President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III, who served as the chief executive of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016, passed away on June 24, 2021. This is a brief tribute to the 15th President of the Philippines. Here are the 10 things about President Aquino's genealogy: 1. The Aquino family has strong ties to central Luzon. The Aquino family has roots in the Central plains of Luzon. It is found in 1,520 cities and municipalities in the Philippines, with 215,837 people or 0.204% of the population carrying it as a last name. It is most populous in the provinces of Metro Manila, Pangasinan, Tarlac, and Pampanga with Quezon City, San Carlos City, Dagupan City, Santa Cruz, and Mangaldan being the areas with the most number of Aquinos. 2. The surname Aquino means "water". Aquino is a Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian surname that is from a personal name bestowed in honor of the great theologian St. Thomas Aquinas, which in the original Italian is Tommaso d’Aquino. As a surname, it is mostly a habitational name, designating the carrier as “one coming from a place called Aquino”. The term Aquino, on the other hand, is derived from the Latin aquinum, itself a derivative of aqua, meaning “water”. It is found on page 7 at the 6th column of the Catalogo Alfabetico de Apellidos. 3. President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III is from an unbroken line of Aquino politicians stretching back to his 3X great-grandfather. The line started with Don Hilario Aquino, who was a gobernadorcillo of Magalang in 1854. His son, Don Braulio Aquino, who was elected gobernadorcillo of Concepcion in 1885-1887. Then Servillano Aquino, his great-grandfather, who became the military governor of Tarlac province, and was later appointed as a deputy to the Malolos Congress. His grandfather, Benigno Aquino Sr., was a Senator, as was his own father, Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino III reached the highest position of the land when he became the 15th president of the Philippines in 2010. 4. The paternal grandparents of PNoy were third cousins. The parents of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., Benigno Sr. and Aurora Aquino, were third cousins. Benigno Sr.’s great-grandfather, Don Hilario Aquino, was the brother of Aurora's great-grandfather, Don Damaso Aquino. 5. One of the First Filipino Lay Doctors of Philosophy and of Laws, Dr. Don Mariano Henson, was an ancestor of PNoy Aquino Don Mariano Henson was the son of Don Severino Henson and Doña Placida Paras, a pioneering couple who had helped first cleared and settled what was then the barrio of Culiat, the northernmost outpost of San Fernando. He was conferred a doctorate by the University of Santo Tomas and later in 1824, became the first lay Filipino Doctor of Laws. 6. An ancestor of PNoy founded the town of Angeles City, Pampanga The name of Angeles, Pampanga is in honor of its patron saints, the holy guardian angels and the name of its founder, Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda, who is the the 5X great-grandfather of President Benigno Aquino III. 7. Both the Aquino and Cojuangco families, and their allied clans, have produced 21 politicians beginning in 1898. Nineteen became members of the house of representatives while 6 became Senators from the various related families of President Aquino. 8. The Cojuangco family has had an infusion of Chinese blood in every generation The first four generations of the Cojuangcos in the Philippines were all pure Chinese. The 5th generation became mestizo, but married into another Chinese mestizo family, making the 6th generation a stronger mestizo Chinese generation. President Corazon C. Aquino, being the seventh generation, approximately still has 25% Chinese ancestry. 9. An Aquino married into the Romualdez family Pacita Aquino Gueco, the half first cousin of Benigno Aquino, Sr., married Speaker Danieling Romualdez, the first cousin of former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos. This means that President Benigno Aquino III shares common cousins with the grandchildren of Imelda Marcos. 10. President Aquino was the first bachelor president, but he was not the first to be without a wife. When he became president, he became the first bachelor president. However, President Elpidio Quirino was a widower when he became president, and President Rodrigo Duterte’s marriage was already annulled upon becoming President. Please don't forget to click on the SUBSCRIBE button. You may also follow me through: Website: http://www.filipinogenealogy.com Facebook: @filipinogenealogy Twitter: @FilGenealogy For inquiries, email me at inquiry@filipinogenealogy.com CREDITS: Chart/Script: T. Sales Narration/Editing: T. Sales Intro animation: Filipino Genealogy Channel

• published: 26 Jun 2021
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