Francisco López de Osornio (c. 1645 – c. 1700) was a Spanish landowner and military man, who had an active work in the beginnings of the cattle ranch of the
Province of Buenos Aires. He was the founder of the López de Osornio family in Argentina, and the maternal ancestor of
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation. Althoug ...
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He was born in Andalucia, Spain, the son of Francisco de Osornio and Catalina López Moreno. He carried out his elementary studies possibly in
Madrid, and arrived at the
Río de la Plata from Spain in the year 1674. He married July 21, 1679 in Buenos Aires to Tomasa Merlo de la Mota, daughter of Alejandro de Merlo and Teresa de la Mota, belonging to distinguished Creole families of
Córdoba.
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1640s births
1700s deaths
Military personnel from Buenos Aires
Spanish colonial governors and administrators
Spanish military personnel