Tomas Lopez Marin y Gonzalez de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Canada Hermosa
(
Spanish
:
Tomas Lopez Marin y Gonzalez de Poveda, primer Marques de Canada Hermosa
) (February 26, 1650 ? October 8, 1703) was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as
Royal Governor of Chile
.
Early life
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Tomas Marin de Poveda was born in
Lucar
,
Almeria Province
, the son of Tomas Lopez Marin and Maria Gonzalez de Poveda.
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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 Henriquez
.
He later returned to Spain, where he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and named
Royal Governor of Chile
on July 1, 1683. However, he was forced to wait for the term of the serving governor,
Jose 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
Order of Santiago
. In 1689, he wrote a
Funereal Prayer for
Marie Louise of Orleans
(
Spanish
:
Oracion Funebre a Dona Maria Luisa de Orleans
) to mark the death of the Queen.
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As Governor of Chile
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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
Captaincy General of Chile
was then sent against Millalpal under
Maestre de Campo
Alonso de Cordova
and 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
Real Audiencia of Chile
. During his term, he founded the cities of
San Agustin of Talca
,
Rengo
(
Villa Hermosa
) and
Chimbarongo
.
After his tenure, he received the title
Marquis of Canada 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 Bailon
.
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Additional information
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Notes
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Sources
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- Cordoba y Figueroa, Pedro de (1862). "Libro Sesto, XIII & XIV".
Historia de Chile (1492-1717)
. Coleccion de historiadores de Chile (in Spanish). Vol. II (Instituto Chileno de Cultura Hispanica, Academia Chilena de la Historia ed.). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta del Ferrocarril.
- Eyzaguirre, Jose Ignacio Victor (1850).
Historia eclesiastica: Politica y literaria de Chile
(in Spanish). Valparaiso, Chile: Imprenta del Comercio. pp.
205
?206.
- Medina, Jose Toribio
(1906).
Diccionario Biografico Colonial de Chile
(PDF)
(in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana. pp. 500?502.
- Perez Garcia, Jose
(1900). Jose Toribio Medina (ed.).
Historia Natural, Militar, Civil y Sagrada del Reino de Chile (Vol. I)
(PDF)
. Coleccion de historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la historia nacional (in Spanish). Vol. XXII. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana.
- Perez Garcia, Jose
(1900). Jose Toribio Medina (ed.).
Historia Natural, Militar, Civil y Sagrada del Reino de Chile (Vol. II)
(PDF)
. Coleccion de historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la historia nacional (in Spanish). Vol. XXIII. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana.