CASA PORLIER

Laguneras Houses and Families of Alfonso Soriano and Ben tez de Lugo

The Porlier family house was built in the second half of the 17th century. It was purchased from Mr. Antonio Jimenez Moscoso in 1698, by Mr. Juan de la Luz from Dutari y Fuentes, who was originally from Navarra and settled in La Laguna for the years 1668 to 1670, where in 1689 he married Jacobina Sopranis, owner of the mayorazgo founded by her father, Don Esteban Sopranis de la Haya and Fiesco, on their Bajamar farms in Tenerife and Gu a in Gran Canaria, on March 30, 1689. The daughter of this marriage, do Rita Juana de La Luz Sopranis Dutari, cas with Don Esteban Porlier and Du-Ruth, who from France settled in La Laguna in the first years of the 18th century, and was appointed by King Louis XVI, in 1709, general consul of France.

In the offspring of this marriage the property of this house continued, in which he was born, on April 16, 1722, Don Antonio Porlier y Sopranis, president of the Council of the Indies, appointed Minister of Grace and Justice by King Charles IV in 1790, the first canary to exercise such a high position, and created by this King I Marqu s de Bajamar in 1791.

Later he went to the Salazar Frias family, when he married Juana Porlier y Castilla in 1765, in which he returned to family leadership, with Mr. Mart n Salazar de Frias and Franchi, V count of the Salazar Valley. At the end of the 19th century she was the owner of Concepci n Salazar de Frias y Chirino, daughter of the VII count of the Salazar Valley, marquise of Villanueva del Prado for her marriage to Don Fernando de Nava and grim ny del Hoyo, and she was born there and lived Ildefonso de Castro and Salazar de Fr as (1858-1935), marqu s de la Fuente de las Palmas, grandson of the seventh count of the Salazar Valley. A request for marble, remember, on the facade of the house, his memory, as director of the Band of Faith, which fills a page of the artistic history of the city of La Laguna. Don Ildefonso married his second cousin to Mar a del Pilar de Ascanio and Le n-Huerta, born from this marriage, among others, to Mar a de la Concepci n de Castro y Ascanio, which was X Marquise de la Fuente de Las Palmas by Real Dispatch of July 3, 1908, wife of Don Elicio Lecuona and D az, in whose descent the noble title has continued, and Don Fernando de Castro Ascanio, whose marriage to Cipriana Meneses and Gonz lez, they were born from Pilar and from Candelaria de Castro Meneses, current owners of the house.