Isabel Riquelme

María Isabel Riquelme de la Barrera y Meza (1758 – April 21, 1839), was the mother of Chilean independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins. Isabel Riquelme was of Basque descent.[1]

Isabel Riquelme
First Lady of Chile
In role
17 February 1817  28 January 1823
PresidentBernardo O'Higgins
Personal details
Born
María Isabel Riquelme de la Barrera y Meza

1758 (1758)
Chillán, Chile
DiedApril 21, 1839(1839-04-21) (aged 80–81)
Lima, Peru
NationalityChilean
Spouse(s)
Félix Rodríguez y Rojas
(m. 1780; died 1782)

Manuel de Puga y Figueroa
Children
ParentsSimón Riquelme de la Barrera y Goycochea
María Mercedes de Mesa y Ulloa

She was born in Chillán, the second daughter of Simón Riquelme de la Barrera y Goycochea and of María Mercedes de Mesa y Ulloa. At the age of 16, she became pregnant by 58 years old Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno, future viceroy of Peru.

She married twice, first in 1780 to Félix Rodríguez y Rojas, by whom she had a daughter, Rosa Rodríguez y Riquelme (Chillán, August 30, 1781 – Lima, 1850). Her husband died in 1782 and she married her second husband, Manuel de Puga y Figueroa, by whom she had another daughter named Maria de las Nieves de Puga y Riquelme in 1793.

References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 2, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Mercedes Fontecilla
First Lady of Chile
1817–1823
Succeeded by
Manuela Caldera Mascayano


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