Carmen Salinas de la Vega


Carmen Salinas de la Vega was an Ecuadorian aristocrat, and the First Lady of Ecuador to Manuel de Ascásubi from 1849 to 1850 and once again in 1869.

Biography

Carmen Salinas de la Vega was born María del Carmen Celestina Ascencia Salinas y de la Vega to Juan de Salinas y Zenitagoya, a hero of the Ecuadorian War of Independence, and his wife María de la Vega y Nates, a Creole. When de Salinas was killed in the, the religious community of Quito managed to have the lives of María de la Vega and her oldest daughter María Dolores banished to the Monastery of La Concepción and thus they avoided being hanged for their support of the riot but their property was confiscated by order of the President of the Province of Quito,. María de la Vega died on 1 December 1820 and was buried at the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, leaving Maria Dolores to look after Carmen. After the War of Ecuadorian Independence recovered their properties when it was restored to them by Colonel Antonio José de Sucre in 1822.

Marriage and descendants

Salinas married Manuel de Ascásubi, whose mother was Marquess of Maenza and . They had four daughters: