Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla
Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla (born August 16, 1599 in Belmonte , † February 27, 1653 in Pamplona ) was Grande de España , Marquis de Villena, Marquis de Xiquena and the seventh Duke of Escalona .
Life
Diego López de Pacheco studied in Salamanca and was a knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece . Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla married his cousin Luisa Bernarda de Cabrera y Bobadilla in 1620, the seventh Marquesa de Moya , who died in 1638.
Viceroy of New Spain
Philip IV of Spain appointed Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla on January 22, 1640 Viceroy of New Spain . He was sent to Mexico with the bishop of Puebla , Juan de Palafox y Mendoza , who carried out an investigation against his two predecessors in the office of viceroy Lope Díez de Aux de Armendáriz and Rodrigo Pacheco y Osorio.
Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla entered Mexico City on August 28, 1640 . He introduced a seal tax and increased the tributo , the poll tax that had to be paid by the indigenous people . He continued the armament of the Armada de Barlovento founded by Lope Díez de Aux de Armendáriz . The New Spanish arsenal developed under his rule. In Cartagena and Havana, cannons were cast and ammunition, gunpowder and rigging were produced.
During his reign, the mission to colonize California by Jesuits, which was sent out by the governor of Sinaloa Luis Cetin de Canas during the tenure of Lope Díez de Aux de Armendáriz, failed. The majority of religious life in New Spain was shaped by lay priests. An attempt at reform to install priests ordained by the church hierarchy failed.
After an uprising, a cousin of Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla, the Duke of Braganza, was crowned King John IV of Portugal in 1642 , which ended the personal union of the Castilian and Portuguese kings that had existed until then. Due to his relationship to John IV of Portugal, the loyalty of Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla to Philip IV of Spain has been questioned. Gaspar de Guzmán, Conde de Olivares commissioned Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Diego López de Pacheco to capture Cabrera y Bobadilla.
Juan de Palafox y Mendozan traveled from his bishopric to Mexico City on June 19, 1642, met with the authorities, had Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla arrested, brought to San Martín Texmelucan via the Convento de Churubusco and confiscated his property.
Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla returned with the fleet to Spain, where he sued Philip IV of Spain against his arrest. He received part of the confiscated money back and was installed as Viceroy of Navarre in 1649. On September 8, 1650 he became the father of Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco y Zúñiga.
literature
- Juana Vázquez Gómez: Dictionary of Mexican Rulers, 1325–1997 . Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport CT 1997, ISBN 0-313-30049-6 , pp. 28 ( Google Books ).
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Lope Díaz de Armendáriz |
Viceroy of New Spain 1640–1642 |
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza |
| Luis de Guzman y Ponce de León |
Viceroy of Navarre 1649–1653 |
Diego de Benavides y de la Cueva |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla, Diego López de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish governor of spanish viceroyalty |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1599 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belmonte near Cuenca |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1653 |
| Place of death | Pamplona |