Carmen Salinas de la Vega

Carmen Salinas de la Vega (María del Carmen Celestina Ascencia Salinas y de la Vega, (June 1807 – ?) was an Ecuadorian aristocrat, and the First Lady of Ecuador to Manuel de Ascásubi from 1849 to 1850 and once again in 1869.

Carmen Salinas de la Vega
First Lady of Ecuador
In role October 15, 1849 – June 10, 1850
President	Manuel de Ascásubi
Preceded by	Juana Andrade Fuente Fría
Succeeded by	Tomasa Carbo y Noboa
In office May 16, 1869 – August 10, 1869
Preceded by	Mariana del Alcázar
Succeeded by	Mariana del Alcázar
Personal details
Born	María del Carmen Celestina Ascencia Salinas y de la Vega June 1807 Quito, Spanish Empire
Nationality	Ecuadorian
Spouse(s)	Manuel de Ascásubi
Children	See Marriage and descendants

Biography

Carmen Salinas de la Vega was born María del Carmen Celestina Ascencia Salinas y de la Vega to Juan de Salinas y Zenitagoya, a hero of the Ecuadorian War of Independence, and his wife María de la Vega y Nates, a Creole.[1] When de Salinas was killed in the 2 August 1810 mutiny, the religious community of Quito managed to have the lives of María de la Vega and her oldest daughter María Dolores banished to the Monastery of La Concepción and thus they avoided being hanged for their support of the riot but their property was confiscated by order of the President of the Province of Quito, Manuel Ruiz Urriés de Castilla. María de la Vega died on 1 December 1820 and was buried at the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, leaving Maria Dolores to look after Carmen. After the War of Ecuadorian Independence recovered their properties when it was restored to them by Colonel Antonio José de Sucre in 1822.[2]

Marriage and descendants

Salinas married Manuel de Ascásubi, whose mother was Marquess of Maenza and Countess of Puñonrostro (a title he did not inherit because of laws issued by Simón Bolívar and then ratified by the Ecuadorian government).[1] They had four daughters:[3]

• Avelina Ascázubi y Salinas de la Vega, married to the widower of María Dolores, her cousin José María Lasso de la Vega, with whom she had two children:
  • José Manuel Lasso de la Vega and Ascázubi, born in Paris and married María Esther Paulina Carrión
  • María Avelina Lasso de la Vega y Ascázubi, married Leónidas Plaza. Her son, Galo Plaza, would also be President of Ecuador
• María Ascázubi y Salinas de la Vega, married to her distant cousin Cristóbal Jijón, with whom she had two children:
  • Antonia Jijón y Ascázubi, married her cousin Neptalí Bonifaz and Ascázubi
  • Dolores Jijón and Ascázubi, married Enrique Gangotena
• Dolores Ascázubi y Salinas de la Vega, married her cousin José María Lasso de la Vega, with whom she became a widower and have no children.
• Josefina Ascázubi y Salinas de la Vega, married to José Mateo Neptalí Bonifaz, with whom she had two children:
  • Neptalí Bonifaz y Ascázubi, married his cousin Antonia Jijón y Ascázubi
  • Manuel, married María del Tránsito Filomena Francisca Rosa Hipólita Panizo

See also

• Manuel de Ascásubi
• Juan de Salinas y Zenitagoya

Citations

1. Guamán Freire, Andrés (17 October 2011). "Familia del Prócer Juan de Salinas y Zenitagoya". andresguamanfreire.wordpress.com (in Spanish). Opinión histórica de la realidad. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
2. Pérez Pimentel, Rodolfo (1993). Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador, tomo VIII. Guayaquil: University of Guayaquil. p. 348.
3. Alvarado Dávila, Mauricio. "María del Carmen Celestina Ascencia Salinas". Los orígenes de los ecuatorianos.