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Chile was the least wealthy realm of the Spanish Crown for most of its colonial history.
This occupation, however, pitted the Spanish white elite against the iron fisted Haitian administration, and stimulated the emigration of many white wealthy families.
Cartagena served a key role in the development of the region during the Spanish eras ; it was a center of political and economic activity due to the presence of royalty and wealthy viceroys.
A wealthy nobleman, William originally served the Habsburgs as a member of the court of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
The motivation for these measures was a desire to repair a perceived injustice, the need of a collaborative base of natives in Spanish Morocco, and an attempt to attract the sympathy of wealthy European Sephardis like the Pereiras of France.
The Spanish conquistador was traveling northeast across the prairie in search of a place called Quivira, a city said to be fabulously wealthy with gold.
Stroessner's parents were Hugo Strößner, who emigrated from Hof, Bavaria, Germany, and worked as an accountant for a brewery, and Heriberta Matiauda, who grew up in a wealthy Paraguayan family of criollo Spanish descent.
With the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the institution of viceroys was adapted to govern the highly populated and wealthy regions of the north overseas: New Spain ( Mexico and Phillipines ) and the south overseas: Peru and South America.
The Effingham branch of the Howard family, including the Earl of Nottingham who as Lord High Admiral commanded the force which defeated the Spanish Armada, lived there until their heirs sold it to the wealthy London brewer, John Parsons in 1681.
As a result of the proliferation of upper middle class and wealthy neighborhoods, several prominent private schools were founded in Guaynabo, including Academia San José, Colegio Marista, which mainly instruct in Spanish, although most private schools extensively cover English to levels comparable to those of the mainland ; and Parkville School, American Military Academy, Baldwin School, in the Guaynabo-Bayamón border, and Wesleyan Academy, which mainly instruct in English.
During this trip, he revisited some of the sites mentioned in the book as well as seeing old friends, including some that had been mentioned in the book, and one unnamed person, the " Agent " ( of the trading company ), whom he intensely disliked ( a man named Fitch, who had married into the wealthy Spanish Colonial Moraga family ).
The official etymology from the 1930s says the name comes from the Tagalog phrase " May lakán diyán ", (" There is a nobleman there "), as it was originally the home of a wealthy Spanish merchant.
It was the merchant economy which made them wealthy and the Spanish attempts at increasing taxation, to finance the Habsburg wars, was a major factor in their proud defence of ancient privileges.
In addition, Salarino's reference to " my wealthy Andrew docked in sand " is thought to refer to the San Andréas, a Spanish merchant vessel that ran aground in Essex in June 1596.
The increasingly wealthy Spanish trading post in Zamboanga became an even more sought after prize for the Moro pirates of the era, so much so that the surrounding islands started to attract the attention of other foreign powers, and chief among these coveted islands was Basilan.
In the early colonial period, the Spanish quickly exported vanilla to Europe and a number of cultivators became wealthy.
Her mother, Francisca de Arteaga y Betancourt, was also from a wealthy Spanish family that had lived in Puerto Príncipe.
Her maternal grandmother, Luisa Kilpatrick, née Valdivieso Araoz, was a member of a wealthy Spanish family that settled in Chile in the 17th century.
At the beginning of the 19th century, wealthy Spanish families arrived in Pepino, fleeing the revolutions of Venezuela and the Dominican Republic.
On the positive side, Stephen has inherited a vast sum from his Spanish godfather and become a very wealthy man.
Valero de Bernabé was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, his father, Cayetano Valero de Bernabé, was an officer in the Spanish Army and his mother, Rosa Pacheco de Onormandía, came from a wealthy Puerto Rican family.
His mother was a most powerful and wealthy lady, Leonor de Zúñiga y Sotomayor, herself daughter of a powerful duchess, Teresa de Zúñiga, 2nd marchioness of Ayamonte, 3rd duchess of Béjar, 4th countess of Bañares, 2nd marchioness of Gibraleón, so it was her name Zúñiga, the one to be passed to the family, as she was married to a " Sotomayor " of a less endowed with nobility titles, county of Belalcázar, something by no means unique in the High Spanish Nobility of the time.
Portuondo had three sisters in the family ; her mother came from a wealthy Spanish family, and had created a scandal by running off with and marrying a black professional baseball player.
In the 16th century, the legend gave rise to the independent Spanish legends of the Seven Cities of Gold, reputed by mercenary conquistadors to be fabulously wealthy and located somewhere on the mainland of America.

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Zainab was the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Houara ( a Masmuda tribe ), who is said to be from Kairouan in origin.
Her mother, Nadezhda Kalmykova, was the daughter of a former serf who had bought his freedom before serfdom was abolished in 1861, allowing him to become a wealthy Moscow merchant .< ref >
Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.
He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.
Christina was the widow of Miklusz Rokiczani, a wealthy merchant.
He also served from 1783 to September 1785 and was married in 1786 to Ann Thompson, the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, 21 years his junior.
Francis was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, and he lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy young man, even fighting as a soldier for Assisi.
Ebbinghaus was born in Barmen, Germany, the son of a wealthy Lutheran merchant, Carl Ebbinghaus.
As curate of Olney, Newton was partly sponsored by an evangelical philanthropist, the wealthy Christian merchant John Thornton, who supplemented his stipend of £ 60 a year with £ 200 a year " for hospitality and to help the poor ".
On November 30, 1860, Agassiz's daughter Pauline was married to Quincy Adams Shaw ( 1825 – 1908 ), a wealthy Boston merchant and later benefactor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
He was born in Genoa, one of two illegitimate sons of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Lorenzo Alberti.
He was released in 1299, became a wealthy merchant, married and had three children.
His father Niccolò was a merchant who traded with the Middle East, becoming wealthy and achieving great prestige.
The company continued its activities and Marco soon became a wealthy merchant.
Rehdiger, a wealthy Silesian merchant, banker, philanthropist, governor and patron of the principality of Breslau ( Wrocław ) who sponsored the map.
" One reason for this was an attempt to attract members of the growing merchant class, newly wealthy, but still less cultured than the nobility, to the public opera houses.
Maffeo Barberini was born in 1568 into the wealthy merchant Barberini family in Florence, Italy.
These were generally small, but wealthy, trading states, like the Italian city-states and the Hanseatic League, in which the merchant class had risen to prominence.
Across Europe a wealthy merchant class developed in the important trading cities.
These were generally small, but wealthy, trading states in which the merchant class had risen to prominence.
According to most sources, her father, Ambroise-Franҫois, was a wealthy silk merchant.
Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant in Venice, he studied violin and singing.
His mother, Susan Mary Pollexfen, came from a wealthy merchant family in the county town Sligo, County Sligo, who owned a milling and shipping business.
Jejeebhoy was the first Parsee merchant to be created a baronet by Queen Victoria and he would become fabulously wealthy in the years to come.

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