rizal's linage

• Rizal's lineage

  Jose Rizal is known to be a mixture of races, in his veins, runs the blood of the blending of the East and West
• Rizal's paternal lineage

  • Great-great grandfather Domingo Lam-co (Cua Gi Lam) (Chinese)
  • Great-great grandmother Ines de la Rosa (Chinese)
  • Great grandfather Francisco Mercado (Chinese)
  • Great grandmother Bernarda Monicha (Chinese-Filipino)
  • Grandfather Juan Mercado (Chinese-Filipino)
  • Grandmother Cirila Alejandra (Chinese-Filipino)
  • Father Francisco Mercado (Chinese-Filipino)
• Rizal's maternal lineage


  • Great-great grandfather Eugenio Ursua (Japanese)
  • Great-great grandmother Benigna (no surname) (Filipino)
  • Great grandfather Manuel Facundo de Quintos (Filipino-Chinese)
  • Great grandmother Regina Ursua (Filipino-Japanese)
  • Grandfather Lorenzo Alberto Alonzo (Spanish-Filipino)
  • Grandmother Brigida de Quintos (Filipino-Chinese-Japanese)
  • Mother Teodora Alonso Realonda (Japanese-Filipino-Chinese-Spanish)
• Jose Rizal was born on the 19th day of June 1861 in Calamba, Laguna, between eleven and midnight of Wednesday
• Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda


  Rizal's full name
• Saint Joseph and Saint Protasius