Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán
Juan de Balmaceda Zenzano Y Beltrán, also: Balmaseda, also: Zensano, Cencano or Cenzano (* April 16, 1702 in Galilea, La Rioja, Spain, † May 30, 1778 in Santiago de Chile) was a Spanish lawyer and colonial official who an interim basis from 1768 served as governor in the Captaincy General of Chile until 1770.
Balmaceda was born the son of Pedro José de Balmaceda and his wife Ángela de Zensano y Fernández. The spellings of the names vary in the sources. He studied law and was admitted to the lawyer at the councils of Spain. Although the family came from the old aristocracy, but was not wealthy and so sought Juan Balmaceda his fortune in the New World. 1739 he was appointed Oidor at the Real Audiencia of Chile. He took this office on 28 November 1742 in Santiago de Chile.
Balmaceda married on February 8, 1750 Agustina Alvarez de Uceda, the widow of Francisco Fernández de Córdoba.
Over time he became more posts in the judiciary and administration in Chile, he was responsible from 1766 for the tobacco monopoly.
On August 24, 1768, he took over the office of the governor, as Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga died. At that time raged in the south uprisings of indigenous peoples, and Balmaceda made his way to the front, where he could, however, for lack of soldierly experience no progress. On 3 March 1770 he was the new commander, the experienced soldiers Francisco Javier de Morales, peeled and went back to the Audiencia. Due to his advanced age, he was transferred in January 1773 in retirement, he took the end of 1775.
On May 30, 1778 Balmaceda died at the age of 76 years in Santiago.
Sources and links
- Biography at Icarito ( Spanish)
- Detailed biography on the website of the birthplace of Galilea ( Spanish)
- José Toribio Medina: Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (Spanish ) (PDF, 113 MB), page 107
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
- Governor (Chile)
- Born in 1702
- Died in 1778
- Man