MARICHAL MÉNDEZ FAMILY
Dr. Eduardo Méndez Asín married Dr. María Ungár de Ómorovicza, a descendant of a noble Hungarian family. They are the parents of five children.
Dr. Eduardo Méndez Asín’s parents are Don Manuel Méndez Fernández, a native of Hermigua, La Gomera, and a Law Graduate in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1926-2004) and Doña María Pilar Asín Cabrera, a graduate in Chemical Sciences and a retired high school professor (1838- ). His grandparents on his father’s side are Don Domingo Méndez Suárez (1899-1954), landowner in Hermigua, La Gomera and Doña Camila Fernández Pérez (1896-1971), and on his mother’s side they are Dr. José Asín Gavin, a gynecologist in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1909-1979), and Doña Manuela Cabrera Revilla (1916-2004).
A family garden of one acre inherited from Don Domingo Méndez Suárez is for sale in Calle el Cedro de Hermigua (La Vereda), through the Club Inmobiliario de Canarias, +34 922 29 00 02
Don Domingo Méndez Suárez’s grandfather, Don Domingo Méndez Mora (1850-1925) moved from Vallehermoso to Hermigua where he married Doña Dolores Armas Trujillo and they settled in the family home that is now known as the Hotel Rural Ibo Alfaro.
Their son Don Domingo Méndez Armas (1863–1933), married in 1898 Doña Luisa Suárez Darias (1865–1951), and the family went on to live in their home of Ibo Alfaro.
Dr. Eduardo Méndez Asín inherited from his great-grandfather Don Domingo Méndez Armas, 30 hectares of forest and pastures in the heights of Juel in Hermigua. This land was acquired by the family of his wife Doña Luisa Suárez Darias after the abolition of the lordships in Spain (1811) and the confiscation of the Dominican Convent of San Pedro Apóstol de Hermigua (1820). This land is for sale through the Club Inmobiliario de Canarias, +34 922 29 00 02.
By acquiring this property one can become part of the history of La Gomera. Don Domingo Méndez Mora is a direct descendant on his father’s side of Captain Don Juan Marichal, who was granted land in Alojera, Vallehermoso and Valle Gran Rey (1549) by Count Don Guillén Peraza de Ayala (1). A grandson of Capitán Don Juan Marichal, Capitán Don Sebastián Marichal, married Doña Beatriz Méndez in San Sebastián de La Gomera in 1621, introducing the Méndez family name to their descendants (2).
The Marichals were Captains of the Canary Islands Militias in defense of the piratical attacks of La Gomera until the end of the War of the Spanish Succession (1713) and the subsequent establishment of the Canary Islands Infantry Battalion in 1792.
Maciot de Bethencourt entered La Gomera in 1404. The Franciscans evangelized the Canary Islands from the Convent of San Buenaventura in Betancuria in Fuerteventura and they promoted the foundation of the Chapel of Santa Lucía in Alojera-Tazo, La Gomera (1420). The first Norman settlers (1402-1418) coexisted with the Canarian aborigines (Guanches), then with the Portuguese (1423), and finally with the Castilians led by Hernán Peraza the Elder (1450), Lord of the Canary Islands.
The Marichal family in the Canary Islands has its origins in Normandy (France). Alfonso Marichal appears as an informant in the Pesquisa de Cabitos (1477). Pierre Le Mareschal is named in the French Chronicle Le Canarien (1410). The same name, Pierre Le Mareschal, is in the National Archives of France, as a Fellow of the University of Paris (1400).
Bibliography:
- Dávila-García, J (2007). Compendio histórico de las Islas Canarias. Gran Canaria: InfoNorte Digital. Retrieved from Canarias Memoria Digital (cmD): https://mdc.ulpgc.es/files/original/a3d6567183e2c2bf7155cd73b1141b4f3e569c09.pdf
- Díaz Frías, Nelson (2015). Matrimonios de la Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de la Villa de San Sebastián de La Gomera (1599 – 1900). Tomo I. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Ediciones Idea.