Francisco de Sánchez de la Barreda

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Francisco de Sánchez de la Barreda y Vera (* before 1711; † 1738 ) was a Spanish lawyer who served as governor of Chile on an interim basis in 1733/1734 .

Life

Before his time in Chile he probably worked in Lima , at least his son Domingo, whom he had with Isabel de Espinosa, was born there in 1711.

Sánchez had been a judge (Spanish: Oidor Decano ) at the Real Audiencia of Chile in Santiago de Chile since February 1, 1712 , when Governor Gabriel Cano de Aponte died on November 11, 1733 . The same evening the judges of the Audiencia met and found that the viceroy had no disposition over a provisional successor.

The next morning, they proclaimed Sánchez, the senior judge, to be temporary governor under the rules of the Leyes de India . The city council (Spanish: cabildo ) welcomed this decision and asked the viceroy in Lima to confirm Sánchez in office until the actual successor Bruno Mauricio de Zavala had arrived from Buenos Aires .

Sánchez was considered an experienced, moderate and deeply religious person. After the earthquake of July 8th, 1730, he had given his house, which was one of the few to have been spared from destruction, to the Augustinian nuns .

"Judge Barreda's reign was as short as it was insignificant," said the historian Diego Barros Arana . A Dutch ship was sighted near Valdivia and was being prevented from landing by an intervention force of 200 men to avoid hostilities or illicit trade. Before the troops arrived, however, the Dutch had moved on again.

In January 1734, news of the death of Governor Cano de Aponte had reached the viceroy's court. Viceroy José de Armendáriz confirmed all decisions and personal details with the exception of the governor with a document dated January 29, 1734. In place of Sánchez Barreda, the viceroy appointed the deceased governor's nephew, the cavalry officer Manuel de Salamanca, to be governor, who received the news of his appointment on March 9th, and met in Santiago on the evening of May 5th, 1734, where he was on solemnly took office the following day.

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  1. ^ Entry of the son in the Diccionario Colonial. P. 801.
  2. ↑ Barros Arana: Historia jeneral de Chile. Volume 6, p. 89.
personal data
SURNAME Sánchez de la Barreda, Francisco de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barreda i Vera, Francisco Sanchez de la; Sánchez de la Barreda y Vera, Francisco de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish lawyer, governor of Chile
DATE OF BIRTH before 1711
DATE OF DEATH 1738
Place of death uncertain: Santiago de Chile , Chile