TRINIDAD VON SCHOLTZ
Duchess of Parcent and Countess of Contamina
Trinidad von Scholtz Hermensdorff was born in Malaga in 1867, into a wealthy merchant family with ancestors in Ronda. At the age of 21 she married the Mexican diplomat Manuel Yturbe. Diplomatic activity led the couple to reside in various cities throughout Europe and to interact with the international aristocracy. When she was 25 years old she Trinidad gave birth to her only daughter, Piedad.
But unlike other women of her position, Trinidad never resigned herself to the role of wife and mother. In her palace in Madrid on San Bernardo Street, she gathered the intellectuals of the time and thus the idea of founding the Spanish Society of Friends of Art arose, intended to protect the heritage.
She also stood out for her activity as an art collector, acquiring works in antique shops and promoting contemporary creation. One of the exhibitions that she promoted recovered the memory of Spanish regional costume and became the seed of the current Costume Museum.
Many of the cultural events she organized were charitable. In 1911, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Reina Victoria Hotel, she spent a few days in Ronda. It was then that she decided to buy the House of the Moro King.
RICARDO LEÓN AND ROMÁN
Novelist and poet member of the RAE
Ricardo Francisco León Román Jaramago Guraya was born in Barcelona, although he spent his childhood and adolescence in Badajoz and especially in Malaga, the latter city with which he fully identified. He is the most read Spanish writer in the second decade of the 20th century and one of the most edited authors during his lifetime.
In 1901, upon winning competitive examinations at the Bank of Spain, in the month of October he was transferred to work at the Santander branch.
Santillana del Mar and the nearby towns forged part of his literary personality, abounding in his proximity to Galdós, Escalante and Menéndez Pelayo.
Villa that inspired him to write the novel, “Casta de hidalgos” (1908) in which he faithfully describes the population of Santillana del Mar and the social state in which the population found itself, which serves as the framework for the novel. It was his first big success and a best-seller at the beginning of the century.
León had Antonio Maura as his literary and academic godfather, he was a member of his party and even appeared on one of his electoral lists, although without success.
His candidacy had been proposed by Echegaray, Rodríguez Marín and Maura himself.
PEDRO VELARDE AND VILLA
Inquisitor General Commissioner of Crusade
Pedro Velarde y Villa, “the Prior” also known as “Lord of Las Arenas” by the square where the primitive tower that was the Velarde Palace in the mid-16th century and twin of another located on Cantón de Santillana street was located.
He is the son of Rodrigo Fernández Velarde and María Fernández de Villa, also natives of Santillana del Mar and patrons of the chapel of San Juan de la Collegiata who died in 1528.
In his youth, before embracing the ecclesiastical state, he was married to Doña Mariana de Terán, from this marriage his only son was born, Alonso Velarde, heir to the Velarde Palace and founder of the Dominican Convent in the year 1592, the year in which that the Order of Santo Domingo arrives in Santillana del Mar under the sponsorship of Alonso de Velarde. The Dominican friars settled in the house of Las Arenas or Velarde Palace and other surrounding houses, placing themselves under the patronage of the Queen of Heaven (“Regina Coeli”); until the monastic complex began its construction in 1612 on the outskirts of the town, at which time the friars moved to the first Dominican foundation in Cantabria.
After his time as provisor in the bishoprics of Burgos, Palencia, Salamanca and Cuenca, Pedro Velarde was appointed president of the tribunal of the Holy Office in Toledo. This, together with his closeness to the inquisitor general, Diego de Espinosa, helped him get a place on the Council of Inquisition, which he entered in 1572.
TRINIDAD VON SCHOLTZ
Duchess of Parcent and Countess of Contamina
Trinidad von Scholtz Hermensdorff was born in Malaga in 1867, into a wealthy merchant family with ancestors in Ronda. At the age of 21 she married the Mexican diplomat Manuel Yturbe. Diplomatic activity led the couple to reside in various cities throughout Europe and to interact with the international aristocracy. When she was 25 years old she Trinidad gave birth to her only daughter, Piedad.
But unlike other women of her position, Trinidad never resigned herself to the role of wife and mother. In her palace in Madrid on San Bernardo Street, she gathered the intellectuals of the time and thus the idea of founding the Spanish Society of Friends of Art arose, intended to protect the heritage.
She also stood out for her activity as an art collector, acquiring works in antique shops and promoting contemporary creation. One of the exhibitions that she promoted recovered the memory of Spanish regional costume and became the seed of the current Costume Museum.
Many of the cultural events she organized were charitable. In 1911, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Reina Victoria Hotel, she spent a few days in Ronda. It was then that she decided to buy the House of the Moro King.
RICARDO LEÓN AND ROMÁN
Novelist and poet member of the RAE
Ricardo Francisco León Román Jaramago Guraya was born in Barcelona, although he spent his childhood and adolescence in Badajoz and especially in Malaga, the latter city with which he fully identified. He is the most read Spanish writer in the second decade of the 20th century and one of the most edited authors during his lifetime.
In 1901, upon winning competitive examinations at the Bank of Spain, in the month of October he was transferred to work at the Santander branch.
Santillana del Mar and the nearby towns forged part of his literary personality, abounding in his proximity to Galdós, Escalante and Menéndez Pelayo.
Villa that inspired him to write the novel, “Casta de hidalgos” (1908) in which he faithfully describes the population of Santillana del Mar and the social state in which the population found itself, which serves as the framework for the novel. It was his first big success and a best-seller at the beginning of the century.
León had Antonio Maura as his literary and academic godfather, he was a member of his party and even appeared on one of his electoral lists, although without success.
His candidacy had been proposed by Echegaray, Rodríguez Marín and Maura himself.
PEDRO VELARDE AND VILLA
Inquisitor General Commissioner of Crusade
Pedro Velarde y Villa, “the Prior” also known as “Lord of Las Arenas” by the square where the primitive tower that was the Velarde Palace in the mid-16th century and twin of another located on Cantón de Santillana street was located.
He is the son of Rodrigo Fernández Velarde and María Fernández de Villa, also natives of Santillana del Mar and patrons of the chapel of San Juan de la Collegiata who died in 1528.
In his youth, before embracing the ecclesiastical state, he was married to Doña Mariana de Terán, from this marriage his only son was born, Alonso Velarde, heir to the Velarde Palace and founder of the Dominican Convent in the year 1592, the year in which that the Order of Santo Domingo arrives in Santillana del Mar under the sponsorship of Alonso de Velarde. The Dominican friars settled in the house of Las Arenas or Velarde Palace and other surrounding houses, placing themselves under the patronage of the Queen of Heaven (“Regina Coeli”); until the monastic complex began its construction in 1612 on the outskirts of the town, at which time the friars moved to the first Dominican foundation in Cantabria.
After his time as provisor in the bishoprics of Burgos, Palencia, Salamanca and Cuenca, Pedro Velarde was appointed president of the tribunal of the Holy Office in Toledo. This, together with his closeness to the inquisitor general, Diego de Espinosa, helped him get a place on the Council of Inquisition, which he entered in 1572.
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