Because of the Irish ancestry of Berenguer de Marquina coming from the noble Fitzgerald clan, he descends from some Norman French or English, and European nobles such as
Saint Begga of Belgium by forty degrees. St. Begga is the great-great grandmother of King
Charlemagne and daughter-in-law to
St. Arnulf of Metz, France. The great-great grandson of Berenguer de Marquina is
Ananías Diokno, who also descends from
William Boleyn, who is the grandfather of
Elizabeth I of England. Berenguer de Marquina had an illegitimate Chinese mestiza daughter from
Cagsawa, Albay who married a Spanish-Mexican public servant surnamed Sauza, whose daughter settled in Taal, Batangas, marrying a member of the
Tagalog Noblejas clan. Their daughter María Andrea Noblejas y Sauza (born c. 1834), who descended from Berenguer de Marquina, became part of the Diokno family by marrying Ángel Diokno (born c. 1830). Because of the Fitzgerald clan, the line at least starting Ananías Diokno y Noblejas can trace its roots to nobles, public servants, soldiers, and saints from the first century A.D.[3][4]
Notable members of the main branch of the Ananías Diokno family include:
Ananías Diokno, (1860-1922), son of Ángel Diokno, Filipino general and early patriarch of the family
Ramón Diokno, (1886-1954), son of Ananías, Filipino justice and senator
Jose W. Diokno, (1922-1987), third son and sixth child of Ramón Diokno and Leonor Garcia Wright, Filipino nationalist and senator.
Pepe Diokno (born 1987), eldest child of Chel, Filipino director
Non-Immediate relatives outside the main branch of Ananías Diokno
Marcela Mariño de Agoncillo, wife of
Felipe Agoncillo and daughter of Francisco Diokno Mariño, she is called "The Mother of the Philippine Flag," who sewed the original flag of the Philippines, first unfurled at the declaration of Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898, while her Taal ancestral home owned by Francisco Mariño has been converted into a museum in Agoncillo's name. Furthermore, they share another common ancestor (a
Galician) named Ricardo Alfonso Sauza y Holguín, making Agoncillo the third cousin once removed of Ananías Diokno, or third cousin four times removed of Chel Diokno. Chel Diokno and Agoncillo share this relation while simultaneously being linked as cousins in a different degree through another common ancestor surnamed Diokno, and are also related through a common ancestor from
Batangas surnamed Marasigan.[5][6]
Fr. Jose Diokno, (1819), A Filipino secular priest, appointed from 1819 to 1859 as a parish priest. Donated the painting of the Fifteen Mysteries of the Holy Rosary (Our Lady of Loreto), recorded in the book of inventory of the church properties, February 10, 1855.
Mariano Diokno, Filipino Soldier
Felisa Punzalan Diokno, secretary to President Emilio Aguinaldo.
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