Isabel Calvimontes

Isabel Calvimontes (November 19, 1790 – December 20, 1855) was an Upper Peru-born Argentine patriot who participated in Buenos Aires society at the service of the May Revolution and in the early years of the emancipatory movement.

The failure of the Chuquisaca Revolution in 1809 forced Pedro José Agrelo to abandon his post as subdelegate in Tupiza and move with his wife to his hometown, the City of Buenos Aires.

There, he did not take long to integrate into the circles that promoted American independence and when the May Revolution of 1810 took place, the couple immediately joined the patriot movement.

Word spread of the ship's arrival at the port of Buenos Aires and that the economic situation of the revolutionary government made its purchase difficult.

The patrician women, who would become known as the "Sociedad Patriótica" (Patriotic Society) made donations equivalent to thirteen rifles and two ounces of gold so that, according to Bernardo de Monteagudo, they could say, "I armed this brave man who assured our freedom".