María de la Concepción Palacios
(1758–1792)
BIRTH
December 9, 1758
PLACE
Caracas, Venezuela, Spanish Empire
NAME
María de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco
DEATH
July 6, 1792
PLACE
Caracas, Venezuela, Spanish Empire
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte
(1726–1786)
CHILDREN
Simón Bolívar
(1783-1830)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
María de la Concepción Palacios was Simón Bolívar’s mother and a member of a wealthy Caracas family. Both of Bolívar’s parents died in his childhood.
EARLY LIFE
After Juan Vicente Bolívar's death in 1786, she administered the family's extensive property and her children's inheritance. She handled lawsuits over estates and mineral rights, acquired additional cacao and coffee lands, and completed projects her husband had begun.
CAREER
DEATH
After managing the Bolívar family estates for six years as a widow, María de la Concepción died in Caracas on July 6, 1792. A biographical account attributes her death to a pulmonary hemorrhage during an acute tuberculosis crisis. Her son Simón was eight, shortly before his ninth birthday.
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