Domingo Ortiz de Rosas, 1st Marquis of Poblaciones

Domingo Ortiz de Rozas, Conde de Poblaciones ( born November 21, 1683 Rozas, Asturias, Spain, † June 28, 1756 at sea off Cape Horn ) was a Spanish officer and colonial administrator, who as governor of the Río de la Plata ( 1741 - 1746 ) and in Chile ( 1746-1755 ) officiated.

Origin and Youth

Ortiz was born the son of Urbano Ortiz de Rozas and his wife, Isabel García de Villasuso. He married Ana Felipa Ruiz de Bribiesca (also: Briviesca ) from Cadiz, with whom he had three sons and a daughter. His wife died in 1778.

At an early age he entered the service of the Spanish Crown and fought in the War of Spanish Succession in Italy and North Africa. In 1737 he was inducted as a knight in the Order of Santiago. He got in the army up to the rank of field marshal.

In 1747 he was raised to the Conde de Poblaciones.

Term as governor in Buenos Aires

On May 24, 1745 King Philip V appointed him captain-general of the province of Río de la Plata Viceroyalty of Peru, and he took residence in Buenos Aires, where he took up his duties on 25 March 1746. ( According to other sources, this should be done already on 21 June 1742. ) During his tenure, he oversaw the trade in the province of Sacramento and drove the fortification works in Montevideo ahead.

Term as governor in Chile

With royal deed dated May 24, In 1745 he was appointed Governor of Chile, where he took office on March 25, 1746.

He held with the indigenous Mapuche population from a parliament in which the Indians assurances regarding not to take any more raids across the Andes main ridge.

His tenure was the approval in 1747 and formal establishment of the Real Universidad de San Felipe and the appointment of its first rector, Tomás de Azua. The teaching, however, was added ten years later.

In 1749 was built on the Juan Fernandez Islands, a prison island. This should be after the defeat at the Battle of Rancagua live in exile in later years, many independence fighters.

Ortiz was set up in Santiago de Chile flood control on the Río Mapocho to 1751 new, after it had come to devastating floods in 1748, when the river had overflowed its banks. Furthermore, in his tenure, some towns founded in the south of the country in 1749 Quirihue 1750 Casablanca and 1751 Coelemu and La Florida. 1754 followed further north La Ligua.

As in 1751, a major earthquake destroyed the city of Concepción largely, he let them build in a new place again. This provoked fierce opposition from the Bishop José de Toro y Zambrano. The case was ultimately of King Ferdinand VI. in favor of Ortiz's decided.

By deed dated September 17, 1754, King Ferdinand accepted the resignation of 71 -year-olds and appointed Manuel d' Amat i de Junyent his successor.

Death

On the return trip to Europe Ortiz was at the height of Cape Horn on June 28, 1756 during a winter storm overboard and drowned.

Sources and links

Biography at Biografia de Chile ( Spanish)
Biography at Icarito ( Spanish)
José Toribio Medina: entry in the Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (Spanish ) (PDF, 113 MB ), page 624

Reign of Charles II: Andrés de Robles | José de Garro | José de Herrera y Sotomayor | Agustín de Robles | Manuel de Prado y Maldonado

Reign of Ferdinand VI. Pedro Antonio de Cevallos

Reign of Charles III: Francisco de Paula y Ursua Bucarelli | Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo.

From 1776: Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

Reign of Charles V: Diego de Almagro | Pedro de Valdivia | Francisco de Villagra | Rodrigo de Quiroga | (Francisco de Aguirre )

Reign of Ferdinand VI. Domingo Ortiz de Rozas | Manuel d' Amat i de Junyent

Reign of Ferdinand VII: Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros | Francisco Antonio García Carrasco | Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta | Mariano Osorio | Casimiro Marcó del Pont

Governor (Chile)
Governor of the Río de la Plata
Military person (Spain )
Born in 1683
Died in 1756
Man

Royal Governor of Chile War of the Spanish Succession Generalfeldmarschall Philip V of Spain Casablanca (Chile) Francisco de Aguirre (conquistador) Fernando Talaverano Gallegos Lope de Ulloa y Lemos Francisco de Meneses Brito Manuel Silvestre de Salamanca Cano Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán Francisco Javier de Morales y Castejón de Arroyo Charles IV of Spain Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista

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