page_title: José María Lamamié de Clairac y Colina
section_title: Family and youth
hierarchical_section_title: José María Lamamié de Clairac y Colina / Family and youth
caption_attribution_description: English: Sofia Alonso Moreno with her Lamamie de Clairac Alonso sons
context_page_description: José María Lamamié de Clairac y Colina was a Spanish politician. He supported the Traditionalist cause, until the early 1930s as an Integrist and afterwards as a Carlist. Among the former he headed the regional León branch, among the latter he rose to nationwide executive and became one of the party leaders in the late 1930s and the 1940s. In 1931-1936 he served 2 terms in the Cortes; in 1915-1920 he was member of the Salamanca ayuntamiento. In historiography he is known mostly as representative of Castilian terratenientes; as president of Confederación Nacional Católico-Agraria he tried to preserve the landowner-dominated rural regime, first opposing the Republican and later the Francoist designs.
context_section_description: The Lamamiés originated from the French Languedoc; Etienne La Mamye de Clairac was a military and held high administrative posts in Flanders in the late 17th century. His son arrived in Spain with Felipe de Anjou in the 1720s and became known as Claudio Lamamié de Clairac y Dubois; he served on various military command posts during the following 4 decades. Claudio’ son Miguel Lamamié de Clairac y Villalonga was the first to settle on estates granted to him near Salamanca in the late 18th century. His son and the grandfather of José María, José Ramón Lamamié de Clairac y Tirado (1784-1847), a military like his ancestors, fought against the French during Napoleonic wars; though he massively benefitted from liberal desamortización, he turned a Carlist supporter when senile. His son and the father of José María, Juan Lamamié de Clairac y Trespalacios (1831-1919), was among the largest provincial landowners. Detained for plotting a legitimist rising, he returned from exile in the 1870s; he then owned numerous Carlist provincial periodicals. In the 1880s Lamamié joined the breakaway Integrist branch of Traditionalism and was its regional León jefé; in 1907-1910 he served as Integrist MP in the Cortes and entered the national party executive.
  Following childless death of his wife, in 1882 Lamamié de Clairac y Trespalacios remarried with Celestina de la Colina Fernández-Cavada (1859-1946), the native of Burgos. The couple had at least 8 children, born when the father was in his 50s and 60s; 4 of them died in early infancy. José María was born as the third son, but as his oldest brother perished and the second oldest became a religious, it was him who inherited the family wealth. Some sources suggest he received early education in the Salamanca Instituto General y Técnico, others maintain that he frequented Seminario de Salamanca, then studied with “los jesuítas en Comillas”, and obtained bachillerato in the Jesuit Valladolid college in or around 1905. He then studied law in Valladolid and graduated with excellent marks in 1909; some sources mention also his agricultural education. 
  In 1910 Lamamié married a local girl, Sofía Alonso Moreno (1887-1970); she came from the local bourgeoisie family. They settled at Lamamié family estate in the Salamanca province, in-between Alba de Tormes and Babilafuente. Though Lamamié is often referred in historiography as “rico ganadero y terrateniente” or “grande terrateniente” it is not clear what the actual size of his estates was. Various sources claim that the couple had 9 to 11 children. Raised in the very religious ambience, at least 6 of them joined religious orders; some served in America, some grew to local prominence and one son was killed as a requeté chaplain in 1937. The family heir Tomás Lamamié de Clairac Alonso did not become a public figure, though he held high executive functions in SEAT and other companies. Neither the Lamamié de Clairac Delgado nor the Liaño Pacheco Lamamié grandchildren grew to prominence; the best known, Pilar Lamamié de Clairac Delgado, is a pediatrician.
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