Today we celebrate the birth of Simón Bolívar, Father of the Nation

(Caracas, July 24. News24) – On July 24, 1783 during the last hours of the night, Simón Bolívar was born as the son of Juan Vicente Bolívar and María de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco

The liberator's ideal was formed over time by the influence of great influences in his life as Professor Simon Rodriguez who learned to love freedom and who was not his mother he taught him to develop in life and formed this first sense of justice, the Negra Hipólita.

His full name: Simón José Antonio de Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Ponte and Palacios Blanco, was the son of a wealthy provincial family from Vizcaya (Basque Country, Spain). His father was the powerful landowner Juan Vicente Bolívar and Ponte-Andrade, 32 years older than his mother, Maria de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco, was the fourth and youngest of the children (including a loss).

childhood by the death of his progenitor produced tuberculosis barely 2 years, under the care and power of María de la Concepción, little Simon grew up and would forge his courage always at his mentors side, first his slaves and wet nurses the blacks Hipolita and Matea, respectively and later their teacher in the letters and teaching Simón Rodríguez, among others more noteworthy.

Now, if there is something that still represents for some a controversial topic for some is the true origin of who would become the father of the Venezuelan homeland and liberator of four other nations, because of some popular sources and from the strange historian and historian investigation, what the classic books tell of history is not so accurate and that Simón Bolívar was not born in what is today. Caracas as everyone believes.

The most widely accepted version by all is that El Libertador was brought to this world in a house in San Jacinto (Cultural Heritage of the Nation called Birthplace of Libertador Simón Bolívar and is working today as a museum), almost at the bottom of the capital's cathedral as told by traditional historiography. 19659004] However, there is a theory that has some supporters that Bolívar would not be born in Caracas proper, but on a hacienda belonging to the family located in the region of Barlovento (state of Miranda) known as Capaya, in which had the usual summer vacation, the Bolívar and Palacios, where, according to family members and survivors of the early days of settlers before giving birth to the mother Simon would have gone to baptism.

However, this claim has more detractors, with the exception of the proud inhabitants of the place and some scholars and advocates of Venezuelan negritude (including President Hugo Chávez himself who l \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ' mentioned in some time in his life), since he has no more support than the roots and ancestral orality of the people, in addition to being unlikely for logistical reasons of the time and, on the contrary, he has official documentation in his birth certificate in the Cathedral of Caracas.

Another no less controversial version asserts that Simón Bolívar will have arrived in this world in one of the family estates in the city of San Mateo (Belén, nowadays state of Aragua), a hacienda ( El Ingenio) passage where certainly "simonsito" would spend much of his childhood, and the time after being married there would live some years with his patient but some scholars and daring say that Bolivar was not born the 24th but that July 25 and other less risky place it between 24 and 25 July 1783.

The origins of the surname Bolívar, el Libertador
In the valley of Ondarroa, in a meadow of Monte Oiz between the mountains of Biscay (Spain), was the first Bolívar. In a place very close to the sea, 5 km from Cenarruza, Diego López de Haro founded a hamlet, around the year 1300, where lived the first Bolívar, carrying with him the ridge of the family that represents "La Pradera from Molino "reference to the Basque landscape of this region.

Around the 10th century, the Bolívar family founded the Puebla that bears his name. They built a water mill that was the fundamental pillar for the prosperity of the region.

Toponym of Cenarruza-Puebla de Bolívar

The official name in Spain is Ziortza-Bolibar. Ziortza is the modern name in esukera of the place name Cerranuza, which would mean "cold hill" . According to several studies, the etymology of the place name "Bolívar" comes from "bolu ibar", which means in esukera "vega del mill". Bolíbar was originally written in Spanish, but according to the new rules of the Castilian language, Bolívar was written.

Currently the small town proudly has the honor of being the origin of one of the most important characters in western history,

The link between this This famous Venezuelan town and Basque city is given by its direct ancestor, his fifth grandfather, who was named Simón de Bolíbar, El Viejo, who emigrated in the middle of the 16th century from Vizcaya. in America. The full name of Simón Ochoa of the Rementería (errementari = blacksmith to vazco) of Bolíbar-Jáuregui (Bolívar Palace).

The father of El Viejo traded Remetería by Bolíbar-Jáuregui, perhaps to adopt more prestige, but in fact it was the Old Man who simplified the family name only for Bolíbar. At that time family surnames were used to adopt the surname; However, there were no strict rules for the configuration and transmission of surnames. Thus, with the disuse of surnames, the elder has adopted only the name of the locality of his family.

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Bolívar who arrived in America was Bolíbar, El Viejo. According to some historians, when his son Simón Bolívar (El Mozo) was born in Santo Domingo (first Bolivar born in America), by mistake of the scribe the name was changed to Bolívar.

El Viejo debuted as an amanuense (scribe) course of the royal audience. His great performance in this area drew the attention of the then Governor of Venezuela, Don Diego de Osorio y Villegas, who hired him as secretary. Caracas, was a simple city, and thanks to his intelligence and activism, was able to organize a Federation of Provinces with the help of all local councils to organize the city.

Apparently, the Bolívar family was meant to give Venezuela advantages. This is thanks to Bolíbar el Viejo, that Spain allowed Venezuela to open up to direct trade and with autonomy to do so, since it no longer depended on the Audiencia de Santo Domingo. The "Pearls" became the currency of Venezuela at that time, then the Old, with its great prestige, founded the Tridentine Seminary, which later became the University of Caracas, now the Central University of Venezuela.

Bolívar has become one of the most powerful in the country. Antonio Bolívar (third generation of the family), has held positions such as: Mayor of Caracas, Corregidor of Valles de Aragua and Mayor of Santa Hermandad. One of his sons, Luis Bolivar and Rebolledo, born in Caracas on February 27, 1627, married Doña María de Martínez Villegas and Ladrón de Guevara. He was a great businessman, an important public figure and held positions such as: Mayor of Caracas, Corregidor and Justicia Mayor of the Valleys of Aragua. Because of his immense fortune, Luis Bolívar financed the construction of the castle of La Guaira to defend the pirate sieges that struck the region.

His son Juan Vicente Bolívar Martínez and Villegas also followed in the footsteps of his predecessors, expanding the possessions of the Bolívar family. Don Juan Bolivar married Doña Petronila de Ponte, who had Juan Vicente de Bolívar and Ponte, father of Simón Bolívar (the Liberator). According to some historians, the Liberator said in a will dated December 10, 1830. "I, Simón Bolívar, Liberator of the Republic of Colombia, I declared: I was legally married to Mrs. Teresa Toro, at the marriage of whom we had no children "

The Bolivarian family of Basque origin was a powerful, ambitious and visionary lineage, which gave America a new, protected image by the freedom of the peoples of the new continent. Simón Bolívar, inspired by Francisco de Miranda (a fighter in the French Revolution), was a separatist, liberating hero and father of the homeland of Greater Colombia (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama), Peru and Bolivia

. christened by its name, Bolivia and many years later, Venezuela became the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; also cities, states, departments, neighborhoods, squares, museums, buildings, avenues, streets, universities, institutions, etc. they honor their name and even Venezuela's motto is called Bolivar (Bs.)

In 1927, the Government of Venezuela built the first monument in Spain in honor of Simón Bolívar located on the square From this small village In the 1950s, the Venezuelan government subsidized the construction of schools in La Puebla de Bolívar and donated a bust of El Libertador, which is still preserved. The old house of the ancestors of El Libertador (Errmentaikua) of the Rementería family was rehabilitated then transformed into a museum: The Simón Bolívar Museum, inaugurated in 1983 (bicentenary of the birth of the Liberator)

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