Genealogía de la familia Figueredo
Notes for Jacome del Milanes/Juana Ponce y Guevara
Jacome (Giaccomo) Milanes was born in Florence,
Italy, and married Juana Ponce y Guevara. He was
living in Bayamo in 1604, when the news arrived that the French
pirate Gilberto Giron had kidnapped, in the parish of San José
de Yara, the bishop of the island of Cuba, Fray Juan de
las Cabezas Altamirano and his assistant, Canónigo
FranciscoPuebla. Giron took his captives to Manzanillo and
announced that the price for their release would be a thousand
hides, two hundred ducados [ducats], and a hundred arrobas
[a unit of weight equal to 11 ½ kgs] of salted meat.
The residents of Bayamo decided not to pay the ransom but instead
to attack the pirates to secure the prisoners' release. The
action was directed by Capitán Gregorio Ramos, jointly
with Jácome Milanes, and Antonio Tamayo. In the bloody fight
that ensued the black slave Salvador Golomón killed Gilberto
Giron. Giron's head was cut off, placed on the tip of a pike, and
walked through the streets of Bayamo, where it was displayed in
the Plaza de Armas, while a 'festival atmosphere reigned in the
village'.
The cabildo [town council] declared the victors to be
heroes, and the slave, Salvador Golomón, was given his freedom.
In what is called the 'first major literary work in seventeenth
century Cuba', a poem called Espejo de Paciencia [Mirror
of Patience], by Silvestre de Balboa de Troya y Quesada [see
elsewhere in this genealogy], describes the kidnapping and
release of Bishop Cabezas.
Jacomes and Juana had four children, Gaspar, Constanza Jacomina,
Antonio, and Florentin.
Children of Jacome Milanés and Juana Ponce:
i Gaspar de Ulloque [5th great grandfather of Perucho]
ii Constanza Jacomina de Guevara [5th great grandmother of
Perucho]
iii Antonio Milanes Ponce y Guevara married Clara Bejarrano.
iv Capitán Florentin Milanes y Ponce, alcalde
ordinario [magistrate] de Bayamo, married Maria
Marron de Santiesteban. They had two children, María Magdalena
and Bernardo Milanes y Marron de Santiesteban.
Of these children, Bernardo was the great grandfather of Jose
Jacinto Milanes y Fuentes, described as "one of the most
distinguished Cuban poets of the nineteenth century despite
''vague rumors that surround a gifted writer's strange
life".
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