María Consolación Azlor, Countess of Bureta

María Consolación Azlor de Villavicencio, Countess of Bureta and Baroness of Valdeolivos, was, together with Augustina de Aragón, one of the great heroines of the defence of Zaragoza against the French during the Spanish War of Independence. Born in Gerona on 12 May 1775, she was the daughter of Manuel de Azlor y Urríes, Lieutenant General and Viceroy of Navarre, and his wife, Petronila de Villavicencio. In 1794 she married the Count of Bureta, from whom she was widowed in 1805, subsequently marrying the Baron of Valdeolivos, Principal Judge of the Court of Aragon, on 1 October 1808. María Consolación Azlor de Villavicencio died in childbirth on 23 December 1814. An extremely attractive, courageous woman, in addition to tending the wounded and supplying provisions to the combatants, when her house when on the point of being attacked María Consolación assembled two artillery barricades on the street and waited for the enemy behind them in order to attack.