Manuel de Sarratea

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Manuel de Sarratea
Governor of Buenos Aires Province
In office
18 February 1820 – 6 March 1820
Preceded byMatías de Irigoyen
Succeeded byJuan Ramón Balcarce
Governor of Buenos Aires Province
In office
11 March 1820 – 2 May 1820
Preceded byJuan Ramón Balcarce
Succeeded byIldefonso Ramos Mexía
Member of the First Triumvirate
In office
23 September 1811 – 8 October 1812
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded bySecond Triumvirate
Personal details
Born11 August 1774
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
Died21 September 1849(1849-09-21) (aged 75)
Limoges, France
NationalityArgentine

Manuel Mariano Hipólito de Sarratea y Altolaguirre (11 August 1774 – 21 September 1849) was an Argentine diplomat, politician and soldier. He served in the First Triumvirate (1811–1812) and twice as governor of Buenos Aires Province in 1820, when he signed the Treaty of Pilar. He later held diplomatic posts in Great Britain, Brazil and France.[1][2]

Early life and first public roles

Sarratea was born in Buenos Aires into a merchant family linked to transatlantic trade networks. He was educated in Spain and returned to the Río de la Plata on the eve of the independence process. He rose to prominence in the post-May Revolution governments and on 23 September 1811 became one of the three members of the First Triumvirate, with Feliciano A. Chiclana and Juan José Paso.[3][4]

Diplomatic activity, 1814–1816

After the restoration of Ferdinand VII of Spain (1814), Sarratea undertook diplomatic missions in Europe. Contemporary and later studies describe negotiations around constitutional-monarchical options considered in London and Madrid in 1815–1816.[5]

Buenos Aires governor (1820)

Following the defeat of the Directorio at the Battle of Cepeda and the dissolution of central authorities, Buenos Aires established a provincial government. Sarratea was appointed governor on 18 February 1820.[6] On 23 February he signed, with Estanislao López and Francisco Ramírez, the Treaty of Pilar, which provided a framework for peace among the provinces and envisaged the convocation of a federal congress.[7]

Documents preserved by the Buenos Aires municipal library include orders related to confidential clauses of the treaty, such as the delivery of arms to federal forces (Buenos Aires, 4 March 1820).[8] Military resistance in the capital forced Sarratea to resign on 6 March; Juan Ramón Balcarce served briefly, after which Sarratea resumed office from 11 March to 2 May 1820, being succeeded by Ildefonso Ramos Mexía.[9] For the subsequent institutional transition, contemporary broadsides document Ramos Mejía’s enactments and the provisional arrangements of June 1820.[10]

Later diplomacy

Sarratea returned to diplomatic service in the 1820s. Archival inventories record him as Encargado de Negocios in London (1825–1827), within the framework of relations established by the 1825 Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation.[11][12] Under Juan Manuel de Rosas he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to the Court of Rio de Janeiro during the French blockade (1838), a mission analyzed in recent scholarship.[13]

Death

Sarratea died in Limoges, France, on 21 September 1849.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Manuel de Sarratea y Altolaguirre". Historia Hispánica (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "Listado de lugares y autoridades para elementos "Lugares" y "Contexto general"" (PDF). Argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Ministerio del Interior (AGN). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "Manuel de Sarratea y Altolaguirre". Historia Hispánica (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Archivo Manuel Belgrano (Catálogo): "Comunican la constitución del Poder Ejecutivo (Triunvirato) recaído en Sarratea, Chiclana y Paso"". Museo Mitre (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  5. ↑ Segreti, Carlos S. A. (2011). "Belgrano y la monarquía" (PDF). Anales de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Morales y Políticas (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  6. ↑ "Listado de lugares y autoridades…" (PDF). Argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Ministerio del Interior (AGN). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "Pacto del Pilar (texto)" (PDF). Departamento de Historia, UNNE (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "Pacto celebrado en la Capilla del Pilar entre los gobernadores de Buenos Aires, Santa Fe y Entre Ríos (documentos relativos a los compromisos secretos)" (PDF). Biblioteca Digital – Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  9. ↑ "Listado de lugares y autoridades…" (PDF). Argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Ministerio del Interior (AGN). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  10. ↑ "Don Ildefonso Ramos Mexía, gobernador y capitán general de esta provincia… (bando, 1820)". Internet Archive. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  11. ↑ "Inventario por unidad de conservación, División Gobierno Nacional (extracto)" (PDF). Argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Archivo General de la Nación. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  12. ↑ "Tratado de Amistad, Comercio y Navegación con Gran Bretaña (1825)" (PDF). Departamento de Historia, UNNE (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  13. ↑ Kloster, María José (2019). "Reflexiones sobre la actividad diplomática de la Confederación Argentina durante el bloqueo francés (1838–1840)". Nuevos Mundos – Mundos Nuevos (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  14. ↑ "Manuel de Sarratea y Altolaguirre". Historia Hispánica (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  • Pacto del Pilar (text and related documents), Biblioteca Digital de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: