Manuel Arredondo y Pelegrín
Manuel Arredondo y Pelegrín | |
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President of the Gabriel de Avilés y del Fierro | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1738 Bárcena de Cicero, Spain |
Died | 1822 (aged 83–84) Lima, Peru |
Nationality | Spanish |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Jurist |
Manuel Antonio Arredondo y Pelegrín was a Spanish judge, soldier and colonial administrator in Peru and Ecuador. Briefly in 1801 he was interim viceroy of Peru.
Biography
Arredondo arrived in Peru in 1779 as an oidor (judge) of the
In 1786 Arredondo was named regent of the Audiencia, and a short time later captain general (military commander) of the viceroyalty. In 1808 he was granted the title of marqués de San Juan Nepomuceno.
Upon the death of Viceroy
The revolt of Túpac Amaru was not the only one Arredondo faced during the time he was an administrator in Peru.
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Arredondo was married twice, first to Juana Micheo Jiménez y Lobatón, then to Juana Erze, widow of Juan Fulgencio Apesteguía, Marquis de Torrehermosa, a wealthy landowner from Ica. The affair with Juana Erze had actually started before their respective spouses were deceased; the Apesteguías already had two daughters who were both physically unattractive and not very intelligent. Because of Apesteguía's sympathy with the independentist cause, Arredondo denounced him to his boss, Viceroy Abascal, who arrested Apesteguía and deported him to Spain, where he died. During Arredondo's marriage to Juana Erze his stepdaughters died, possibly as a result of poisoning, for which some blamed Arredondo, although nothing was ever proven. His second wife soon died as well, depressed due to her daughters' early deaths.
Arredondo thus left no descendants, and his nephew Brigadier Manuel Arredondo y Miaño inherited the title but not the Montalván estate (originally property of the Marquis of Torrehermosa), which was confiscated by the independent government shortly after Antonio's death in 1821.
References
- (in Spanish) Brief biography
- (in Spanish) Suppression of the junta of Quito