Francisco de Toledo

Francisco de Toledo, Conde de Oropesa (* July 10, 1515 in Oropesa; † August 15, 1582 in Seville) was a Spanish military commander and viceroy of Peru ( 1569-81 ).

Life

Francisco de Toledo was an illegitimate descendant of King Alfonso XI. of Castile. At the second meeting period the Council of Trent ( 1551/52 ) he was an imperial ambassador, together with Count Montfort. He distinguished himself as a soldier under the Emperor Charles V, and was appointed by the Spanish King Philip II to the Viceroy of Peru in 1568. When he arrived in Lima in the following year, he undertook a two-year inspection tour of the country and organized while the local administration and the work of mining companies new. He led the Inquisition ( 1570), Indian insurgents punished harshly and made 1572 the last descendants of the Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru I. the young, to death. Toledo Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa commissioned to write the "Historia Indica ". He is the creator of the Spanish administration (system of encomienda and Mita ) in South America, which remained operational until the 18th century. 1581 Toledo returned back to Spain.