Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros
Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros (
Biography
He probably emigrated to the New World after 1775, as his son José was still born in Madrid that year.
His father was a royal prosecutor at the Supreme Court in Santiago de Chile (the
When the Governor of Chile,
Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros remained a supporter of the Royalist cause in Chile, even after the overthrow of his successor. He strongly opposed the establishment of the First Junta, which earned him an exile to the town of San Fernando, decreed by the insurgents on 14 April 1811. On the same day, the Real Audiencia of Santiago was abolished.
After many efforts, he obtained permission from the National Congress to travel to Lima, where he died in 1818 at the age of 80.
His son José Rodríguez Ballesteros (1775-1851) was a Colonel who served in the Royalist Army during the Chilean War of Independence.
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