Mamerto Natividad
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General Mamerto Natividad |
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June 12, 1871 Bacolor, Pampanga, |
| Died | November 11, 1897 (aged 26) Entablado, Cabiao, Nueva Ecija |
| Buried | Biak-na-Bato, Bulacan |
| Allegiance | Freemason, La Liga Filipina, Katipunan, Philippine Revolutionary Army |
| Rank | General |
| Battles/wars | Philippine Revolution |
| Spouse(s) | Trinidad Tinio |
General Mamerto Alejandrino Natividad, Jr. (June 12, 1871 – November 11, 1897) was a haciendero and a Filipino military leader who led numerous successful battles during the Philippine Revolution against the Spaniards. He is credited with establishing army headquarters at Biak Na Bato, which today is a national park because of its historical significance. Together with Jose Clemente Zulueta, he wrote the proclamation entitled “To The Brave Sons of the Philippines”, which called for the expulsion of the friars from the Philippines. General Mamerto Natividad, Jr. was a signatory to the Biak Na Bato convention, but a steadfast dissenter to the Treaty of Biak Na Bato, which asked for peace and reforms. He preferred independence.
He was born on June 12, 1871 in Bacolor, Pampanga, the eldest of 12 children of Mamerto Natividad Sr., a practicing lawyer, and Gervasia Alejandrino. He came from a prosperous family that owned haciendas in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija.
At age six, Mamerto (Mamertito) was sent to study in Manila in the school of Jose Flores in Binondo and later at Ateneo Municipal de Manila and College of San Juan de Letran, Department of Commerce. He was one of the student leaders when a strike threatened to divide the college into regional camps. In his second year, he dropped out, returning to Nueva Ejica to help manage his family’s landholdings.
At age 13, Mamertito was supervising his father’s farms in San Vicente and San Carlos in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija.
He was known for firing a gun at a Spanish justice of the peace who slapped his younger brother for failing to show respect to the Spaniard and a certain priest. He was incarcerated, but later escaped. He tried to kill a Spaniard who harassed the Natividads in their hacienda in Sapang, Jaen. He fired at the Spaniard but the shot did not kill him.
On Dec. 2, 1893, he married Trinidad Tinio, daughter of Don Casimiro Tinio or Capitan Berong of Aliaga, Nueva Ecija. Their union produced two daughters who died young, one at two years and seven months and the other only a week old.
The couple started farming in a barrio then known as Likab (presently Quezon) then moved to Jaen where they farmed for another year. Mamertito was directing tenants in Matamo, Arayat, Pampanga a year later.
They traveled to Manila for medical treatment after Trinidad miscarried. When the revolution broke out in August 1896, Mamertito decided to return home after learningg that Cabiao was among the rebels.
Mamertito and Trinidad traveled to Matamo to elude arrest. Three days later, Mamertito's mother arrived, informing them that their father had been executed by Spanish authorities on September 26, 1896 in San Isidro, together with attorney Marcos Ventus. Mamerto Natividad, Sr. had been recently initiated into the Katipunan. He was arrested for sedition, tortured and killed.
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