Col. Eusebio R. de Luzuriaga
1816 - 27 March 1865

The first LUZURIAGA in the Philippines was Col. Eusebio R. de Luzuriaga, a colonel in the Spanish army during the Carlist regime. Rather than stay in Spain after the defeat of the Carlist regime in the civil war wherein Queen Isabel II was restored to the throne (she later abdicated in favor of her son Alfonso XII), Col. Eusebio R. de Luzuriaga together with other champions of the Carlists regime chose to exile themselves from Spain. Col. Eusebio R. de Luzuriaga settled in Bacolod, Negros Occidental in 1840 to become a farmer and establish his roots permanently in the Philippines.