María Isabel Riquelme de la Barrera y Meza (1758 – April 21, 1839), was the mother of Chilean independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins. Isabel Riquelme was of Basque descent.[1]

Isabel Riquelme
First Lady of Chile
In role
February 17, 1817 – January 28, 1823
PresidentBernardo O'Higgins
Personal details
Born
María Isabel Riquelme de la Barrera y Meza

1758 (1758)
Chillán, Captaincy General of Chile, Spanish Empire
DiedApril 21, 1839(1839-04-21) (aged 80–81)
Lima, Peru
Spouse(s)
Félix Rodríguez y Rojas
(m. 1780; died 1782)

Manuel de Puga y Figueroa
Children
Parent(s)Simón Riquelme de la Barrera y Goycochea
María Mercedes de Mesa y Ulloa

She was born in Chillán, the second daughter of Simón Riquelme de la Barrera y Goycochea and of María Mercedes de Mesa y Ulloa. At the age of 19, she became pregnant by 58-year-old Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno, future viceroy of Peru.

She married twice, first in 1780 to Félix Rodríguez y Rojas, by whom she had a daughter, Rosa Rodríguez y Riquelme (Chillán, August 30, 1781 – Lima, 1850). Her husband died in 1782, and she married her second husband, Manuel de Puga y Figueroa, by whom she had another daughter named Maria de las Nieves de Puga y Riquelme in 1793.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by First Lady of Chile
1817–1823
Succeeded by