This ruler took the throne based on the Treaty of the XVIII (“eighteen”) Articles, which was unfavorably revised into the Treaty of the XXIV (“twenty-four”) Articles. This ruler regained an occupied city in a siege that used the 24-inch “Monster Mortar” and was led by Baron Haxo. This ruler was called the “Nestor of Europe” for his diplomacy and familial marriage brokerages, such as that of his nephew Ferdinand II to Maria II of Portugal. This ruler accepted and then declined a throne created by the Protocol of London, letting Otto of Bavaria be chosen as king of Greece. The accession of this ruler, whose first wife was Charlotte of Wales, led to an invasion of his country in the Ten Days’ Campaign. This ruler took the throne after a nationalistic revolution that was allegedly caused by a performance of the opera The Mute Girl of Portici (“POR-tee-chee”) in 1830. For 10 points, what member of the House of Saxe-Coburg (“SOX-uh KOH-burg”) served as the first king of the Belgians? ■END■
ANSWER: Leopold I of Belgium [or Leopold I, King of the Belgians; or Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; prompt on Leopold] (The second sentence describes the 1832 Siege of Antwerp after the Belgian Revolution.)
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