Manuel Arredondo y Pelegrín
Manuel Antonio Arredondo y Pelegrín (* before 1750 in Asturias , Spain , † 1821 in Lima , Peru ) was a Spanish lawyer and colonial administrator who served temporarily as Viceroy of Peru in 1801 .
Life
Manuel Arredondo came from Asturias and studied in Spain law . From 1779 he officiated at the Real Audiencia of Lima as Oidor .
In this role he saw the suppression of the uprising of the indigenous population under Túpac Amaru II , who was executed in Cuzco in 1781 with his wife and son . Arredondo overlooked the census of 1784 and 1785. This was of great importance to the locals, as the ethnic classification should be relevant to the obligation to labor .
In 1786 he was promoted to chairman of the Real Audiencia and was honored by the Council of India in 1794 . With the death of Viceroy Ambrosio O'Higgins on March 18, 1801, Arredondo took over as President of the Audiencia according to the regulations of the Spanish colonial empire, which he passed on to the new Viceroy Gabriel de Avilés on November 6, 1801 . He remained in office as president of the Audiencia and as military commander-in-chief ( captain general ).
Arredondo married twice in South America. First, he took Juana Catalina Micheo y Jiménez de Lobatón, the widow of José de Rezabal y Ugarte , who was briefly governor of Chile in 1796 as president of the Real Audiencia of Chile . After her death, he married Juana Herce y Dulce. She was also a widow. Her late first husband, Juan Fulgencio Apesteguia, Margrave of Torre-Hermosa, had left her a large fortune which included extensive estates in Chile.
1808 awarded the title of margrave ( marqués ) of San Juan Nepomuceno to King Charles IV . After the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars in Spain , he was appointed chamberlain to the Council of India in 1815 .
In 1813 a Madrid newspaper reported that Arredondo had gone to Mexico to work in the local Audiencia ; but this message found no confirmation.
When the independence movements were formed in South America in the wake of the loyal Juntas and the Peruvian viceroy José Fernando Abascál y Sousa took military action against the rebels in Chile , today's Ecuador and the Peruvian highlands, he entrusted Arredondo with the defense of the coast.
Arredondo died in late 1821. He didn't have any children. His fortune fell into the hands of the newly founded Republic of Chile.
literature
- Manuel de Mendiburu (1805-1885): Diccionario histórico-biográfico del Perú . 1st volume. Imprenta J. Francisco Solis, Lima 1874, p. 368-369 ( Cervantes Virtual [accessed March 19, 2015]).
Web links
- Short biography (Spanish)
- Short biography (Spanish)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Ambrosio O'Higgins |
Viceroy of Peru 1801 |
Gabriel de Avilés |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arredondo y Pelegrín, Manuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arredondo y Pelegrín, Manuel Antonio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Viceroy of Peru |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asturias , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1821 |
| Place of death | Lima , Peru |