Biography
Tadea Álvarez Lozano María Tadea Álvarez y Lozano was a neogranadine aristocrat, known for being one of the most distinguished women in Santa Fe (present-day-Bogotá) in the viceroyalty of New Granada and the beginnings of Gran Colombia. Tadea was the daughter of prominent politician Manuel de Bernardo Álvarez del Casal, Governor President of the State of Cundinamarca, who was sentenced and executed by Pablo Morillo during the reconquest of New Granada. And a descendant of Spanish nobility, more specifically with the Marquis of San Jorge, Jorge Miguel Lozano de Peralta, this marquis was the last nobleman officially recognized by the Spanish Crown in New Granada and is now an iconic character in Colombian history. She was placed at the heart of the independence events because all her family was involved (Álvarez...
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