Antenor Patiño


Antenor Patiño Rodríguez was a Bolivian tycoon, heir to his father Simón I. Patiño, called "the King of Tin".

Family

He married firstly in Paris, France on 8 April 1931 Doña María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús, 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal, a relative of King of Spain Alfonso XIII. The couple had two daughters:Doña María Cristina Patiño y Borbón, 4th Duchess of Dúrcal, who married three times with:
  • # Marc Charles Louis Joseph Marie, 7th Prince of Beauvau-Craon in Paris on 11 December 1952, later divorced. Had two daughters:
  • #*Princess Marie Isabelle de Beauvau-Craon married first to Duncan Hugh McLaren in 1978, without issue, and secondly in 1986 to Javier Botana, nephew of Natalio Botana, with issue.
  • #*Princess Marie Diane de Beauvau-Craon was married to Ahmed Mohamadialal. She and Ahmed Mohamadialal were divorced in 1985. Have issue.
  • # Ernst Schneider, and had one daughter:
  • #*Maria Christine Schneider married Patrick-Olivier Picourt in 1987.
  • # Kristo Kurteff, without issue.Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón who had a short and tragic marriage with:
  • *Sir James Goldsmith, by whom she had one daughter:
  • **Isabel Goldsmith married in 1973. She and de Rosnay were divorced in 1975, without issue.
He married secondly in London, Middlesex, on 8 January 1960 Contessa Beatriz di Rovasenda née de Rivera y Digeon, former wife of Piedmontese Count Giovanni Lodovico di Rovasenda, without issue. From this marriage he had two stepdaughters, born from Beatriz's first marriage to Conte :donna Isabella Manuela di Rovasenda. She married Count Henri-Jean de Castellane in 1960 and they divorced in 1979. Have issue.donna Maria Elena di Rovasenda. She married Pierre Le Blan in February 1956. They later divorced.

Business

In 1947, he made a successful effort to rid his company of organized labor. The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 nationalised Patiño's mines and it is claimed that his heir Antenor Patiño had his hand in the military coup that deposed the leader of the revolution, then President Víctor Paz Estenssoro, in the 1960s.
With his fortune, amongst other things, he developed tourist destinations like Las Hadas, in Manzanillo, Mexico, and Las Alamandas in Jalisco state, also in Mexico.