Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga
Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga (* 1715, † August 24, 1768 in Santiago de Chile) was a Spanish officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Panama and Chile.
Guill was born into a noble Italian family, and initially made a career in the army, reaching the rank of colonel of infantry in Guadalajara. From 1758 to 1761 he ruled as governor of Panama.
October 3, 1762 to January 17, 1768, he officiated in the rank of brigadier as governor of Chile. At the beginning of his tenure, Spain was at war with England, and Guill set to work to secure the port of Valparaíso. In 1763 he reported to the king the development of sulfur mines at Coquimbo.
1764 convened Guill the Parliament of Nacimiento with the Mapuche, who he wanted to settle in the cities. This led to the continuing turmoil among the indigenous population, which was first settled in 1774 under his successor, Agustín de Jáuregui.
Talcahuano was expanded under his government as the official port. He also had 1765 new settlement building, including Rere, Yumbel and Tucapel el Nuevo; Chiloé he let the settlements San Carlos de Chonchi ( 1767) and San Carlos de Ancud ( 1768) found.
Also during his tenure, the first vaccinations against smallpox were undertaken.
Remarkably, can be found in the archives, not a single letter from him to the expulsion of the Jesuits, who under his tenure fell ( dissolution of the Jesuit Order). King Charles III. had the expulsion in February 1767 has. In Chile, they had mainly consequences in education: The Jesuit Convictorio Francisco Javier was dissolved. The dissolution of the Jesuit institutions took place on 26 August 1767 triggered a severe crisis in the deeply religious Guill, which led to his resignation in January 1768. A few months later he died.
Sources and links
- Biography (in Spanish )
- José Toribio Medina: Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (Spanish ) (PDF file, 107.86 MB ), pp. 383f.
Reign of Charles V: Diego de Almagro | Pedro de Valdivia | Francisco de Villagra | Rodrigo de Quiroga | (Francisco de Aguirre )
Reign of Philip II: García Hurtado de Mendoza | Rodrigo de Quiroga | Francisco de Villagra | Pedro de Villagra | Melchor Bravo de Saravia | Martín Ruiz de Gamboa | Diego García de Cáceres | Alonso de Sotomayor | Pedro de Viscarra | Martín García onez de Loyola
Reign of Philip III: Pedro de Viscarra | Francisco de Quinonez | Alonso García | Alonso de Ribera | Luis Merlo de la Fuente | Juan de la Jaraquemada | Fernando Talaverano | Lope de Ulloa | Cristóbal de la Cerda.
Reign of Philip IV: Pedro Osores de Ulloa | Francisco de Alava | Luis Fernández de Córdoba | Francisco Laso de la Vega | Francisco López de Zúñiga | Martín de Mujica | Alonso Figueroa | Antonio de Acuña | Francisco de la Fuente | Pedro Porter Casanate | Diego González Montero | Ángel de Peredo | Francisco de Meneses
Reign of Charles II: Miguel Gómez de Silva | Diego Dávila Coello | Diego González Montero | Juan Henríquez de Villalobos | José de Garro | Tomás Marín González de Poveda
Reign of Philip V: Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta | Juan Andrés de Ustariz de Vertizberea | José de Santiago Concha | Gabriel Cano de Aponte | Francisco de Sánchez de la Barreda | Manuel de Salamanca | José Antonio Manso de Velasco | Francisco José de Ovando
Reign of Ferdinand VI. Domingo Ortiz de Rozas | Manuel d' Amat i de Junyent
Reign of Charles III: Félix de Berroeta | Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga | Juan de Balmaceda | Francisco Javier de Morales | Agustín de Jáuregui | Tomás Álvarez de Acevedo | Ambrosio de Benavides.
Reign of Charles IV: Ambrosio O'Higgins | José de Ugarte y Rezabal | Gabriel de Avilés | Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas | José de Santiago Concha Jiménez Lobatón | Francisco Tadeo Diez de Medina | Luis Muñoz de Guzmán
Reign of Ferdinand VII: Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros | Francisco Antonio García Carrasco | Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta | Mariano Osorio | Casimiro Marcó del Pont
- Gonzaga
- Governor (Chile)
- Military person (Spain )
- Born in 1715
- Died in 1768
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