Julia Leonor Valenzuela

Nationality: Filipino Nationality: Filipino

Relationship Status: Crazy Relationship Status: Just
love Friends
Rizal’s Age: Probably in his Rizal's Age: 17
pre-teens Where they met: House of
How they met: Julia was Dona Concha Leyva in
taking a bath with Rizal’s Intramuros, as his
grandmother in Los Baños neighbor.
How she looked: Rizal saw Expression of Love: Wrote
Julia wrapped in her red letters using invisible ink.
tapis, with her long hair flowing down her shoulders. He then taught her how to
Gift to Julia: 2 butterflies and some wild flowers. read the letters by heating
Reason of Separation: Rizal went back to Calamba them over a lamp or a
yearning for her. The two never met again. candle.
Reason of Separation: Rizal remain loyal to his love,
Segunda Loenor Rivera.

Katigbak Leonor Rivera

Nationality: Filipino Nationality: Filipino
Relationship Status: Relationship Status: Broken Engagement
Puppy love Rizal's Age: 17
Rizal's Age: 16 Blood Relation: Second cousin
Where they met: Lipa, Third Party: Leonor Valenzuela
Batangas Greatest Obstacle:
Description: "She was Leonor's parents, Antonio
rather short, with eyes and Silvestra Rivera,
that were eloquent and destroyed all of Rizal's
ardent at times and languid at others, rosy-cheeked, letter.
with an enchanting and provocative smile that Description: "Tender as a
revealed very beautiful teeth, and the air of a sylph; budding flower with
her entire self diffused a mysterious charm." kindly, wistful eyes." - Rizal
– Rizal Reason of Separation: In
Gift to Rizal: Her photograph and a white paper the autumn of 1890, Rizal
roseshe clipped on his hand band. received a letter from
Gift to Segunda: Her skecthed potrait Leonor telling him of her
Reason of Separation: Segunda was already engaged coming marriage to a man
to be married to her townmate, Manuel Luz whom her mother chose to be her mate.

Consuelo Ortiga y
Perez
Nationality: Spanish
Relationship Status: Rebound girl
Rizal's Age: 21 - 22
Where they met: Rizal frequented to the home of Don
Pablo Ortiga y Rey, the former city mayor of Manila.
Gift to C.O.y.P: Native cloths, Paris music sheets, the
first flower from a houseplant
Rizal's dedication: A La Senorita C.O.y.P
Rival: Eduardo de Lete
Reason of Separation: Rizal's romance with Consuelo
Suzanne
did not turn into a serious affair; he decided to take a
step back for two reasons; First, he was still engaged to
Jacoby
Nationality:
Leonor Rivera; Second, he was aware of his friend's
Luxembourgerish
affection to Consuelo.
Relationship Status:
Flirtatious friendship/
Unrequited love
Rizal's Age: 29
Date they met: January
28, 1890
Place they met: Brussels,
O-Sei-San Belgium
Nationality: Japanese How they met: Rizal boarded in Suzzane’s aunt during
Relationship Status: One- his stay in Brussels.
Two month love affair Reason of Separation: Rizal left Brussels for Madrid in
Rizal's Age: 27 July 1890.
Where they met: Tokyo,
Japan
Nellie
Description: "You have Boustead
the color of Camelia, its Nationality: French
freshness, its elegance" Relationship Status: Failed
- Rizal Proposal
Reason of Separation: Year they met: 1891
Rizal was almost tempted to settle down in Japan with Where they met: Boustead
O-Sei-San. But he had set his sights on other matters. family's winter residence,
He then decided to leave Japan and forget his Villa Eliada (Biarritz,
romance which pained him gravely because he truly France)
loved O-Sei-San. Rival: Antonio Luna
Description: Mestiza daughter of a Filipina and a
Gertrude wealthy French-English
merchant whose house
Beckett was frequented by Filipinos
Nationality: British in France.
Rizal's Age: 27 Reason of Separation:
Relationship Status: Rizal's marriage proposal
Blossoming romance failed because Nellie
Date They Met: May 1888 demanded that Rizal give
Where they met: Boarding up his Catholic faith and
house of the Beckett convert to Protestanism.
Family in London.
How she looked: A buxom
young lady with blue eyes, brown hair and a rosy
Josephine
cheeks. Bracken
Last Gift: A pair or brooches. Nationality: Irish
Reason of Separation: Rizal withdrew his feelings Relationship Status: Married
before having a relationship with Gertrude, realizing Rizal's Age: 33
that he had a greater mission to fulfill. How they met: Rizal was giving George Tauffer,
Josephine's adoptive father, treatment for his
blindness.
Rough Patch: Josephine left for Maniala in March 1895
as George Tauffer threatened suicide. However, she
was back in Rizal's arms by April, leaving her adoptive
father alone in Hong Kong.
Miscarriage: Josephine would habe concieved Rizal's
heir. However toward the end of 1885, she had
miscarriage.
Contoversy 1: Josephine was either a spy of the friars.
Contoversy 2: Rizal signed a retraction to marry her.
Role in Rizal's literature: Rizal amiga and alegria in
Ultimo Adios
Child: Franciso Rizal, little boy of eight months was
born, who lived for only three hours.
Reason of Separation: Rizal regarded Josephine as his
wife until his last breath. Two years after Rizal was
executed, Bracken married Vicente Abad.
Rizal on Josephine: "Goodbye, sweet foreigner, my
friend, my joy."