Tomás Marín de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa

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Tomás Marín de Poveda
Marqués de Cañada Hermosa
Caballero de Santiago
Royal Governor of Chile
In office
January 6, 1692 – December 23, 1700
MonarchCharles II
Preceded byJosé de Garro
Succeeded byFrancisco Ibáñez
Personal details
Born(1650-02-26)26 February 1650
Lieutenant General

Tomás López Marín y González de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa (Spanish: Tomás López Marín y González de Poveda, primer Marqués de Cañada Hermosa) (February 26, 1650 – October 8, 1703) was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Chile.

Early life

Tomás Marín de Poveda was born in

Almería Province, the son of Tomás López Marín and María González de Poveda.[1] He came to America in 1687 with his uncle, who had been named Archbishop of Charcas, in present-day Bolivia. Afterwards, in 1670, he moved to Chile for the first time with the retinue of governor Juan Henríquez
.

He later returned to Spain, where he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and named

José del Garro
, to expire before travelling to take up his post, this meant that he could not assume until 1692.

On August 9, 1687, he was made a knight of the

Marie Louise of Orléans (Spanish: Oracion Funebre a Doña María Luisa de Orleans) to mark the death of the Queen.[2]

As Governor of Chile

His administration was marked by a brief flare-up of the Arauco War. In 1694 the Toqui Millalpal and the Mapuche were incited to revolt by the unauthorized activities of Antonio Pedreros, the Commissary for Indian Affairs, against their machis, whom Pedreros had tried to violently isolate and relocate.[3] Pedreros died of wounds when his force tried to cross the Quepe River to attack Millalpal.

The Spanish army of the

Sargento Mayor Alonso Cobarrubias was impossible for Millalpal to resist and he had to capitulate. The governor then called the Parliament of Choque-Choque
with the Mapuche, realizing Pedreros had been the source of the dispute and made a peace that lasted for nearly thirty years.

Also Poveda had to deal with the expeditions of various pirates against Chilean trade, and the competition between the various functionaries of the

Rengo (Villa Hermosa) and Chimbarongo
.

After his tenure, he received the title Marquis of Cañada Hermosa. He died in

Santiago
a year later, in 1703.

In 2019 the title was rehabilitated by a cousin of the 1st Marquis, Nick Loeb Count of San Pascual Bailón.[4][circular reference][5]

Additional information

Notes

  1. ^ Medina, José Toribio (1906). Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana. p. 500.
  2. ^ Medina, José Toribio (1906). Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana. p. 501.
  3. ^ Cordoba y Figueroa, Pedro de (1862). Historia de Chile (1492-1717) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril. p. 310.
  4. ^ es:Condado de San Pascual Bailón
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2019-04-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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Preceded by Royal Governor of Chile
1692–1700 		Succeeded by
Spanish nobility
Preceded by
New creation
 Marquis of Cañada Hermosa
1701–1703 		Succeeded by
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