Fernando Talaverano Gallegos

Fernando Talaverano Gallegos ( also alternatively: Hernando Talaverano Gallegos ) (* 1563 ( according to other information: 1546 ) probably in Granada , Spain ; † 1619 in Chile ) was a Spanish lawyer who temporarily held the office of governor of Chile in 1617/1618 .

Life

Career in Spain

Talaverano studied law and, according to José Toribio Medina, was admitted to the bar in Granada in 1577 and entered the service of the Duke of Béjar. This date makes the birth year 1563, which Medina gives, seem unlikely, since Talaverano would have been admitted to the bar at the age of fourteen. According to Medina, he was appointed advisor to the Santo Oficio of Granada in 1595 , judge of the goods confiscated by the Inquisition in 1597, and later Alcalde Mayor (mayor) of Granada.

Term of office in Chile

King Philip III appointed him to the Real Audiencia of Chile ; With his wife, Catalina de Ledesma, and four daughters, he set out for America from Seville in March 1603. He reached Lima via Panama , where he arrived in October 1603. He took his oath of office on January 13, 1604 in Concepción , and on February 2, he reached Santiago de Chile .

There he initially acted as Deputy Governor. With a royal document of March 23, 1606 he was awarded the title of oidor ; he served for nine years. When the governor Alonso de Ribera became seriously ill, he appointed Talaverano on March 9, 1617 as a temporary successor until the viceroy of Peru or the king would appoint a permanent successor. With the death of Ribera, Talaverano took office and was formally confirmed by the Cabildo (City Council) of Santiago on March 16, 1617.

His administration was characterized by a faithful execution of the instructions of the king and the church, especially the influence of the Jesuit Father Luis de Valdivia: "At that time it was dangerous to get into trouble with this order [the Jesuits], in the face of it the immense power that the clergy had acquired under the reign of the pious Philip III. " , writes Diego Barros Arana (p. 96).

Among other things, Talaverano decided under the influence of the Jesuits to release all captured Mapuche Indians, including the military leader Pelantaro , against whose release Alonso de Ribera had always spoken out.

With the arrival of the new governor Lope de Ulloa y Lemos in January 1618, Talaverano handed over the official duties. In the Spanish colonial empire, every official had to undergo a juicio de residencia after the end of their term of office , a review of official acts for legality. Return to Spain was only permitted with discharge from the juicio . Talaverano had to justify himself against allegations about the illegal appropriation of an agricultural property; the jury in Santiago acquitted him, but the Council of India sentenced him to a fine of one hundred ducats.

Talaverano died in Chile in 1619.

literature

• José Toribio Medina : Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile . Imprenta Elziviriana, Santiago, Chile 1906, p. 849–850 (Spanish, memoriachilena.cl [PDF; accessed June 15, 2010]).
• Diego Barros Arana : Historia General de Chile . tape 4 . Editorial Universitaria, Santiago de Chile 2001, p. 96-99 (Spanish, memoriachilena.cl [accessed June 10, 2010] first edition: 1886).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the original: "... en esa época era peligroso comprometerse en dificultades de ese orden visto el poder inmenso que el clero había tomado bajo el gobierno del piadoso Felipe III."