José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca

José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca (1728–1808), was the reforming chief minister of Charles III of Spain. He became a criminal prosecutor in Castile in 1766 and investigated the Esquilache Riots. He backed the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 and, as envoy to Pope Clement XIV, secured the suppression of the Jesuits and his countship in 1773.

Chief minister from 1777, he freed colonial trade and founded the Bank of San Carlos in 1782, the year Spain recovered Menorca and Florida from Britain. Ousted in 1792, he was imprisoned until 1795. He died in 1808 heading the Supreme Central Junta against Napoleon.