Francisco Javier de Errázuriz y Larraín or Francisco Javier Errázuriz Larraín ( Aranaz,

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, Spain, 3 February 1711 –

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on 8 September 1767) was a merchant, farmer, politician, Mayor and

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chileno. It is the trunk of one of the most important colonial

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to which many political and social advances were due.

Origin

Born in Aranaz on 3 February 1711,

, he was the son of Lorenzo de Errázuriz and Vergara and of Micaela de Larraín and Córdova both of

Arrival in the kingdom of Chile

The origins of the

Errázuriz family Errázuriz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Blanca Errázuriz (1894–1940), Chilean socialite *Crescente Errázuriz (1839–1931), Chilean Roman Catholic friar and archbishop, professor, writer and historian *Eugenia Errázu ...

can be traced back to the Spanish Castilian (peninsular) immigration of the 18th century. Arrivide to a america in 1733, arriving at the kingdom of Chile in 1735.
This young Navarran, Francisco Javier Errázuriz Larraín, arrived attracted by the possibilities of joining the business of his uncle Santiago Larraín. Thus, helped by a vast family network of uncles and cousins by Larraín, he was able to venture into mercantile business, consolidating as a merchant, establishing himself in Santiago de Chile. In 1738 Errázuriz had entered fully into the field of work in this country. Proof of this is his testament that year when he leaves for Lima. In Santiago de Chile, he obtained the positions of trust of the Spanish crown and were mayor and perpetual alderman.

Family

He contracted marriage in the

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in 1739 with María Loreto de Madariaga, daughter of the Official Treasurer of the Royal Cajas of the Kingdom of Chile, Francisco de Madariaga and Aris Arrieta.
The children of the Errázuriz Madariaga marriage were six women and four men. The greatest of them was

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(1744); followed by María del Carmen (1745), José Antonio (1747), Francisca (1748), María (1749), María Dolores (1750), Domingo (1754),

(1755), Rosa (1756) and María Loreto (1760). Two of the women died girls (María Dolores and María Loreto), two others were nuns (Francisca and Rosa). Only Maria del Carmen contracted marriage with the corregidor Luis Manuel Zañartu, with whom she had two daughters who were locked up by her father in the Monastery of the Carmen down San Rafael, which she founded expressly for this purpose.Historia de Chile de Francisco A. Encina redactada por Leopoldo Castedo, Tomo 6 página 293 a 302 Loreto de Madariaga was sister of the Cardinal Madariaga, who had outstanding performance in the nascent

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. History says that when Governor Vicente Emparan gathered the neighbors to ask for their support to the

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, it was the Cardinal Madariaga who first gave the cry of freedom that would lead

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to obtain its independence.

Descendant

Regarding the male, ''José Antonio'' and ''Domingo'' were priests and

got married without leaving offspring. Of this first generation, only the firstborn Francisco Javier de Errázuriz Madariaga, merchant and landowner like his father, continued with the family lineage, from which the Erráuriz Aldunate family arose, by marrying Rosa Martínez de Aldunate, daughter of an important official of the Crown and one of the most remarkable families of

His descendants include four presidents of Chile

* Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate, 1831 *

Federico Errázuriz Zañartu Federico Marcos del Rosario Errázuriz Zañartu (; April 25, 1825 – July 20, 1877) was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1871 and 1876. Biography He was born on 25 April 1825 Santiago to Francisco Javier ...

, 1871 to 1876 *

Federico Errázuriz Echaurren Federico Errázuriz Echaurren (Santiago, November 16, 1850 – Valparaíso, July 12, 1901) was a Chilean politician who served as the 12th president of Chile. Early life He was son of the president Federico Errázuriz Zañartu and of Eulogia ...

, 1896 to 1901 * Germán Riesco Errázuriz, 1901 to 1906

References

External links

Genealogical chart of Errázuriz family
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