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Casa de la Corregidora, the house where Josefa resided during the conspiracy. Ortiz de Domínguez was the daughter of don Juan José Ortiz; [3] a captain of Los Verdes regiment, and his wife doña Manuela Girón [1] [3] Ortiz was born in Valladolid (today Morelia, Michoacán). [3] Her godmother was doña Ana María de Anaya. [1]
Josefa Ortiz was able to alert a fellow conspirator in the house next door, Ignacio Pérez. On September 15, 1810, Pérez rode to San Miguel, and from there to Dolores to give the warning. In the early morning of the following day, September 16, 1810, Hidalgo gave the Grito de Dolores , signaling the beginning of the war for Mexican independence.
In 1910, Leona Vicario and Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez were the first women to be depicted on Mexican stamps and the second women to be depicted on stamps in Latin America. [4] In February 2010, seven months before Mexico celebrated its 200 years of independence, Mexican writer Carlos Pascual published the novel "La Insurgenta."
At the entrance of the city stand the statues of Ignacio Allende, Juan Aldama, Miguel Hidalgo and Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, with one of the Archangel Michael in the center. [30] While the outlying areas of the town and municipality have changed over time, the historic center remains much as it was 250 years ago.
The most prominent female hero of the independence movement is Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, known in Mexican history as La Corregidora. Her remains were moved to the Monument to Independence in Mexico City, there are statues of her in her honor, and her face has appeared on Mexican currency.
The tentacles of the conspiracy had spread from the city of Queretaro throughout the Bajio region. The conspirators included military officers Ignacio Allende and Juan Aldama, the Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo, and the Mayor (Corregidor) of Queretaro, Miguel Dominguez, and his wife Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, called "la Corregidora ...
Today it houses the government of the state of Querétaro. Its name comes from its most famous occupant, Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, who was the wife of the mayor or corregidor of the city. Ortiz de Domínguez is a heroine of the Mexican War of Independence and the Conspiracy of 1810 that led to the start of the war which occurred here. [8]
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez – Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez ″La Corregidora″, (1768–1829), hero of the Mexican War of Independence Merced Gómez – Merced Gomez, Sr. Miguel Alemán – Miguel Alemán Valdés or his father Miguel Alemán González (1884–1929), general in the Mexican Revolution