María Nicolasa de Valdés y de la Carrera (January 7, 1733 – December 18, 1810) was the first
First Lady of Chile
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from September 18, 1810, when her husband became
President
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in Chile's
First Government Junta, until her death four months later.
Nicolasa Valdés was of
Basque
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descent,
born in
Santiago
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, the second daughter of Domingo de Valdés y González de Soberal and of Ana Francisca de Borja de la Carrera y Ureta. She married
Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of la Conquista on May 3, 1751, and together they had ten children. She died in Santiago, shortly before her husband, at the age of 77.
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1733 births
1810 deaths
Chilean women
Chilean people of Basque descent
First ladies of Chile
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19th-century Chilean people
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