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Matheo Olier

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Nationality
  
Spanish

Profession
  
Military

Died
  
1771, Montevideo, Uruguay

Occupation
  
Lieutenant of Infantry

Religion
  
Catholicism

Matheo Olier (c.1697–1771) was a Spanish nobleman, Ayudante mayor of Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Also it served in Spain in the Cantabria Regiment.

Biography

Matheo was born in Sigüenza, were their parents Sebastián de Olier and Valenciana Cabreriza. He was married to María Nicolasa García de la Huerta, daughter of a noble Spanish family. Olier belonging to the Order of Bethlehemite Brothers. In 1747, he had initiated procedures for admission in the Third Order of Saint Francis. Olier and his wife were parents of Mariano Olier, priest in the Cathedral of Buenos Aires.

In 1750 Matheo Olier, leads the persecutions against the Portuguese ships, smugglers on the Parana de las Palmas.

References

Matheo Olier Wikipedia