Vergara family

Vergara family
Aristocracy, political family
CountrySpain
Chile
Colombia
United States
Current regionAmericas and Europe
Earlier spellingsBergara
EtymologyElevated Fern
Place of originVergara, Guipúzcoa, Spain

The Vergara family is one of the most aristocratic families of Colombia and Chile with origins in Bergara, Spain. The House of Vergara had its period of greatest influence between the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The family is spread across several branches in Spain, Colombia, Chile and the US. Considered one of the first families of Spaniards in the Americas having arrived first as conquistadors, and royal officers of the Spanish crown. The Vergara Family have produced four presidents of Colombia by the same surname; and three more related by blood.[1] Other branch is considered amongst the founding families of Chile. Originally from Gipuzkoa, Spain, more specifically from Bergara, the Municipality in Basque Country.[2]

Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain
  1. ^ Vergara Azcárate, F. d. (1962). Relación genealógica. Colombia: Kelly.
  2. ^ Vergara y Vergara, Julio C. (1952). Don Antonio de Vergara Azcárate y sus descendientes: La colonia. La independencia. J. Pueyo.