Diego Dávila, 1st Marquis of Navamorcuende
Diego Dávila Coello y Pacheco, Marqués de Navalmorquende, Señor de Cardiel, el Bodón, Montalvo, El Hito y Villar de Cañas (* around 1620 in Spain, † 1680 ) was a Spanish officer and colonial administrator, who from 1667 to 1670 as a temporary Governor of Chile officiated.
Dávila was the son of Gonzalo Dávila Coello and his wife Mariana de Castilla y Pedrosa in Spain to the world. He married Maria Teresa de Vilhena, the daughter of the Viceroy of Sicily, Francisco de Melo.
In Spain, he held several positions in the administration, until he was appointed commander of the garrison of Callao in Peru. To accept this office, he came in November 1667 to Lima, but was there appointed by the new viceroy Pedro Antonio Fernández, the Conde de Lemos as interim governor to Chile after the charges against Francisco de Meneses Brito led to its dismissal. On March 27, 1668, he reached Santiago.
Among his first duties was one of the extensive legal proceedings against his predecessor, which was to last for three years. Dávila strove to lead the administration back on track. He promoted agriculture and viticulture and prevented the migration of agricultural workers by the prohibition to sell slaves from Chile in neighboring provinces.
On May 13 1668 he left Santiago and went on his way south, where the colonial masters were in a permanent war with the Mapuche. There he commanded with his Maestre de Campo, Ignacio Carrera, 1668 and 1669 fighting against the rebellious Indians.
Beginning in 1670 made him the Viceroy call to Lima because he expected an appeal to a regular post of governor by the regent. He handed the office until further notice to Diego González Montero and left of Concepción. He never returned to Europe, leaving no heir.
Sources and links
- José Toribio Medina: Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile ( Spanish). Imprenta Elziviriana, Santiago, Chile 1906, pp. 235-236 (accessed on 15 June 2010).
- Diego Barros Arana: Historia General de Chile ( Spanish), 5 Editorial Universitaria, Santiago de Chile, 2001, pp. 87-92 (accessed 24 June 2010 ).
- Entry in the list of the rulers of Chile ( Spanish)
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- Governor (Chile)
- Military person (Spain )
- Spaniard
- Born in the 17th century
- Died in the 17th century
- Man