Isabel Riquelme | |
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 Portrait by José Gil de Castro | |
| First Lady of Chile | |
| In role February 17, 1817 – January 28, 1823 | |
| President | Bernardo O'Higgins |
| Personal details | |
| Born | María Isabel Riquelme de la Barrera y Meza 1758 Chillán, Chile |
| Died | April 21, 1839 (aged 80–81) Lima, Peru |
| Spouse(s) |
Félix Rodríguez y Rojas
(m. 1780; died 1782)Manuel de Puga y Figueroa |
| Children |
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| Parent(s) | Simón Riquelme de la Barrera y Goycochea María Mercedes de Mesa y Ulloa |
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]
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 19, she became pregnant by 58-year-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.
