Clotilde Urioste de Argandoña

Clotilde de Urioste Velasco (5 February 1857 - 29 October 1933) was the princess of La Glorieta and a philanthropist. She was an upper-class Bolivian lady before her appointment as princess, belonging to one of the illustrious families of Sucre, the Urioste family. Her paternal grandfather was Atanasio de Urioste, a wealthy merchant, and she is the sister of the prominent politician and diplomat Atanasio de Urioste Velasco. She married the future Prince of La Glorieta, Francisco Argandoña Revilla in 1874. Together, they were named princes by a papal bull from Pope Leo XIII on December 28, 1898.[1][2]

Clotilde Urioste de Argandoña
Born
Clotilde Romualda de Urioste Velasco

(1857-02-05)February 5, 1857
Sucre, Bolivia
Died(1933-10-29)October 29, 1933
Sucre, Bolivia
NationalityBolivian
TitlePrincess of La Glorieta
SpouseFrancisco Argandoña Revilla
Parent(s)Melitón de Urioste Gomez
Petronila Clotilde Velasco del Rivero

Life

Born into a powerful family, Clotilde was the daughter of Melitón de Urioste Gomez and Petronila Clotilde Velasco del Rivero. From her youth she was known for her beauty and good qualities. She married Francisco Argandoña Revilla, one of the business partners of her younger brother, Atanasio, after Aniceto Arce insisted to the Urioste family that the union be carried out.[3]

After her husband's death she took over the regency. During the Chaco War with Paraguay, he left the country and when the conflict was over he returned in October 1932. He carried out many works such as promoting the construction of the railway between Sucre and Potosí and the construction of the road from Sucre to Lagunillas. Among the works of social good, he founded and subsidized the asylum for orphans "Santa Clotilde", in the heraldic shield that reads: "Asylum and instruction to the orphan". After his death in 1933, the Bolivian government expressed its regret and the principality came to an end.[4]

La Glorieta

Clotilde bequeathed the castle of La Glorieta to one of her favorite nephews, Roberto Urioste Arana, son of her brother Atanasio de Urioste Velasco. In 1967 the heir to the castle decided to sell it to the Bolivian State and the Armed Forces for its use as a military institution, functioning as a Military School.[5][6][7]

References
  1. "FRANCISCO ARGANDOÑA - PRÍNCIPE DE LA GLORIETA: EL ESPLÉNDIDO BOATO DE "LA PLATA" A ORILLAS DEL RÍO QUIRPINCHACA". Oxígeno Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  2. Goodale, Mark (2019-11-22). A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-4780-0723-4.
  3. Quesada, Juan Isidro (2006). Paseo genealógico por la Argentina y Bolivia (in Spanish). Editorial Dunken. ISBN 978-987-21302-1-3.
  4. Bolivia; Sanjinés, Jenaro (1936). Anuario administrativo (in Spanish). Litografias e imprentas unidas.
  5. "¿Actividad paranormal en La Glorieta y el Liceo Militar?". Correo del Sur. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  6. Rosquellas, Alfredo Jáuregui (1911). Sucre: notas geográficas, históricas, estadísticas y demográficas de la capital de Bolivia (in Spanish).
  7. Beezley, William H. (2020-12-01). Latin American Cultural Objects and Episodes. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-07807-4.
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