Diego López Pacheco, 7th Duke of Escalona

Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de ( born August 16, 1599 Belmonte in Cuenca, † February 27, 1653 in Pamplona ) was Grande de España, Marquis de Villena, Marquis de Xiquena and seventh Duke of Escalona.

Life

Diego López de Pacheco studied in Salamanca and knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece. Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de 1620 married his cousin Luisa de Bernarda Cabrera y Bobadilla, seventh Marquesa de Moya, who died in 1638.

Viceroy of New Spain

Philip IV of Spain appointed Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de on January 22, 1640 to the Viceroy of New Spain. He was appointed the Bishop of Puebla, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza to Mexico, who carried out an investigation against his two predecessor as Viceroy Lope Díez de Aux de Armendáriz and Rodrigo Pacheco y Osorio.

Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de marched into Mexico City on August 28, 1640. He introduced a label control and increased the Tributo, the poll tax was payable by which the indigenous. He continued the upgrade, which was founded by Lope Diez de Aux de Armendáriz Armada de Barlovento. The neuspanische Arsenal developed under his rule. In Cartagena and Havana cannons were cast as well as ammunition, black powder and rigging produced.

During his reign failed in the tenure of Lope Díez de Aux de Armendáriz by the Governor of Sinaloa Luis Cetin de Canas emitted mission to colonize California by the Jesuits. The religious life was marked mostly by lay priests in New Spain. A reform attempt to install from the church hierarchy ordained priests failed.

Following an insurgence a cousin of Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de, Duke of Braganza in 1642 crowned King John IV of Portugal, which ended the previously existing personal union of the Castilian and the Portuguese king. Because of its relationship to John IV of Portugal, the loyalty of Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de was drawn to Philip IV of Spain in doubt. Gaspar de Guzmán, Conde de Olivares commissioned Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de to capture.

Juan de Palafox y Mendozan traveled on 19 June 1642 by his bishopric to Mexico City, met with the authorities to let Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla arrest, bring about the Convento de Churubusco to San Martín Texmelucan and confiscate his property.

Diego López Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla de returned with the fleet to Spain, where he complained to his arrest at Philip IV of Spain. He got back a portion of the confiscated money and in 1649 used for the Viceroy of Navarre. On September 8, 1650, he became the father of Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco y Zúñiga.