Early Life
Villavicencio was born on January 9, 1775, in Quito, Ecuador, which at the time formed part of the Viceroyalty of the New Granada. His parents were Juan Fernando de Villavicencio y Guerrero, II Count of the Real Agrado and Knight of the Order of Santiago, and doña Joaquina Verástegui y Dávila, daughter of the Oidor and Mayor of the Real Audiencia of Santa Fe de Bogota.
Villavicencio attended Our Lady of the Rosary University and afterwards his parents sent him to Spain to study in the College of Noble Americans in the city of Granada, where he studied in the Spanish Armada, and earning the grade of Second Lieutenant in the Navy.
He returned to New Granada in Cartagena de Indias as a Frigate Lieutenant patrolling the Atlantic Cost.
In 1804 he returned to Spain, this time serving in the Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. He fought in the Battle of Trafalgar on October 25, 1805 serving as Second Lieutenant of Antonio de Escaño.
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