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:{{Hatnote|''This page uses {{wp|Spanish naming customs|Ascalene naming customs}}: the first or paternal {{wp|surname|family name}} is ''Matamoros Gallagán'' and the second or maternal family name is ''López de Santillana''.''}}
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| honorific-prefix   = {{wp|The Most Excellent|Excelentísimo Señor}}
| name               = Hermenegildo Matamoros Gallagán
| honorific-suffix   = The Count of Gallagán
| image              = Hermenegildo Matamoros.jpeg
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| office             = [[First Counsellor of Ascalzar]]
| term_start         = 1998
| term_end           = 15 March 2014
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| predecessor        = {{nowrap|[[Feliciano Matamoros Gallagán|Feliciano Matamoros]]}}
| successor          = {{nowrap|[[Jacobo Ordaz Acevedo]]}}
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1947|11|2}}
| birth_place     = [[Gallagán]], [[Ascalzar]]
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|2014|3|15|1947|11|2}}
| death_place     = [[Santillana]], [[Ascalzar]]
| spouse          = {{marriage|Lydia Anistia|19 March 1971}}
| children        = {{flatlist|
* [[Adriana Matamoros Gallagán|Adriana]]
* [[Rafael Matamoros Gallagán|Rafael]]
* [[Teodoro Matamoros Gallagán|Teodoro]]
* [[Porfirio Matamoros Gallagán|Porfirio]]
* [[Eunice Matamoros Gallagán|Eunice]]
* Adriana
* Porfirio}}
| parents         = [[Feliciano Matamoros Gallagán]]<br>Alba López de Santillana
| relatives       = [[House of Gallagán#Matamoros Gallagán|Matamoros family]]
| residence       = 
| alma_mater      = Balzac University<br>({{wp|Bachelor of Laws|LL.B.}}, 1971)
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{{wp|Don (honorific)|Don}} '''Hermenegildo Isidoro Luis Vicente Matamoros Gallagán y López de Santillana''' (2 November 1947 – 15 March 2014), known commonly in his life as the '''Count of Gallagán''', was an [[Ascalzar|Ascalene]] {{wp|Patrician (post-Roman Europe)|patrician}}, [[Nobility of Ascalzar|noble]], and {{wp|statesman}} who served three times as [[First Counsellor of Ascalzar|First Counsellor]] of Ascalzar. Matamoros Gallagán was a member of the highly influential [[House of Gallagán#Matamoros Gallagán|Matamoros family]] which has dominated Ascalene politics since the 15th century.

Despite beginning military training as an infantryman, he became a lawyer after graduating from [[Balzac University]] practiced law in [[Sydalon]] until 1977. In 1981, he was appointed Castellan of the Altagracia district by his uncle, the [[Gael López de Santillana|Count of Santillana]]. He first entered national politics in 1989, during [[Feliciano Matamoros Gallagán|his father]]'s First Counsellorship, being appointed to Secretariat of Justice as Deputy Solicitor General. After his father's death in office, he was elected First Counsellor in 1992, though he quickly lost the confidence of the overwhelmingly conservative [[Counsellors Assembly]] and was replaced by [[Diosdado Alarcón]] in February 1993. His second term began in 2000 and saw the introduction of new social programs, extensive government investment in public works, and the relaxation of archaic morality laws in Ascalzar. Despite his popularity, he was narrowly defeated by the conservative bloc in 2006, but was reelected in 2012 after widespread discontent with the conservative government of Alarcón following the debasement of the Ascalene currency and strict austerity measures. In 2014, he became the third First Counsellor assassinated in office. Some of his political rivals have since been implicated.

He was given a {{wp|state funeral}}, and was succeeded as Count of Gallagán by his son [[Rafael Matamoros Gallagán]]. Despite the decline of the liberal faction within the [[Counsellor's Assembly]], numerous news outlets and pundits have likened his death to a martyrdom for the progressive movement in Ascalzar, as he was a politician that had endeared himself to the commonfolk and held high approval ratings at the time of his death.

==Biography==
===Early life===
===Education===
===Early political career===
===Courtship and marriage===
In 1971, Hermenegildo was married to the [[Latium|Latin]] noblewoman Lydia Anistia. They had first met in Castellum in 1970, as he completed a semester abroad in Latium. Following his graduation from law school, his father approved of the marriage and the two were wed later the same year in a ceremony held at the Basilica of Our Lady of [[Gallagán]]. The marriage produced five children.


==First Counsellorship==
===Reforms===
===Opposition===

==Assassination==

==Legacy==

==Titles, styles, honours and arms==
===Titles and styles===
===Honours===
===Arms===

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Hermenegildo Matamoros Gallagán y López de Santillana'''
|2= 2. Feliciano Matamoros Gallagán
|3= 3. Alba López de Santillana
|4= 4. Alejandro Matamoros Gallagán
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|6= 6. Ernesto López de Santillana
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|8= 8. Victoriano Matamoros Gallagán
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|12= 12. Antonio López de Santillana
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|16= 16. Carlos Matamoros Gallagán
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|18= 18. 
|19= 19. 
|20= 20. 
|21= 21. 
|22= 22. 
|23= 23. 
|24= 24. Sergio López de Santillana
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==See also==
* [[List of First Counsellors of Ascalzar]]

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[[category:Ascalzar]]