Francisco Javier de Elío
Viceroy of the Río de la Plata | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 5 March 1767 Pamplona, Spain |
Died | 4 September 1822 Valencia, Spain | (aged 55)
Francisco Javier de Elío y Olóndriz (1767 – 1822) was a Spanish soldier and governor of
Political Chief of Río de la Plata
Francisco Javier de Elío was born in
In May 1810, Liniers' successor Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros was deposed by the May Revolution. Elío remained in control of Montevideo and the Banda Oriental and declared himself Viceroy of Río de la Plata, which was confirmed as Political Chief by the Cortes of Cádiz on January 19, 1811.
One month later the rural population of the Banda Oriental under
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When King
A fervent follower of the absolutist cause, Elío played an important role in the repression of the supporters of the Constitution of 1812. For this, he was arrested during the Trienio Liberal and executed in Valencia in 1822.
Copla
The Official Chronicler of the City of Madrid from 1966 to 1983, Federico Carlos Sáinz de Robles,[1] mentions in his essay Autobiography of Madrid (1957), a popular copla in Madrid in 1814 and 1815 about Elío and two other generals, Joaquín Ibáñez, 3rd Baron de Eroles and Francisco de Eguía, the three of whom were considered "uncouth, fanatical and cruel":[2]
Eguía, Eroles, Elío...
Dios te libre de los tres;
porque si Dios no te libra,
¡Santíguate y muérete!
¡Santíguate y muérete!
(Eguía, Eroles, Elío...
God save you from the three
because if God doesn't save you
Make the sign of the cross and prepare to die!
Make the sign of the cross and prepare to die!)[2]
See also
- First Siege of Montevideo
- Dissolution of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
References
- ^ (in Spanish). "Murió Federico C. Sainz de Robles, testigo y cronista de la reciente historia de Madrid." El País. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ a b (in Spanish). Sáinz de Robles, Federico Carlos (1957). Madrid: autobiografia, p. 825. Aguilar. Google Books. Retrieved 18 March 2023.