The Marquess of San Isidro | |
Honorific-Suffix: | OM |
Office2: | Senator for León |
Monarch2: | Alfonso XII |
President2: | Antonio Cánovas del Castillo |
Term Start2: | 1876 |
Term End2: | 1878 |
Office: | Senator for life |
Term Start: | 1864 |
Term End: | 1885 |
Birth Date: | 28 September 1804 |
Birth Place: | A Coruña, Kingdom of Spain |
Death Place: | Durango, Kingdom of Spain |
Birthname: | Francisco Manuel María Wenceslao Rui-Gómez y Dañobeitia |
Signature: | Francisco Manuel Rui-Gómez Signature.svg |
Signature Alt: | Francisco Manuel Rui-Gómez's signature |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Illustrious |
Francisco Manuel Rui-Gómez y Dañobeitia, 5th Marquess of San Isidro, OM (28 September 18045 August 1885) was a Spanish peer, army officer, politician and intellectual who fought for the Liberals in the Carlist Wars and later served as Senator for the Province of León as well as Senator for life in 1864.[1] [2]
Born Francisco Manuel María Wenceslao in A Coruña,[3] into one of the most influential noble houses of León. His father, Francisco de Paula Rui-Gómez y de Prado, 4th Marquess of San Isidro, was posted there as field marshal of the Royal Spanish Armies at the time he was born.[4] His ancestor, Pablo Rui-Gómez Lasso de la Vega y Balmaseda, had been granted the title of Marquess of San Isidro in 1730 by the king Philip V, in recognition to his patronage of the Basílica of San Isidoro in León.[5]
Rui-Gómez married María del Carmen de Riobóo y Roldán, Countess of Taboada (d. 1839).[6] They had one child: