Ãngel de Peredo
Ángel de Peredo (* 1623 in Queveda, Cantabria, Spain, † March 21, 1677 in Cordoba, today Argentina) was a Spanish officer and judge, who served temporarily as governor of Chile and later as Governor of the province of Tucumán.
Peredo came from a family from the mountains near Santander. He served as an officer of the Spanish Crown in the wars against Portugal. He was married to Antonia Urrutia Ramírez y Erratia, his son was admitted to the Order of Calatrava. Peredo then went to the New World.
He was President of the Real Audiencia of Chile, as King Philip IV ordered the dismissal of Governor Pedro Porter Casanate. In that capacity, he transferred the Viceroy of Peru, the Duke of Santisteban del Puerto, transitionally the office of governor until a successor appointee of the king from Europe would arrive.
He took office in May 1662 by the acting predecessor Diego González Montero. Also Peredos tenure was marked by the war against the rebellious Mapuche in Araucanía. He populated Forts new, which had been devastated by the Indians and founded to secure the border the town of Santa Maria de Guadalupe, today's Lota.
In January 1664 he was replaced by Francisco de Meneses Brito, who was appointed by the king as a regular successors and arrived via Buenos Aires from Spain. Immediately after he took office the successor made serious allegations against Peredo. He had, so to have extended the number of digits in the army in excess of requirements Meneses and have offered public positions for sale. Peredo fled from the threat of arrest over the Andes.
After the deposition of Meneses ' Peredo was rehabilitated and served from 1670 to 1674 even as the governor of the province of Tucumán. In this role, he was engaged in the fight against Indians. In 1673 he led a punitive expedition against the Mocoví of the Gran Chaco, after they had repeatedly raided settlements. He had already received from Spain for permission to return to Europe when he died in Cordoba.
Sources and links
- José Toribio Medina: Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile ( Spanish). Imprenta Elziviriana, Santiago, Chile 1906, pp. 665-668 (accessed on 15 June 2010).
- Diego Barros Arana: Historia General de Chile ( Spanish), 5 Editorial Universitaria, Santiago de Chile, 2001, pp. 29-34 (accessed 24 June 2010 ).
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- Governor (Chile)
- Military person (Spain )
- Spaniard
- Born in 1623
- Died in 1677
- Man