbide was sent into exile, where he suffered two severe nervous breakdowns that resulted in his believing that he would be assassinated.
Eventually he returned to Georgetown University, as a professor of the Spanish and French languages.
Agustín de Iturbide y Green died in 1925 in Washington, District of Columbia, after suffering a serious nervous and physical breakdown.
