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Domingo Dominguín
Born
Domingo González Mateos

(1895-08-04)4 August 1895
Died21 August 1958(1958-08-21) (aged 63)
Madrid, Spain
Other namesDomingo Dominguín
Occupation Matador
Children5, including Luis

Domingo González Mateos, better known as Domingo Dominguín (4 August 1895 – 21 August 1958), was a Spanish bullfighter and progenitor of a dynasty of bullfighters.

Career

He was born in Quismondo in the province of Toledo into a peasant family. He left agriculture to take part in rural bullfights (capeas) until he took his alternativa on 26 September 1917 in Madrid with Joselito ( José Gómez Ortega) for sponsor, facing a bull from the Contreras line. [1]

Until 1922 he performed at an honourable level but then suffered a rapid decline and retired from the bullring. He became an apoderado and an outstanding manager of bullfighters, including his youngest son Luis Miguel Dominguín and his future son-in-law Antonio Ordóñez. [2] [3]

Family

Dominguín married Gracia Lucas Lorente, with whom he had five children: Domingo, José, Gracia, Luis Miguel and Carmen. All three sons were well-known bullfighters, as Domingo González Lucas (also known as Dominguín), José González Lucas (also known as Pepe Dominguín) and Luis Miguel Dominguín, the best-known of them, whose son is the singer Miguel Bosé. Dominguín's elder daughter Gracia had a daughter herself who married the bullfighter Ángel Teruel, while his younger daughter Carmen married the bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez; their daughter, the socialite Carmen Ordóñez, married as his first wife the bullfighter Francisco Rivera Pérez, known as Paquirri. [1] [4]

References

  1. ^ a b Paul Casanova and Pierre Dupuy, Toreros pour l'histoire. Besançon: La Manufacture, 1991 ( ISBN  2737702690)
  2. ^ MemoriaDeMadrid.es - Calle del Principe 35
  3. ^ "Pepe Dominguín, el último torero romántico", El País, 6 July 2003
  4. ^ Hola.com: La nostalgia de Francisco Rivera al recordar la boda de sus padres, 18 February 2019