Seventeenth century Governor of Manila. Purveyor of Felipe IV. In 1643 appointed as Governor of Manila, The Philippines. He died in Fonz in 1731.

Seventeenth century Governor of Manila. Purveyor of Felipe IV. In 1643 appointed as Governor of Manila, The Philippines. He died in Fonz in 1731.

Eighteenth century Attorney General of the Indies. Born in 1723 and died in 1808 in Zaragoza. Of noble lineage, he gave name at the end of the eighteenth century to the house in Fonz called “Fiscal de Indias”.

He was a judge in Huesca, prosecutor forthe Royal Audience of Quito (administrative unit in the Spanish Empire), magistrate and prosecutor for the Audience of Guatemala, Criminal Magistratefor the Audience of México.

Prosecutor and House Counsel of the Indies in Madrid. He inherited the title from his older brother, Don Pedro of Aragón, the first noble Baron Minglana.

The third Baron of Valdeolivos. Born in Fonz in 1766. Rector of the University of Huesca.Chaplain of his Holiness to Pope Pius VI. In 1795 he started an intense political life, was appointed Criminal Magistrate in the Aragón parliament, later becoming its regent.

Married to the Countess of Bureta, both played a prominent role in the War for Independence. Member of the Higher Defense Board chaired by Palafox, whom Ric replaced due to illness.

He was a senator for Aragón in the Cadiz parliament where he defended an admittedly ambitious project: the need for a seaport for Aragón. 

Historien. Descendant d’une famille illustre, comptant la personne du béat Dalmatio Moner parmi ses ancêtres. Défenseur de la Maison d’Autriche pendant la Guerre de Succession. Il fonde un Institut d’Enseignement à Fonz. Député provincial pour la ville de Huesca.

Publiciste infatigable, il écrit sur les questions les plus diverses : histoire, philosophie, grammaire, droit… Au Congrès de Jurisconsulte de Saragosse, il défend avec courage le Droit Foral (propre à une province) Aragonais.

Il meurt à Fonz en 1907.

Arabist, nineteenth century academic. Born in Fonz in 1836. Son of wealthy farmers, reached a height of universal scientific renown. Earned his doctorate at the University of Barcelona in 1865.

He held the first chair of Latin and Greek at the Institute of Lleída, later Greek, Arabic and Hebrew chairs at the University of Granada, between 1868 and 1874 chair of Arabic at the University of Zaragoza.

He finished his academic career at the University of Madrid. Codera y Zaidín was named Academic of the Royal Madrid Academy of Language and History.

His most famous work was the 1878 “Treaty of the Spanish Arabic Numismatics”, still fundamental to these studies.

Baron Valdeolivos V. Born in Fonz in 1844. Law degree. Added as a diplomat to the Ministry of State in 1870.

Ambassador to Chile and China.Secretary of the foreign delegations of China, Turkey, Greece, Constantinople, Buenos Aires, Athens and The Hague.

Resident Minister of Spain in Egypt where he died in 1895.

Heraldist. Baron Valdeolivos VI. Born in Fonz in 1876. Important scholar of heraldry and sigillography. In 1928 he was appointed advisor to the Royal Cavalry of Zaragoza, in 1930 appointed Academician of the San Luis Royal Academy of Noble and Fine Arts.

Starting in 1932, he contributed works to the magazine “Aragón”. He was a history scholar. Director of the Ferdinand the Catholic Institution.

President of the Provincial Commission of Artistic and Historic Monuments of Zaragoza.

Nineteenth century literary figure. Born in Fonz in 1875. Writer, journalist and literary critic. He graduated in pharmacy from the University of Barcelona in 1895.

He soon showed a clear literary tendency. In Barcelona he became an integral part of the modernist core “L' Avenç”: Rusinyol, Gual, Opisso ... and at the same time with literature being composed in Italy and France. His literary production began in the “Pharmaceutical Bulletin of Barcelona” and other magazines, where he used the pseudonym “The Talking Traveler”.

In 1896 he moved to Sevillewhere he published some works. In the beginning of the century in Madrid he contributed to publications such as “Electra”, “La lectura”, “Revista Nueva” and “Juventud”. In 1899 he published “Contemporary Soul”, a work which landed him as being described as the theorist spirit of the new generation.

After working at various military hospitals, in 1912 he ascended to the post in Melilla of premier pharmacist. Shortly afterwards, he began showing symptoms of a serious mental illness that would plague him until his death in Huesca in 1921.

Pharmacist. Born in Fonz in 1912. She discovered a low cost disinfectant composition she named mercurochrome, which everyone calls Mercromina.

During the sixties she worked in laboratories in Barcelona. Subsequently, she moved to Sitges where she died.

Lay missionary born in Fonz in 1930. She studied law and at 38 she left her homeland for Perú, where she fought for and continues to defend human rights. A favorite “daughter of Fonz” even today. In 1990 she received the Letelier International Human Rights Award.

She was Executive Secretary of Coordination and developed a volunteer-based work project in the prisons and slums of Lima.

In 2004 she was part of a thousand women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize .

Baroness Valdeolivos IX.

In 1991 the Government of Aragón awarded her and her sisters the Medal of Cultural Merit.