![]() ![]() Shortly after, on 30 March 1802, Bolívar granted Pedro Rodríguez del Toro the power of attorney to subscribe in his name the marriage contract. Bolívar proposed to María Teresa that they would marry that same year at the Port of A Coruña. It is speculated that María Teresa's father, appeased by the formal engagement, and added to the value of Bolívar's estate at 200,000 duros, gave his permission and blessing to the couple. On 5 April 1802, upon returning to Spain, Bolívar proposed formally to María Teresa. In August 1800, María Teresa accepted Bolívar's courtship, who described her as "a jewel without defects, valuable without calculation." María Teresa's father took his daughter to Bilbao and a short while later, in March 1801, Bolívar also moved to that city, and then to Paris. There he met María Teresa, who was two years his elder, and with whom he was related throughout various family lines. Bolívar was living at the time at the residence of the Marquess de Ustariz, Jerónimo de Ustáriz y Tovar, whom Bolívar called his "tutor". Bolívar had been sent to Spain at the age of 17 to continue his studies. María Teresa met Simón Bolívar in Madrid in 1800. Fuentes Carvallo, Relationship with Simón Bolívar The aforementioned resemblance with her cousin María del Pilar also leads us to think of her as blonde or of fair brown hair. To date no portraits of her have appeared, and consequently her few images are entirely the figment of the artists' imagination, who were apparently unaware of the general description of her physical appearance that implied a strong resemblance to her light-eyed first cousin, usually blue or greenish. Various studies and biographies gloss the recreation of the myth of María Teresa: Upon her mother's death, María Teresa, though of a young age, took care of her brothers and helped her father and her cousin, Pedro Rodríguez del Toro, in matters related to the administration of goods and haciendas. ![]() By her mother's side, María Teresa was a niece of the Marquess of Inicio and Count of Rebolledo. Her father was the son of the second Marquess del Toro, Francisco Rodríguez del Toro e Isturiz (Governor and Captain General of the Province of Venezuela), and brother of the third Marquess, Sebastián Rodríguez del Toro y Ascanio (Major of Caracas), whose title was inherited by María Teresa's first cousin Francisco Rodríguez del Toro (who would become the first Commander in Chief of Venezuela's independence army). ![]() María Teresa was deeply linked to Caraquenian society. She was born in Madrid on 15 October 1781, during the reign of Charles III. María Teresa was the only daughter of Bernardo Rodríguez del Toro y Ascanio, born in Caracas, Venezuela in the heart of a family with origins in Teror, Canary Islands, and Benita de Alayza Medrano, from Valladolid, Spain. According to historians, and to Bolívar himself, her death was a turning point in his life that put him in the path to become the liberator of six Latin American nations and the forefather of the Latin American integration process. Bolívar swore and kept his promise to never remarry. After only two years of engagement and eight months of marriage, she died after contracting yellow fever at 21 years of age. María Teresa Josefa Antonia Joaquina Rodríguez del Toro Alayza (15 October 1781 – 22 January 1803), was the Spanish-born wife of Simón Bolívar. ![]()
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