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Northern New Spain: A Research Guide (1981) by Thomas C. Barnes, Thomas H. Naylor, and Charles W. Polzer, p. 94. (in Spanish) List of viceroys and other colonial rulers at the Mexican government site (in Spanish) Cronología de los Gobernantes de México 1325–2000 (Powerpoint) (in Spanish) List of Spanish colonial officials before the viceroyalty
Juan José Ruiz de Apodaca y Eliza, 1st Count of Venadito, OIC, OSH, KOC (3 February 1754 – 11 January 1835) was a Spanish Navy officer, nobleman and colonial administrator who served as the viceroy of New Spain from 20 September 1816 to 5 July 1821 during the Mexican War of Independence.
Viceroyalty of New Spain: Mexico City: 1535–1821 Achieved independence as Mexico: Viceroyalty of Peru: Lima: 1542–1824 Achieved independence as Peru: Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata: Buenos Aires: 1776–1810 Achieved independence as Argentina: Viceroyalty of the Indies: Santo Domingo: 1492–1535 Became the Viceroyalty of New Spain
Impressed with Velasco's achievements and loyalty to the Spanish crown, Emperor Charles V (King Charles I of Spain) sent him to New Spain, in 1550, to deal with problems in the Spanish colonies, among them slavery and the encomienda system. He was accompanied by his son, Luis de Velasco, marqués de Salinas, himself a future viceroy of New Spain.
The title was originally used by the Crown of Aragon, where, beginning in the 14th century, it referred to the Spanish governors of Sardinia and Corsica.After the unification, at the end of the 15th century, later kings of Spain came to appoint numerous viceroys to rule over various parts of the increasingly vast Spanish Empire in Europe, the Americas, and overseas elsewhere.
The evangelization of Mexico. Spanish conquerors saw it as their right and their duty to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism. Because Catholicism had played such an important role in the Reconquista (Catholic reconquest) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, the Catholic Church in essence became another arm of the Spanish government, since the crown was granted sweeping powers ...
Antonio de Mendoza (1495 – 21 July 1552) was a Spanish colonial administrator who was the first viceroy of New Spain, serving from 14 November 1535 to 25 November 1550, and the second viceroy of Peru, from 23 September 1551, until his death on 21 July 1552.
Grandson of Tizoc (1481–1486). Appointed by the Spanish viceroy on the suggestion of the Nahua nobility. Well-liked by his subjects. His reign was marked by a devastating epidemic in the 1540s. Worked to defend the resources of his community and the wealth of his family from his colonial overlords. [22]? – 1554