Plácido Vega y Daza

Who was Plácido Vega y Daza?

General and Governor of the Mexican state Sinaloa, Don Plácido de la Vega Daza y Colon de Portugal was a 13th generation descendant of Viceroy and 1st Admiral of the Ocean Sea Cristopher Columbus, and was also direct descendant of Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. His ancestors were members of royalty and nobility of Spain, Portugal, England, France, and Germany among many others. In the late 1700s, his family settled in New Spain and became the major political and commercial influence of Northern Mexico. His family owned vast lands, valleys, and gold mines, but he did not sympathize with his family's ideology of repression of the poor. Although members of his family had previously held his position as Sinaloa governors, he prevented his relatives from having access to politics when he became Governor at the age of 29.

Plácido de la Vega was a native of El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico. Born to Don Francisco Xavier de la Vega y Esquer and María Dolores Daza, great grandson of [Don Baltasar Ignacio de la Vega Enriquez y Colón de Portugal and Ana Irene de la Puente y Villegas. He was an idealist with strong temperament, and found in the military a career that best suited his intellectual and idealistic pursuits. His present day descendants reside in Northern Mexico and the United States.