Rodrigo de Vivero, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba
Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberrucia | |
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13th Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquess of Salinas | |
Preceded by | Cristóbal Téllez Almazán |
Succeeded by | Juan de Silva |
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Born | Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberrucia 1564 |
Died | 1636 (aged 71–72) |
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Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberrucia, 1st Count of Valle de .
Governorship
He became the interim governor of the Philippines from June 15, 1608 to April 1609.
While in
His term as governor of the Philippines ended at Easter, 1609. Thereafter he was appointed count of Valle, and governor, captain-general, and president of the
Japan
On 30 September 1609, on his way back to New Spain, Rodrigo's ship, the San Francisco became shipwrecked in Japan with a crew of 373, near Iwawada in Kazusa Province (today Onjuku, Chiba). Of the two other ships which accompanied Rodrigo, the Santa Ana rallied to another Japanese harbour safely, but the other, San Antonio, disappeared. Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberrucia spent 9 months in Japan and met extensively with authorities, with the help of Luis Sotelo.
He left Japan on board a ship built by William Adams, the
They were also accompanied by the
During his stay, Rodrigo established a treaty with the Japanese, offering extraterritorial privileges for a Spanish shipyard and a naval base in eastern Japan in exchange for transpacific trade and Mexican silver mining technology. Rodrigo also requested the mapping of Japanese coasts, freedom for the activities of Catholic priests and the expulsion of the Dutch.
Vizcaíno also had a mission to return the 4,000 ducados and to research "gold and silver islands" supposedly to the east of Japan. He left for Japan on 22 March 1611, and after another shipwreck would eventually return in 1613 on board the Japanese-built galleon
References
- Blair, Emma Helen and James Alexander Robertson, eds., The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVII, 1606-160, a documentary history of the islands. It is available on-line in English at Project Gutenberg. It can be accessed or downloaded here.
- Condes del Valle de Orizaba, Antes- Señores del Valle de Tecamachalco y Viscondes de San Miguel,
External links
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- An Unscheduled Visit: Rodrigo de Vivero in Japan, 1609-1610 by
- Roderigo De Vivero. An Account of Japan, 1609. Translated and Introduced by Caroline Stone. Hardinge Simpole Publishing, Edinburgh, 2015. ISBN 9781843822240