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'''Campuzano Polanco''' was an [[elite]] family from the [[Captaincy General of Santo Domingo|colony of Santo Domingo]] with origins in [[Santiago de los Caballeros]]. Unlike any other family from the colonial era of the [[Hispaniola]], their members and descendants went on to occupy the highest political, military and ecclesiastical positions, not only locally and outside the Island, but also in the metropolis of [[Spain]]. Their list of merits extends for over 300 years since the beginning and until the end of the colony.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.calameo.com/read/000530775189341530d57?trackersource=library|title=Dominicanos Insignes en el exterior. Pag 11|last=Utrera|first=Fray Cipriano de|date=|website=|publisher=CLIO Vol. 33|access-date=}}</ref>
'''Campuzano Polanco''' was an [[elite]] family from the [[Captaincy General of Santo Domingo|colony of Santo Domingo]] with origins in [[Santiago de los Caballeros]]. Unlike any other family from the colonial era of the [[Hispaniola]], their members and descendants went on to occupy the highest political, military and ecclesiastical positions, not only locally and outside the Island, but also in the metropolis of [[Spain]]. Their list of merits extends for over 300 years since the beginning and until the end of the colony.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.calameo.com/read/000530775189341530d57?trackersource=library|title=Dominicanos Insignes en el exterior. Pag 11|last=Utrera|first=Fray Cipriano de|date=|website=|publisher=CLIO Vol. 33|access-date=}}</ref>
== Origins ==
== Origins ==

Revision as of 08:39, 15 January 2017

Campuzano Polanco was an elite family from the colony of Santo Domingo with origins in Santiago de los Caballeros. Unlike any other family from the colonial era of the Hispaniola, their members and descendants went on to occupy the highest political, military and ecclesiastical positions, not only locally and outside the Island, but also in the metropolis of Spain. Their list of merits extends for over 300 years since the beginning and until the end of the colony.[1]

Origins

Pedro Perez Polanco (c.1640-1710) was a captain of the military bands of the "cincuentenas" (bands of 50 cavalry lancers ) from the northern part of the island of the Hispaniola who lead successful military campaigns against the English invasion of Penn and Venables in 1655[2] and against the French in the Battle of the Limonade in 1691[3]. Along with other captains such as Luis Lopez Tirado, Antonio Pichardo Vinuesa, Antonio Miniel, Jose Morel de Santa Cruz, Francisco del Monte and others, Polanco constituted the military and political elite of Santiago de los Caballeros and the North coast.[4]

Perez Polanco was also Mayor of Santiago de los Caballeros and well off hatero (herder), rancher and sugar mill owner. His father, Garcia Perez Polanco (c.1620- 1656), had also been a captain of the northern military bands defending the northern coast and towns against the buccaneers and the fiibusters.[5] His mother was Ines Martinez Mejia.

File:CampuzanoPolanco.jpg
Coat of Arms of the Campuzano-Polanco. Burial slab in their Chapel del Rosario

His grandfather, Pedro Polanco de Henao (c.1590-1680), was Mayor of the town of Concepcion de La Vega in 1623[6] and was married to Ana Minaya Alconchel. His greatgrandparents Garcia Perez Polanco (c.1550) and Apolinaria de Henao y Almeida Casasola descended from nobles and the earliest settlers of Santiago de los Caballeros, La Vega and Cotui,[7][8] three of the oldest European settlements in the American continent. Garcia Perez Polanco was also Mayor of La Vega around 1575.[9]

His great great grandfather, Garcia de Polanco (c.1480), was one of the first miners who landed in the New World. He arrived with Christopher Columbus on his 4th voyage in 1502 in the Gallega ship and was among the first settlers of la Villa Buenaventura, today's Pueblo Viejo in Cotui, home of the first gold mine exploited by the Spaniards in the New World.[10][11]

His relatives Luis Polanco was mayor of Cotui in 1638[12] and Garcia Polanco was Vicar General in 1660 under Archbishop Francisco Pio Guadalupe Tellez.[13]

Pedro Perez Polanco married Bernarda Martinez de Rojas. His daughter, Maria Josefa Perez Polanco (c.1660) married Gregorio Semillan Campuzano. Campuzano (b. 1648) was an hidalgo from Guadalajara, Spain and arrived in the island in 1680 as an asesor of the Governor Francisco de Segura Sandoval y Castilla (1678-1684)[14]. He was also Mayor of Santiago de los Caballeros and wrote a chronical titled "Memorial" where the living conditions and economy of the north of the island at the time were described.[15]

1st Generation

* Francisco Gregorio Campuzano Polanco - dedicated to the clergy and became Provincial of the Dominican Order (Order of the Preachers) in 1720 for  the area of ​​Santa Cruz de las Indias with a wide jurisdiction over the convents of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba and Jamaica.[16]

* Pedro Campuzano Polanco, Lieutenant Colonel of the city of La Vega, Villa del Cotuí and his parties in 1719, in charge of evicting the enemies who were approaching the coasts, in particular the French. He played a major role in the pacification of the uprising in the city of Santiago, known as the "Revolt of the Captains".[17] and in charge of the incorporation to the island of the families and victims of the Shipwreck of Azogues. Later he was mayor of Santo Domingo in 1752. His son, Antonio Bruno Campuzano-Polanco, was a priest at the Cathedral Primate of the Americas.[18]

* Jose Campuzano Polanco (1680-?), arguably the most successful privateer corsair from Santo Domingo during the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean in the first half of the  XVIII century operating under a "patente de corso" (letter of marque).[19][20] One of the most daring and active corsairs of the Caribbean region in the fight against illicit trade with countries other than Spain, capturing more than 50 foreign ships with his ships El Firme (his first vessel), N.S. Popa, and Maria.[21][22]

Known for his audacity and deep knowledge of the seas, he was awarded patente de corso to operate expeditions in Cartagena, Santa Marta, Maracaibo, Florida, Puerto Rico and the island of Santa Cruz, among other areas. In theory privateering aimed to stop contraband but in reality it was a very important activity for the island of Santo Domingo, since it provided products of basic consumption to the population and also slave workers.[23]

* Francisco Campuzano Polanco (1689-1741), was a maestre de campo who moved to Coro, Venezuela and there he married Francisca Morillo de Ayala and founded cocoa farms. He became mayor of Coro in 1715 and his children were assigned military positions and engaged in agricultural activities. One of his sons Francisco Campuzano-Polanco Morillo was mayor of Coro as well and Jose moved back and resided in Santo Domingo.

2nd Generation

Jose Campuzano- Polanco Morillo returned to Santo Domingo to manage the sugar mill of Barbarroja which belonged to the family and became the first Provincial Mayor of the Santa Hermandad when it was first created in the island in 1751. He was named mayor of Santo Domingo in 1752 by Governor Francisco Rubio y Peñaranda (1751-1759)

He married Rosa Fernandez de Lara and had one son, Adrian and three daughters, Maria Magdalena who married Nicolas Heredia Serrano Pimentel, Josefa who married Jose Maria Mieses Guridi, a wealthy rancher and Maria Magdalena Catalina who married Ignacio Perez Caro, great grandson of former Governor Ignacio Perez Caro.

3rd Generation

Jose Maria Heredia (1803-1839)

Adrian Campuzano-Polanco Fernandez (born 1754, Santo Domingo)  was the first criollo from Santo Domingo to be elected as a deputy to the Cortes de Cadiz in 1811 as a Member for America and the Philippines, positions to which he resigned or did not accept. He married Rosa Perez-Caro, granddaughter of the Governor Ignacio Perez Caro. He was also rector of the University of Santo Tomas de Aquino in 1795, asesor of the Army in Cuba and lawyer for the Royal Audencia in Camaguey, Cuba.[24]

4th Generation

Francisco Xavier Caro de Oviedo and Torquemada (born 1773, Santo Domingo) was the son of Maria Magdalena Catalina Campuzano-Polanco Fernandez and Ignacio Perez Caro y Oviedo, great grandson of former Governor Ignacio Perez Caro. He  became rector of the University of Salamanaca from 1798 to 1800 after having studied there years before, being one of the few Americans criollos ever to do so.  He was vocal in the governmental board of Castilla la Vieja (1808-1810) and was the commisary for the King of Spain in the island of Santo Domingo after La Reconquista of Juan Sanchez Ramirez in 1808. He was diputy for America in the Cortes de Cadiz from 1813-1814, minister of the Consejo de Indias[25]  and a member of the court of Isabel II In 1833. He was also testamentary of King Fernando VII.[26][27]

5th Generation

File:ChapelVirgindelRosario.jpg
Private chapel of Campuzano-Polanco. Chapel del Rosario, Convent of the Dominican Order

Maria Mercedes Heredia Campuzano Polanco, daughter of Nicolas Heredia Serrano and Maria Magdalena Campuzano-Polanco Fernandez, married Jose Francisco Heredia Mieses. They were the parents of poet Jose Maria Heredia (1803-1839), known as "El Cantor del Niagara" and named National Poet of Cuba.

Private burial chapel of the Campuzano-Polanco

In the early XVIII century Francisco Gregorio Campuzano-Polanco  reconstructed the Chapel of Virgin del Rosario in the Convent of the Dominican Order. The family became the owners of the chapel and most its members are buried there.

The vault of the chapel is decorated with the twelve zodiacal sign around the sun, and because of this the chapel is also called the Chapel of the Zodiac. In addition in the vault there are other personages like the Olympic Gods that represent the four seasons. This interesting and unique chapel is the only one of its kind in America and one of the three vaults with astrological representations that exist today in the world, along with the Chapel of Salamanca and Rio Seco.[28][29]

References

  1. ^ Utrera, Fray Cipriano de. "Dominicanos Insignes en el exterior. Pag 11". CLIO Vol. 33.
  2. ^ Utrera, Fray Cipriano de. "Heredia: Centenario de Jose Maria Heredia". Editorial Franciscana, Ciudad Trujillo 1939.
  3. ^ Del Monte y Tejada, Antonio. "Historia de Santo Domingo Tomo III, page 50". Imprenta Garcia Hermanos, 1890.
  4. ^ Del Monte y Tejeda, Antonio. "Historia de Santo Domingo Tomo III, page 23". Imprenta Garcia Hermanos, 1890.
  5. ^ Torres Agudo, Ruth. "Los Campuzano-Polanco, una familia de la élite de la ciudad de Santo Domingo". Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [online].
  6. ^ "Confirmacion de oficio: Pedro Polanco de Henao". Archivo General de Indias; Santo Domingo,32,N.18.
  7. ^ Del Monte y Tejada, Antonio. "Historia de Santo Domingo, page 16". Imprenta Garcia Hermanos, 1890.
  8. ^ Rodriguez Demorizi, Emilio. "Relaciones Historicas de Santo Domingo, Vol II page 407". Editora Montalvo, 1945.
  9. ^ Utrera, Fray Cipriano de. "Noticias Históricas de Santo Domingo Vol. Vl page 241". Editora Taller, 1983.
  10. ^ Leon Guerrero, Montserrat. "Los Pasajeros del Cuarto Viaje de Colon. Page 12" (PDF).
  11. ^ D' Esposito, Francesco. "Auge y ocaso de la primera sociedad minera de América. Santo Domingo 1503-1520". Novo Mundo Mundos Novos (Online), 2015.
  12. ^ "Confirmacion de oficio: Luis Polanco". Archivo General de Indias Santo Domingo,34,N.2.
  13. ^ "Meritos: Garcia Polanco". Archivo General de Indias Indiferente,118,N.98.
  14. ^ "MERITOS: Gregorio Cemillan y Campuzano". Archivo General de Indias Indiferente,125,N.19.
  15. ^ Rodriguez Demorizi, Emilio. "Familias Hispanoamericas: Campuzano-Polanco" (PDF). BAGN- Boletin del Archivo General de la Nacion.
  16. ^ "Meritos: fray Gregorio Semillán Campuzano Polanco". Archivo General de Indias Indiferente,219,N.23.
  17. ^ Cassa, Roberto. "Rebelion de los Capitanes: Que viva el rey y muera el mal gobierno" (PDF). Archivo General de la Nacion, 2014.
  18. ^ "Meritos: Pedro Campuzano Polanco". Archivo General de Indias Indiferente,141,N.82.
  19. ^ Stapells Johnson, Victoria. "Corsairs of Santo Domingo: A Socio Economic study 1718- 1779, page 102" (PDF). University of Ottawa, 1985.
  20. ^ "Meritos: Jose Campuzano Polanco". Archivo General de Indias Indiferente,145,N.52.
  21. ^ Benei, Veronique. "The corsair, the bishop, the governor and the runaways: Negotiating slavery in early eighteenth century Santa Marta, New Granada". Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [Online].
  22. ^ Britto Garcia, Luis (1998). Demonios Del Mar: Piratas Y Corsarios En Venezuela, 1528-1727. Comision Presidencial V Centenario de Venezuela.
  23. ^ Sánchez Valverde, Antonio. "Idea del valor de la Isla Español, page 142" (PDF). Editora Montalvo, 1958.
  24. ^ Cassa, Roberto. "Biografias sumarias de los diputados de Santo Domingo en las Cortes españolas" (PDF). Archivo General de la Nacion, 2013.
  25. ^ "Francisco Javier Caro de Torquemada". Archivo General de Indias Ultramar,132,N.11.
  26. ^ Cassa, Roberto. "Biografias sumarias de los diputados de Santo Domingo en las cortes españolas" (PDF). Archivo General de la Nacion, 2013.
  27. ^ Torres Agudo, Ruth. "Dos catedraticos dominicanos en la Universidad de Salamanca" (PDF). CLIO No. 168, 2004.
  28. ^ Rubio, Fray Vicente (1986). "Capilla del Rosario: La mas extraña boveda del pais" (PDF). El Caribe.
  29. ^ Del Monte, Manuel (2015). "Capilla de Nuestra Senora del Rosario".

Works cited

  • Ruth Torres Agudo, ‘Los Campuzano-Polanco, una familia de la élite de la ciudad de Santo Domingo’, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [online], Coloquios, Online 05.01.2007. URL : http://nuevomundo.revues.org/3240 ; DOI : 10.4000/nuevomundo.3240.
  • Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi, Familias Hispanoamericanas, Vol. 1, Trujillo, Dominican Rep., Montalvo, 1959, p. 61
  • Victoria Stapells Johnson, Corsarios de Santo Domingo 1718-1779: Un estudio socio-económico, Lleida, Spain, Espai-Temps, 1992.
  • Ruth Torres Agudo, "Elites y grupos de poder: Los Hacendados de Santo Domingo (1750- 1795). University of Salamanca, 2008. URL: http://gredos.usal.es/jspui/bitstream/10366/21683/3/DHMMC_TorresAgudo_Elites.pdf
  • Machado Baéz, Manuel. Santiagueses ilustres de la colonia. 2nd Edition, Santo Domingo, Ediciones Centurión, 1972
  • Torres Agudo, Ruth. “Dos catedráticos dominicanos en la Universidad de Salamanca”. CLÍO 168 (Santo Domingo, 2004) pp. 245–264.
  • Ugarte, María. Iglesias, Capillas y ermitas coloniales. Santo Domingo, Colección Banreservas, 1995.
  • Utrera, Fray Cipriano de. Centenario de José María Heredia (1839-1939). Ciudad Trujillo, Editoral Franciscana, 1939.
  • Utrera, Fray Cipriano de. Santo Domingo. Dilucidaciones históricas. Santo Domingo, Publicaciones de la Secretaría de Estado de Educación, Bellas Artes y Cultos, 1978, Vol I.
  • Hernandez Gonzalez, Manuel Vicente. Expansion fundacional y desarrollo en el norte dominicano (1680-1795), Santo Domingo, Editora Buho, 2007.
  • Gabriel García, José. Compendio de la Historia de Santo Domingo. Tomo II, Santo Domingo, Imprenta de Garcia Hermanos, 1894
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