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Don Rafael de Sobremonte y Núñez del Castillo, 3rd Marquis of Sobremonte (Seville, 1745 – Cádiz, 1827), third Marquis of Sobremonte, was an aristocrat, military man and Spanish colonial administrator, and Viceroy of the Río de la Plata. He was accused of cowardice by the people of Buenos Aires after escaping the city during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata in 1806. He was born in Seville, 27 November 1745. His parents were the Marquis Raimundo de Sobremonte, military man and magistrate, Knight of the Order of Charles III and member of the Seville Audience, and María Ángela Núñez Angulo y Ramírez de Arellano. At fourteen years of age, he became a cadet in the Regimiento de las Reales Guardias Españolas. He served in different locations, such as Cartagena de Indias, Ceuta and Puerto Rico. In 1779, he was named Secretary to the Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, Juan José de Vértiz, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He continued in that post with the successor, Nicolás del Campo. == Family == Sobremonte married an Argentine lady; Doña Juana María de Larrazábal (first wife), having eleven children with her: * Rafael de Sobremonte y Larrazábal, baptized in Buenos Aires, 22 October 1783. * Marcos José de Sobremonte, baptized in Córdoba, 28 August 1785. * Ramón María Agustín de Sobremonte, baptized in Córdoba, 9 October 1786. * José María de Sobremonte, baptized in Córdoba, 4 January 1790. * Manuel de Sobremonte, baptized in Córdoba, 11 August 1792. * María de las Mercedes de Sobre Monte, baptized in Córdoba, 31 December 1793. * Josefa Juana Nepomucena María del Carmen de Sobremonte, baptized in Córdoba, 24 April 1795. * Juana de Sobremonte, baptized in Córdoba, 19 August 1796. * José María Ramón de Sobremonte, baptized in Buenos Aires, 19 January 1798. * José María Agustín de Sobremonte, baptized in Buenos Aires, 20 April 1799. * Ramón José Agustín de Sobremonte, baptized in Montevideo, 4 August 1801. * José Agustín María de Sobremonte, baptized in Buenos Aires, 19 April 1803. He married again at seventy-five years of age with Doña María Teresa Millán y Marlos, widow of a nephew of Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, the last Viceroy of the Río de la Plata. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rafael de Sobremonte, 3rd Marquis of Sobremonte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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