Famous people of Madrid

By Diego Suárez

La Latina

• She was born in 1465.

• She teached to the Queen Isabel.

• Queen gave her 50,000 maravedíes for her wedding.

• She founded a convent.

Manuela Malasaña

• She was born in 1790.

• She was a teenager when she died.

• There are two stories.

• At 18 years old a bullet killed her.

• She was executed by French army.

Doctor Esquerdo

• He was born in 1842.

• He studied medicine and surgery in Madrid.

• He treated to patients like normal people.

• The rest of doctors treated patients like prisioners.

• He led some left-wing political party.

Mesonero Romanos

• He was born at the beginning of nineteenth century.

• He wrote articles in a newspaper.

• He wrote with the name “Curious speaker”

• He wrote a lot of books about Madrid.

• He was one of the Madrid’s best writters.

Francisco Cabarrús

• He was born in Bayona (France).

• He worked in a friend’s store of his family.

• He married with his boss’s daughter.

• They worked in her grandfather’s store.

• He founded the bank of Spain.

San Isidro Labrador

• He was born in 1082.

• He married St María de la Cabeza.

• He was a shepherd and farmer.

• Empress Isabel built a church where he worked.

• He died on 30st November 1172.(party of Madrid)

Ruy González de Clavijo

• He was an important traveler.

• He traveled to Mongolia to create an embassy.

• He left of Cadiz on 23st March 1403.

• He arrived in Mongolia on 8st September 1404

• Mongolia’s king died when he returned to Spain.

Eloy Gonzalo

• 1st December 1868 he was abandoned.

• A police man and his wife adopted him.

• At 21 years old he was in the army for 12 years.

• He was arrested and he decided go to fight in the Spanish American war.

• A house of rebels was burnt by him.

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• Information taken from www.historiademadrid.com

• Images taken from www.google.com