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The Zóbel de Ayala clan is a Filipino business family of German-Spanish ancestry, founders of Ayala y Compañía (now Ayala Corporation) and the Premio Zóbel literary awards. The clan is directly descended from Jacobo Zóbel y Zangroniz (1842-1896) and Trinidad de Ayala (1856-1918). Ayala y Compañía traces its origins to Casa Róxas, a business partnership established in 1834 between Domingo Róxas (1792-1843) and Antonio de Ayala (1803-1876). ==History== The Ayala family, as is known today in the Philippines, was established by two immigrants, Antonio Ayala (from Spain) and Domingo Roxas e Ureta, a German in the 18th century. The Ayala ancestors were from northern Spain’s mountainous region of Alava, Basque Country, where one of their forefathers Juan Larrazabal Ayala (circa 1475) was a landowner. Antonio de Ayala, who was from Hueto Abajo (Araba) sailed from Andalusia to Manila in the 19th century. In Manila, after working for a few years under his uncle, he established an industrial partnership with Domingo Róxas, and later with Dr. Johannes Andreas Zóbel, a German pharmacist from Hamburg, who had settled in Manila in 1832. Róxas was a descendant of a Spanish immigrant from Mexico, Antonio Fernández de Roxas of Acapulco, who migrated to the Philippines in 1695 as an early colonist. The Róxas clan have resided in the Philippines since the nineteenth century. Historically, the family has been well known for their socio-economic and cultural contributions to the country, such as the pioneering of Manila's first rail system in the 20th century, establishing the oldest existing financial institution in Southeast Asia, as well as the construction of the first steel bridges in the Philippines, one of which was called the ''Ayala Bridge''. They had the first private plane in the Philippines, which they named ''Prima Zobelina''. The Ayala-Róxas clan commenced when, in 1844, Antonio de Ayala married Margarita Róxas, the daughter of his business partner Domingo Róxas. Domingo Róxas was the descendant of a German family though some sources claim that he had descended from a Mexican immigrant Antonio Fernández de Róxas of Acapulco, who settled in the Philippines in 1695. Dr. Johannes Andreas Zóbel was a Danish-German pharmacist who moved to Manila and established the first chemical laboratory of the Philippines in 1834. His son Jacobo Zóbel y Zangroniz would marry Trinidad de Ayala, the daughter of Margarita Róxas de Ayala. The children of Jacobo and Trinidad - Enrique (1877-1943), Alfonso (1877-1882), Fernando (1876-1949) and Margarita (1881-1963) - would use the surname ""Zóbel de Ayala", changed from the surname "Zóbel y Ayala" (following the Spanish tradition of conjoining the paternal and maternal surnames). In this manner, preserving and perpetuating their maternal family's Spanish and Basque roots. Henceforth, the descendants would choose to follow their example. 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「Zobel de Ayala family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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