Manuel Xavier Rodrguez Erdoza was a Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Rodrguez was of Basque descent.
He was born onFebruary 1785 and was the son of Don Carlos Rodrguez de Herrera y Zeballos, a customs officer from Spain, and Mara Loreto de Erdoiza y Aguirre who was a young lady aristocrat from Peru.
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