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Paz Pardo de Tavera

Paz Pardo de Tavera

Filipina murder victim, wife of Juan Luna (1862–1892)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pardo de Tavera and the second or maternal family name is Gorricho.

Maria de la Paz Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho[Note 1] (died 3[1] or 6[2] October 1892) was a Philippine mestiza and wife of Filipino painter Juan Luna. Though born in the Philippines, she and her family moved to Paris some time after her father Félix's death in 1864.[3] She had two children with Luna: Andrés and María de la Paz, though the latter died when she was three years old.[3]

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On 22 September 1892, after being accused of adultery, Pardo de Tavera was shot by Luna in their atelier in Villa Dupont [fr] alongside her mother Juliana Gorricho and her brother Félix, with the latter surviving the incident. Pardo de Tavera died from her gunshot wounds eleven days after the said incident, in a hospital.[3][1]

She was the daughter of Trinidad Pardo de Tavera (from Tavira), of Portuguese-Spanish descent.[4]

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Full name is Maria de la Paz Paulina Rozario Carmen Amparo Consolacion Secarro Vicenta Ramano Lutgarda Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho

References

  1. [1]
    Ocampo, Ambeth (14 February 2012). "Love that kills". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved 2 April 2020. Luna's wife was found on the floor by neighbors and the police, she died 11 days later.
  2. [2]
    Officier de l'état civil (1892). Registres de l'état civil (Item 3) (in French). p. 33. Retrieved 24 July 2020. le six octobre...
  3. [3]
    McCoy, Alfred, ed. (2009). "Ilustrado Legacy: The Pardo de Taveras of Manila". An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines. The University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-22984-9. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. [4]
    "79 Notable Alumni of San Juan de Letran College". EduRank.org - Discover university rankings by location. 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2023-05-17.

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