VACA DE CASTRO, CRISTÓBAL

krēstōˈbäl väˈkä thā käˈstrō, fl. 1540–45, Spanish colonial administrator in Peru. A judge of the royal audiencia at Valladolid, he was chosen by Charles V to restore order between the Pizarro and the Almagro factions. He was a man of integrity, sagacity, and courage. Arriving in 1541 and learning of the assassination of Francisco Pizarro, he assumed the governorship. Supported by Francisco de Carvajal, he put down the uprising headed by Almagro the younger (son of Diego de Almagro), who was defeated in 1542. Vaca de Castro was succeeded by the first viceroy of Peru, Núñez Vela, in 1544. The viceroy, suspecting Vaca de Castro of sympathizing with the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro, had him arrested. Returned to Spain in disgrace, Vaca de Castro was imprisoned for 12 years before he was cleared of all charges and restored to his honors. He probably died at some time after 1571.

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The de Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Book by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Edward C. Moore; University of Alabama Press, 1993
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Southern States--History--16th Century--Sources, Soto, Hernando De--Ca. 1500-1542, Southern States--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish--Sources, Spaniards--Southern States--History--16th Century--Sources
...hearings on his paternity accorded to him by Lope Garcia de Castro, who blamed Garcilasos father for lending the rebel Gonzalo...served in that country." 1 Perhaps because Lope Garcia de Castro, who as a judge denied him his request to be named his...
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The Chivalric Vision of Alfonso de Cartagena: Study and Edition of the Doctrinal de los Caualleros
Book by Noel Fallows; Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 1995
Subjects: Cartagena, Alonso De--1385?-1456--Defensorium Unitatis Christianae--Spanish, Chivalry--Early Works To 1800, Conduct Of Life--Early Works To 1800
...la caualleria Medina del Campo: Pedro de Castro, 1548 ; Bartolome Scarion de Pavia, Doctrina militar . En el qual se trata...vernacular languages into Spanish by Alfonso de San Cristobal and Juan de Castrogeriz, respectively . That...
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The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast
Book by Patricia Galloway; University of Nebraska Press, 1997
Subjects: Soto, Hernando De--Ca. 1500-1542, Southern States--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish--Historiography
...joint report" by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Andres Dorantes on the Panfilo...version may be compared to Cabeza de Vaca own version, the Naufragios...it is also unlikely that Cabeza de Vaca ever saw Oviedos version. Nor did...
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The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543 - Vol. 2
Book by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight Jr., Edward C. Moore; University of Alabama Press, 1995
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Southern States--History--16th Century--Sources, Soto, Hernando De--Ca. 1500-1542, Southern States--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish--Sources, Spaniards--Southern States--History--16th Century--Sources
...hearings on his paternity accorded to him by Lope Garcia de Castro, who blamed Garcilasos father for lending the rebel Gonzalo...served in that country." 1 Perhaps because Lope Garcia de Castro, who as a judge denied him his request to be named his...
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The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega
Book by Hugo Albert Rennert; Hispanic Society of America, 1909
Subjects: Theater--Spain--History
...another corral , belonging to Cristobal de la Puente, in the Calle del Lobo...were moved from the corral of Cristobal de la Puente, and a new theater was...1579 :--En este dia se notifico a Cristobal de la Puente, dueno del corral de...
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Malpelo: Splendor under the Sea
Magazine article by Arturo Guerrero, Geoffrey Bolan; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 47, November 1995
Subjects: Colombia--Description and travel, Islands--Plants and animals
...Spains sixteenth-century chronicler Pedro Cieza de Leon knew of it, writing that Perus colonial administrator, Cristobal Vaca de Castro, had passed by a rocky island that sailors called Mal Pelo in 1542. The origin of the name isnt certain, but...
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Unraveling an Inca Mystery: In the Andes, a Burial-Site Discovery of Knotted String Called Khipu Has Experts Wondering What the Ancients Were Trying to Tell Us
Magazine article by Chris Hardman; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 58, September 2006
Subjects: Andes--History, Cemeteries--History, String--Discovery and exploration
...Incas signed by a Fray Antonio in 1608: "The viceroy Cristobal Vaca de Castro gathered together the oldest inhabitants of Cuzco and...transcribed." Another prolific chronicler, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, included drawings of khipu in his Nueva coronica...


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Vaca De Castro, CristÓbal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VACA DE CASTRO, CRISTOBAL kresto bal va ka tha ka stro, fl...Almagro ), who was defeated in 1542. Vaca de Castro was succeeded by the first viceroy...in 1544. The viceroy, suspecting Vaca de Castro of sympathizing with the rebellion...
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Castro, Vaca De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CASTRO, VACA DE see Vaca de Castro, Cristobal . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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