Manuel de Oms, 1st Marquis of Castelldosrius

Manuel de Oms y de Santa Pau ( Catalan Manuel Sentmenat - Oms de Santa Pau i de Lanuza, * 1651 in Barcelona, † April 24, 1710 in Lima) was a Spanish diplomat and 1707-1710 Viceroy of Peru.

Manuel de Oms came from a Catalan family who stood in the conflicts of the Spanish Succession on the side of the Bourbons. He was Viceroy of Mallorca and Spanish Ambassador to Portugal. 1696 was nominated for his services to the crown for the Marqués de Castelldosrius. From 1698 to 1703 he was ambassador at the court of Louis XIV, in which he used for the establishment of Felipe de Borbón as King of Spain.

For his loyalty to the house of Bourbon, he was appointed on 31 December 1704 the Viceroy of Peru. Adverse conditions delayed his journey so that he could start only in May 1707 from his office in Lima. His tenure was marked by disputes with the merchants (Tribunal de Consulado de Lima) Lima, on the other hand of clashes with English privateers such as Thomas Colbert, Charles Wager and Woodes Rogers.

The social life of Lima coined de Oms on the French model. In 1709 he founded the first literary academy, which he himself presided, and among other things, the writer Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, the priest Miguel Sáenz Cascante, the Marqués de Brenes and the Father Agustín Sáenz belonged. At the birth of the first son of Philip V., he composed the musical comedy El mejor escudo de Perseo and led them in 1708 in Lima.

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  • Biografías y Vidas - Manuel de Oms y de Santa Pau
  • Msn. Encarta. Manuel de Oms y de Santa Pau, marqués de Castelldosrius
  • Spanish diplomat
  • Viceroy of Peru
  • Person (Barcelona)
  • Born in 1651
  • Died in 1710
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