List of governors of dependent territories in the 16th century, the Glossary
This is a list of territorial governors in the 16th century (1501–1600) AD, such as the administrators of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies.[1]
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206 relations: Afonso Ribeiro, Aires de Saldanha, Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Alcatrazes Islands, Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Alonso de Estrada, Alonso de Maldonado, Alonso de Zuazo, Alonso Muñoz, Andrés de Tapia Motelchiuh, Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Cañete, António de Saldanha, António, Prior of Crato, Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland), Antonio de Mendoza, Archduke Ernest of Austria, Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, Azcapotzalco (altepetl), Aztec Empire, Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga, 1st Marquess of Villamanrique, Blasco Núñez Vela, Boa Vista, Cape Verde, Brava, Cape Verde, Chimalpilli II, Client state, Colonial Brazil, Colonial governors by year, Colony, Colony of Santiago, Constantino of Braganza, Cristóbal de Guzmán Cecetzin, Cristóbal de Tapia, Cristóbal Ramírez de Cartagena, Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, Cristóvão de Távora, Cristóvão Soares de Melo, Crown Dependencies, Cuernavaca, Dependent territory, Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin, Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin, Diego Delgadillo, Diego López de Zúñiga, 4th Count of Nieva, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Diogo Botelho Pereira, Duarte de Menezes, Duarte Lôbo da Gama, Duke of Normandy, Ecatepec de Morelos, Ecclesiastical fief, ... Expand index (156 more) »
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Afonso Ribeiro
Afonso Ribeiro was the first person exiled in Brazil, namely referred to in the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha of 1500.
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Aires de Saldanha
Aires de Saldanha (Santarém, Portugal, 10 May 1542 - Terceira, 19 August 1605) was a Portuguese military.
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Albert VII, Archduke of Austria
Albert VII (Albrecht VII; 13 November 1559 – 13 July 1621) was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621.
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Alcatrazes Islands
Alcatrazes is a Brazilian archipelago, located some 35 km south of São Sebastião, in the northern coast of the State of São Paulo, one hour away by boat, approximately.
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Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
Alexander Farnese (Alessandro Farnese, Alejandro Farnesio; 27 August 1545 – 3 December 1592) was an Italian noble and condottiero, who was Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1586 to 1592, as well as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592.
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Alonso de Estrada
Alonso de Estrada (Ciudad Real, Castile – 16 February 1530) was a colonial official in New Spain during the period of Hernán Cortés' government, and before the appointment of the first viceroy.
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Alonso de Maldonado
Alonso de Maldonado Diez de Ledesma (1480 Salamanca, Spain), was a Spanish lawyer and a member of the second Real Audiencia of Mexico, which governed New Spain from January 10, 1531 to April 16, 1535.
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Alonso de Zuazo
Alonso de Zuazo (also spelled Suazo) (1466 – March 1539) was a Spanish lawyer and colonial judge and governor in New Spain and in Santo Domingo.
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Alonso Muñoz
Alonso Muñoz (sometimes Alonso de Muñoz y Muso) (ca. 1512, Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Caravaca, Spain – December 19, 1568) was a high-ranking administrator in Spain and, from November 1567 to about July 1568, royal commissioner with Luis Carrillo for the inspection of the government of New Spain for King Philip II.
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Andrés de Tapia Motelchiuh
Don Andrés de Tapia Motelchiuh Huitznahuatlailótlac, also known as Motelchiuhtzin, was the ruler of Tenochtitlan (1525–1530).
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Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Cañete
Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza y Cabrera, 3rd Marquis of Cañete (c. 1500 – March 30, 1561), also known as El Viejo, was a Spanish military officer and, from June 29, 1556 to his death on March 30, 1561, the third Viceroy of Peru.
António de Saldanha
António de Saldanha was a Castilian-Portuguese 16th-century captain.
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António, Prior of Crato
António, Prior of Crato (153126 August 1595), sometimes called "The Determined", "The Fighter", "The Independentist" or "The Resistant", was a grandson of King Manuel I of Portugal who claimed the Portuguese throne during the 1580 dynastic crisis.
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Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland)
Sir Anthony St Leger, KG (or Sellenger; 1496 – 16 March 1559), of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle in Kent, was an English politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period.
Antonio de Mendoza
Antonio de Mendoza (1495 – 21 July 1552) was a Spanish colonial administrator who was the first viceroy of New Spain, serving from 14 November 1535 to 25 November 1550, and the second viceroy of Peru, from 23 September 1551, until his death on 21 July 1552.
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Archduke Ernest of Austria
Archduke Ernest of Austria (Ernst von Österreich; 15 June 1553 – 20 February 1595) was an Austrian prince, the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain.
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Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton
The Rt Hon. Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, KG (1536–1593), was a baron in the Peerage of England.
Azcapotzalco (altepetl)
Azcapotzalco was a pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (state), capital of the Tepanec empire, in the Valley of Mexico, on the western shore of Lake Texcoco.
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Aztec Empire
The Aztec Empire or the Triple Alliance (Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥) was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: italic, italic, and italic.
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Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga, 1st Marquess of Villamanrique
Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga, 1st Marquess of Villamanrique (Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga, primer marqués de Villamanrique) (d. 1590, in Spain), Spanish nobleman and the seventh viceroy of New Spain.
Blasco Núñez Vela
Blasco Núñez Vela (c. 1490 – January 18, 1546) was the first Spanish viceroy of South America ("Viceroyalty of Peru").
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Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Boa Vista (Portuguese for "good view"), sometimes incorrectly spelled Boavista, is a desert-like island that belongs to the Cape Verde Islands.
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Brava, Cape Verde
Brava (Portuguese for "wild" or "brave") is an island in Cape Verde, and is part of the Sotavento group, in the central Atlantic Ocean.
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Chimalpilli II
Chimalpilli II (died in year 2 Técpatl) was a Tlatoani (ruler) of the Nahua altepetl (city-state) Ecatepec, in 16th-century Mesoamerica.
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Client state
In the field of international relations, a client state, is a state that is economically, politically, and militarily subordinated to a more powerful controlling state.
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Colonial Brazil
Colonial Brazil (Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal.
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Colonial governors by year
These are lists of territorial governors by century and by year, such as the administrators of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies. List of governors of dependent territories in the 16th century and Colonial governors by year are lists of colonial governors by year.
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Colony
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule.
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Colony of Santiago
Santiago was a Spanish territory of the Spanish West Indies and within the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in the Caribbean region.
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Constantino of Braganza
D. Constantino of Braganza (Constantino de Bragança; 1528–1575) was a Portuguese nobleman, conquistador, and administrator of the Portuguese Empire.
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Cristóbal de Guzmán Cecetzin
Don Cristóbal de Guzmán Cecetzin (or Cecepaticatzin) was a colonial Nahua noble from Santa María Cuepopan in San Juan Tenochtitlan.
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Cristóbal de Tapia
Cristóbal de Tapia was an inspector sent to New Spain in 1521 to investigate the conduct of the conquistador Hernán Cortés, and if he deemed it necessary, to arrest him and bring him to trial.
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Cristóbal Ramírez de Cartagena
Cristóbal Ramírez de Cartagena was a licenciado and Spanish colonial administrator in Peru.
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Cristóbal Vaca de Castro
Cristóbal Vaca de Castro (c. 1492, Izagre, León, Spain – 1566, Valladolid, Spain) was a Spanish colonial administrator in Peru.
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Cristóvão de Távora
Cristóvão de Távora was a Portuguese colonial administrator.
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Cristóvão Soares de Melo
Cristóvão Soares de Melo (died 1584) was a Portuguese colonial administrator.
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Crown Dependencies
The Crown Dependencies are three offshore island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey, both located in the English Channel and together known as the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.
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Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca (Cuauhnāhuac, "near the woods", Otomi) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico.
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Dependent territory
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area.
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Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin
Don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin (or Panitzin) was a 16th-century Nahua noble.
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Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin
Don Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin (sometimes called Tehuetzquiti or Tehuetzqui) (died 1554) was the 16th tlatoani and second governor of Tenochtitlan.
Diego Delgadillo
Diego Delgadillo (b. Granada, Spain, d. 1533, Granada) was a judge of the first Real Audiencia of Mexico, which took control of the governance of New Spain from the conquistadors from December 9, 1528 to January 9, 1531.
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Diego López de Zúñiga, 4th Count of Nieva
Diego López de Zúñiga y Velasco, 4th Count of Nieva (Diego López de Zúñiga y Velasco, cuarto conde de Nieva) (c. 1510 – February 20, 1564 in Lima, Peru) was the fourth viceroy of Peru, from April 17, 1561 to his death on February 20, 1564.
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
Diego Velázquez de CuéllarPronounced: (1465 – c. June 12, 1524) was a Spanish conquistador and the first governor of Cuba.
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Diogo Botelho Pereira
Diogo Botelho Pereira was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman, colonial official, navigator and cartographer.
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Duarte de Menezes
D. Duarte de Meneses (before 1488 – after 1539) was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and colonial administrator, Governor of Tangier from 1508 to 1521 and 1536 to 1539, and Governor of India from 1522 to 1524.
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Duarte Lôbo da Gama
Duarte Lôbo da Gama was the first captain-general of Portuguese Cape Verde, from 7 August 1587 to 25 March 1591.
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Duke of Normandy
In the Middle Ages, the duke of Normandy was the ruler of the Duchy of Normandy in north-western France.
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Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec, officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the State of Mexico, and is situated in the north part of the Greater Mexico City urban area.
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Ecclesiastical fief
In the feudal system of the European Middle Ages, an ecclesiastical fief, held from the Catholic Church, followed all the laws laid down for temporal fiefs.
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Edward Bellingham
Sir Edward Bellingham (1506–1549) was an English soldier and lord deputy of Ireland.
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Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
Emmanuel Philibert (Emanuele Filiberto; Emanuel Filibert; 8 July 1528 – 30 August 1580), known as i (Testa 'd fer; "Ironhead", because of his military career), was Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 17 August 1553 until his death in 1580.
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Engelbert II of Nassau
Engelbert II of Nassau, Engelbrecht in Dutch (17 May 1451 – 31 May 1504), was count of Nassau and Vianden and lord of Breda, Lek, Diest, Roosendaal, Nispen and Wouw.
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English overseas possessions
The English overseas possessions comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonised, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the Kingdom of England before 1707.
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Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba (29 October 150711 December 1582), known as the Grand Duke of Alba (Grão Duque de Alba) in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke (or shortly 'Alva') in the Netherlands, was a Spanish noble, general and diplomat.
Fernando Torres de Portugal y Mesía
Fernando Torres de Portugal y Mesía Venegas y Ponce de León, first count of Villadompardo was Spanish viceroy of Peru from 1584 to 20 November 1589.
Fogo, Cape Verde
Fogo (Portuguese for "fire") is an island in the Sotavento group of Cape Verde in the central Atlantic Ocean.
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Francis Chamberlain (governor)
Sir Francis Chamberlain (1561–1570) was Governor of Guernsey.
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Francis Weston
Sir Francis Weston KB (1511 – 17 May 1536) was a gentleman of the Privy Chamber at the court of King Henry VIII of England.
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Francisco Barreto
Francisco Barreto (occasionally Francisco de Barreto, 1520 – 9 July 1573) was a Portuguese soldier and explorer.
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Francisco Ceinos
Francisco Ceinos (also spelled Francisco Ceynos) was one of five oidores (judges) of the second Real Audiencia of Mexico.
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Francisco de Almeida
Dom Francisco de Almeida, also known as the Great Dom Francisco (c. 1450 – 1 March 1510), was a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer.
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Francisco de Garay
Francisco de Garay (1475 in Sopuerta, Biscay – 1523) was a Spanish Basque conquistador.
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Francisco de Pina
Francisco de Pina (1585 – 1625) was a Portuguese Jesuit interpreter, missionary and priest, credited with creating the first Latinized script of the Vietnamese language, which the modern Vietnamese alphabet is based on.
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Francisco de Toledo
Francisco Álvarez de Toledo (Oropesa, 10 July 1515 – Escalona, 21 April 1582), also known as The Viceroyal Solon, was an aristocrat and soldier of the Kingdom of Spain and the fifth Viceroy of Peru.
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Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos (– 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
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French colonial empire
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete
García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete (July 21, 1535 – May 19, 1609) was a Spanish Governor of Chile, and later Viceroy of Peru (from January 8, 1590 to July 24, 1596).
Gaspar Correia
Gaspar Correia (1492 – c. 1563 in Goa) was a Portuguese historian considered a Portuguese Polybius.
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Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey
Gaspar de Zúñiga Acevedo y Fonseca, 5th Count of Monterrey (1560 – March 16, 1606, Peru) was a Spanish nobleman who was the ninth viceroy of New Spain.
Gastón de Peralta, 3rd Marquess of Falces
Gastón Carrillo de Peralta y Bosquete, 3rd Marquess of Falces (Spanish: Don Gastón Carrillo de Peralta, III marqués de Falces) (1510–1587) was a Spanish nobleman who was the third viceroy of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México) from October 16, 1566 to March 10, 1568.
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare KG (born –), known variously as "Garret the Great" (Gearóid Mór) or "The Great Earl" (An tIarla Mór), was Ireland's premier peer.
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
Gerard FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1487 – 12 December 1534; Irish: Gearóid Óg Mac Gearailt, meaning "Young Gerald FitzGerald"), was a leading figure in 16th-century Irish History.
Gil González Dávila
Gil González Dávila or Gil González de Ávila (b. 1480 – 21 April 1526) was a Spanish conquistador and the first European to explore present-day Nicaragua.
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Gonzalo de Salazar
Gonzalo de Salazar (Granada, Castile –, New Spain) was an aristocrat, and leader of several councils that governed New Spain while Hernán Cortés was traveling to Honduras, in 1525−26.
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Gonzalo de Sandoval
Gonzalo de Sandoval (1497 – late 1528) was a Spanish conquistador in New Spain (Mexico)Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, and briefly co-governor of the colony while Hernán Cortés was away from the capital (March 2, 1527 to August 22, 1527).
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Gonzalo Pizarro
Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso (1510 – 10 April 1548) was a Spanish conquistador.
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Governorate General of Brazil
The Governorate General of Brazil (Governo-Geral do Brasil) was a colonial administration of the Portuguese Empire in present-day Brazil.
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Governorate of New Castile
The Governorate of New Castile (Gobernación de Nueva Castilla) was the gubernatorial region administered to Francisco Pizarro in 1529 by King Charles I of Spain, of which he was appointed governor.
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Guernsey
Guernsey (Guernésiais: Guernési; Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.
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Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain refers to Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy, also known as the Catholic Monarchy, in the period from 1516 to 1700 when it was ruled by kings from the House of Habsburg.
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Henrique de Meneses
D. Henrique de Meneses, 2nd Lord of Louriçal (1496 – 21 February 1526) was a Portuguese nobleman and colonial administrator, Governor of India from 1521 to 1524.
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Henry Sidney
Sir Henry Sidney (20 July 1529 – 5 May 1586) was an English soldier, politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland.
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Hernando de Manrique de Rojas
Hernando de Manrique de Rojas was a Spanish colonial governor of the Colony of Santiago (Jamaica) c.1575.
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Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
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Independence
Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state, in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory.
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Island of Mozambique
The Island of Mozambique (Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province.
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James Croft
Sir James Croft PC (c.1518 – 4 September 1590) was an English politician, who was Lord Deputy of Ireland, and MP for Herefordshire in the Parliament of England.
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Jean-François Roberval
Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval, also named "l'élu de Poix" or the Sieur de Roberval, (– 1560) was a French officer who was appointed viceroy of Canada by Francis I. He led the first French colonial attempt in the Saint Laurent valley in the first half of the 16th century with the explorer Jacques Cartier.
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João de Melo
João de Melo (1405-1486) was a Portuguese nobleman, alcaide-mor of Serpa, and copeiro-mor (Master of the Ceremonies) of Afonso V of Portugal.
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John of Austria
John of Austria (Johann von Österreich, Juan de Austria; 24 February 1547 – 1 October 1578) was the illegitimate son of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
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John Perrot
Sir John Perrot (7 November 1528 – 3 November 1592) was a member of the Welsh gentry who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England during the Tudor conquest of Ireland.
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John White (colonist and artist)
John White was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer.
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Juan de Esquivel
Juan de Esquivel (c. 1480 – c. 1513) was a Spanish colonist and first governor of the Colony of Santiago, now Jamaica.
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Juan de Saavedra
Juan de Saavedra was a soldier in the command of Diego de Almagro.
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Juan de Salmerón
Juan de Salmerón was a Spanish colonial official New Spain, and an oidor (judge) of the second Real Audiencia of Mexico, which governed the colony from January 10, 1531 until April 16, 1534.
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Juan Ortiz de Matienzo
Juan Ortiz de Matienzo was a Spanish colonial judge and an original member of the first Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, in 1512.
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Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin
Juan Velázquez Tlacotzin was an Aztec leader in Tenochtitlan, during the final decades of the Aztec Empire.
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Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
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Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.
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Kingdom of Ireland
The Kingdom of Ireland (Ríoghacht Éireann; Ríocht na hÉireann) was a dependent territory of England and then of Great Britain from 1542 to the end of 1800.
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Kingdom of Portugal
The Kingdom of Portugal was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.
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Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane
Leonard Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1479/149228 July 1541), known as Lord Leonard Grey prior to 1536, served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to 1540.
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Lieutenant General of New France
Lieutenant General of New France was the title of a French official who governed early New France (including the colonies of Canada and Acadia) from 1598 until 1627.
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List of British monarchs
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.
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List of colonial governors of Angola
This is a list of European (Portuguese and Dutch) colonial administrators responsible for the territory of Portuguese Angola, an area equivalent to modern-day Republic of Angola.
List of colonial governors of Cape Verde
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List of colonial governors of Mozambique
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List of English monarchs
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List of governors of dependent territories in the 15th century
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List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century
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List of governors of Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe
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List of governors of Tangier
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List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands
The governor (landvoogd) or governor-general (gouverneur-generaal) of the Habsburg Netherlands was a representative appointed by the Holy Roman emperor (1504-1556), the king of Spain (1556-1598, 1621-1706), and the archduke of Austria (1716-1794), to administer the Burgundian inheritance of the House of Habsburg in the Low Countries when the monarch was absent from the territory.
List of heads of state of France
Monarchs ruled the Kingdom of France from the establishment of Francia in 509 to 1870, except for certain periods from 1792 to 1852.
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List of heads of state of Spain
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List of Portuguese monarchs
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List of state leaders in 16th-century South Asia
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List of viceroys of New Spain
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List of viceroys of Peru
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Lope García de Castro
Lope García de Castro (1516 - 8 January 1576) was a Spanish colonial administrator, member of the Council of the Indies and of the Audiencias of Panama and Lima.
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Lopo de Almeida
Lopo de Almeida (1416–1486) was the first Count of Abrantes bestowed with the title on June 13, 1476 by King D. Afonso V of Portugal.
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Lord Deputy of Ireland
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Lords Justices of Ireland
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Lordship of Ireland
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Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, 5th Count of Coruña
Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, 5th Count of Coruña (Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, quinto conde de Coruña) (Guadalajara, Spain – June 29, 1583, Mexico City) was the fifth viceroy of New Spain, who governed from October 4, 1580 to June 29, 1583.
Luis Carrillo
Luis Carrillo was, from November 1567 to about July 1568, royal commissioner with Alonso Muñoz for the inspection of the viceregal government of New Spain for King Philip II.
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Luis de la Torre
Luis de la Torre was one of the Spanish conquistadors who governed New Spain while Hernán Cortés was absent from the capital.
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Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga
Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga (25 August 1528 – 5 March 1576) was a Spanish general, sailor, diplomat and politician.
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Luis de Santa María Nanacacipactzin
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Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquess of Salinas del Río Pisuerga
Luis de Velasco, 1st Marquess of Salinas del Río Pisuerga (c. 1534 – September 7, 1617) was a Spanish nobleman who was the ninth viceroy of New Spain from January 27, 1590 to November 4, 1595, and again from July 2, 1607, to June 10, 1611.
Luis de Velasco, 2nd Viceroy of New Spain
Luis de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcón (1511 – July 31, 1564) was the second viceroy of New Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century.
Luis Ponce de León (governor of New Spain)
Luis Ponce de León (c. 1461 - July 20, 1526) was a Spanish judge and briefly the governor of New Spain, from July 4, 1526, to July 16, 1526.
Manuel de Andrade
Manuel de Andrade Fulano de Tal (b. in São Jorge), was an Azorean jurist.
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Marcos de Aguilar
Marcos de Aguilar (died March 1, 1527) was briefly royal governor of New Spain (from July 16, 1526 to March 1, 1527).
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Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy
Margaret of Austria (Margarete; Marguerite; Margaretha; Margarita; 10 January 1480 – 1 December 1530) was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530.
Margaret of Parma
Margaret (5 July 1522 – 18 January 1586) was Duchess of Parma from 1547 to 1586 as the wife of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582.
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Martín Enríquez de Almanza
Martín Enríquez de Almanza y Ulloa, (died ca. March 13, 1583) was the fourth viceroy of New Spain, who ruled in the name of Philip II from November 5, 1568 until October 3, 1580.
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Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands)
Mary of Austria (15 September 1505 – 18 October 1558), also known as Mary of Hungary, was queen of Hungary and Bohemia as the wife of King Louis II, and was later governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Melchor Bravo de Saravia
Melchor Bravo de Saravia y Sotomayor (1512 – 1577) was a Spanish conquistador, interim viceroy of Peru, and Royal Governor of Chile.
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Mem de Sá
Mem de Sá (c. 1500 – 2 March 1572) was a Governor-General of the Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1557 to 1572.
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Monarchy of Ireland
Monarchical systems of government have existed in Ireland from ancient times.
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New France
New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.
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New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.
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Nicholas Arnold (lord justice)
Sir Nicholas Arnold (1507–1580) was an English courtier and politician, who held office as lord justice of Ireland.
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Nuño de Guzmán
Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán (1558) was a Spanish conquistador and colonial administrator in New Spain.
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Pablo Xochiquentzin
Don Pablo Xochiquentzin (died 1536) was a ruler of the Aztecs.
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Paulo Dias de Novais
Paulo Dias de Novais (c. 1510 – 9 May 1589), a fidalgo of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola.
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Pedrinho Sousa
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Pedro Almíndez Chirino
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Pedro Cano
Pedro Cano (June 19, 1920 – June 24, 1952) was a Mexican-American World War II veteran who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat near Schevenhütte, Germany in December 1944.
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Pedro de Castro, 1st Duke of la Conquista
Pedro de Castro y Figueroa y Salazar, 1st Duke of la Conquista, 1st Marquess of Gracia Real, KOS, OSJ (8 December 1678, San Julián de Cela, A Coruña Province – 22 August 1741, Mexico City) was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain (from 17 August 1740 to 22 August 1741).
Pedro de la Gasca
Pedro de la Gasca (June 1485 – 13 November 1567) was a Spanish bishop, diplomat and the second (acting) viceroy of Peru, from 10 April 1547 to 27 January 1550.
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Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes
Pedro Henriquez d'Azevedo y Alvarez de Toledo, Count of Fuentes de Valdepero (1525 in Zamora, Spain – 22 July 1610 in Milan, Italy) was a Spanish general and statesman.
Pedro Moya de Contreras
Pedro Moya de Contreras (sometimes Pedro de Moya y Contreras) (c. 1528, Pedroche, Córdoba Province, Spain – December 21, 1591, Madrid) was a prelate and colonial administrator who held the three highest offices in the Spanish colony of New Spain, namely inquisitor general, Archbishop of Mexico, and Viceroy of Mexico, September 25, 1584 – October 17, 1585.
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Pero de Anaia
Pero de Anaia or Pedro d'Anaya or Anhaya or da Nhaya or da Naia (died March 1506) was a Castilian-Portuguese 16th-century knight, who established and became the first captain-major of the Portuguese Fort São Caetano in Sofala, and thus the first colonial governor of Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique).
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Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort
Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort (20 July 1517 – 25 May 1604) was a Spanish Imperial army commander of German origin and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1592 to 1594.
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1539) also known as Red Piers (Irish Piers Ruadh), was from the Polestown branch of the Butler family of Ireland.
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Portuguese Angola
In southwestern Africa, Portuguese Angola was a historical colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951), the overseas province Portuguese West Africa of Estado Novo Portugal (1951–1972), and the State of Angola of the Portuguese Empire (1972–1975).
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Portuguese Cape Verde
Cape Verde was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde Islands in 1462 until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975.
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Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Portuguese India
The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.
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Portuguese Mozambique
Portuguese Mozambique (Moçambique Portuguesa) or Portuguese East Africa (África Oriental Portuguesa) were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony.
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Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe islands were a colony of the Portuguese Empire from their discovery in 1470 until 1975, when independence was granted by Portugal.
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Portuguese Tangier
Portuguese Tangier covers the period of Portuguese rule over Tangier, today a city in Morocco.
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Praia
Praia (Portuguese for "beach") is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde.
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Protectorate
A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.
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Ralph Lane
Sir Ralph Lane (c. 1532 – October 1603), Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, 1902, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina Library, accessed 17 January 2010 was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era.
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Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Cape Verde
Ribeira Grande de Santiago is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde.
Richard Long (courtier)
Sir Richard Long (1546) was an English politician and courtier, for many years a member of the Privy Chamber of Henry VIII.
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Richard Weston (treasurer)
Sir Richard Weston (1465–1542), KB, of Sutton Place in the parish of Guildford in Surrey, was a courtier and diplomat who served as Governor of Guernsey, Treasurer of Calais and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer during the reign of King Henry VIII.
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Roanoke Colony
Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG, PC (10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599.
Rodrigo Afonso
Rodrigo Afonso (fl. late 15th century) was a Portuguese colonial administrator.
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Rodrigo de Albornoz
Rodrigo de Albornoz was an auditor and colonial official in New Spain during the period of Hernán Cortés's government, and before the appointment of the first viceroy.
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Sal, Cape Verde
Sal (Portuguese for "salt") is an island in Cape Verde.
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Sancho de Tovar
Sancho de Tovar, 6th Lord of Cevico, Caracena and Boca de Huérgano (c. 1465–1547) was a Portuguese nobleman of Castilian birth, best known as a navigator and explorer during the Portuguese age of discoveries.
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Santa Luzia, Cape Verde
Santa Luzia is an island of the Barlavento archipelago in Cape Verde located between São Nicolau and São Vicente, the channel of Santa Luzia separates the island of São Vicente and is 8 km wide.
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Santiago, Cape Verde
Santiago (Portuguese for “Saint James”) is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation's population.
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Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Santo Antão (Portuguese for "Saint Anthony") is the northwesternmost island of Cape Verde.
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Sebastián Ramírez de Fuenleal
Sebastián Ramírez de Fuenleal (Villaescusa de Haro, Cuenca, Spain – January 22, 1547, Valladolid, Spain) was bishop of Santo Domingo (in Latin) ''self-published'' and president of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo from 1528 to 1531.
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Sir Leonard Chamberlain
Sir Leonard Chamberlain or Chamberlayne (died 1561) was an English soldier and politician.
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Sofala
Sofala, at present known as Nova Sofala, used to be the chief seaport of the Mwenemutapa Kingdom, whose capital was at Mount Fura.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Sovereignty
Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
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Spanish Netherlands
The Spanish Netherlands (Países Bajos Españoles; Spaanse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas espagnols; Spanische Niederlande) (historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714.
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Tenochtitlan
italic, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City.
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Territory
A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal.
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Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh KGCharles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.
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Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, (10 March 1473 – 25 August 1554) was a prominent English politician and nobleman of the Tudor era.
Thomas Leighton (governor)
Sir Thomas Leighton (c. 1530–1610) was an English soldier and politician.
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Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
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Tlatoani
Tlahtoāni ("ruler, sovereign"; plural tlahtohqueh) is a historical title used by the dynastic rulers of āltepēmeh (singular āltepētl, often translated into English as "city-state"), autonomous political entities formed by many pre-Columbian Nahuatl-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico during the Postclassic Period.
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Tomé de Sousa
Tomé de Sousa (1503–1579) was the first governor-general of the Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1549 until 1553.
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Vasco de Carvalho
Vasco de Carvalho (9 March 1902 – 31 October 1990) was a Brazilian rower.
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Vasco de Quiroga
Vasco de Quiroga (1470/78 – 14 March 1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico, and one of the judges (oidores) in the second Real Audiencia of Mexico – the high court that governed New Spain – from January 10, 1531, to April 16, 1535.
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Viceroyalty of Peru
The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru, was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima.
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Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (– 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer.
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William de Croÿ
William II de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres (1458 – 28 May 1521) (also known as: Guillaume II de Croÿ, sieur de Chièvres in French; Guillermo II de Croÿ, señor de Chièvres, Xevres or Xebres in Spanish; Willem II van Croÿ, heer van Chièvres in Dutch) was the chief tutor and First Chamberlain to Charles V.
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William FitzWilliam (Lord Deputy)
Sir William FitzWilliam (1526–1599) was an English Lord Justice of Ireland and afterwards Lord Deputy of Ireland.
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William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh
William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (died 9 August 1613) was an English nobleman, politician, peer, and knight.
William Skeffington
Sir William Skeffington (c. 146531 December 1535) was an English knight who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland.
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See also
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 16th century
- List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
- List of popes from the Borgia family
- List of ship launches in the 16th century
- List of shipwrecks in the 16th century
- List of solar eclipses in the 16th century
- List of sovereign states in 1500
- List of sovereign states in 1528
- List of wars: 1500–1799
16th-century governors
- Adolf van Nieuwenaar
- Alvise Gritti
- Antoine of Lalaing, 1st Count of Hoogstraeten
- Charles II de Lalaing
- Charles de Brimeu
- Dragut
- Firuz Bey
- Florent de Berlaymont
- Floris van Egmont
- Francisco Verdugo
- Gaspar de Robles
- Georg Schenck van Toutenburg
- George de Lalaing, Count of Rennenberg
- Girolamo Donato
- Hadım Sinan Pasha
- Henry III of Nassau-Breda
- Herman van den Bergh
- Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg
- John III of Egmont
- John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 16th century
- Louis of Praet
- Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey
- Maurice, Prince of Orange
- Maximilian of Burgundy
- Pasquale Cicogna
- Philip de Lalaing, 2nd Count of Hoogstraten
- Philip de Lalaing, 3rd Count of Lalaing
- René of Chalon
- Sigrid Sture
- Willem IV van den Bergh
- William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
- William the Silent
- Yunus Pasha
Lists of 16th-century people
- Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 16th century
- List of 16th-century religious leaders
- List of colonists at Roanoke
- List of governors of dependent territories in the 16th century
- List of monarchs who lost their thrones in the 16th century
- List of peers 1500–1509
- List of peers 1510–1519
- List of peers 1520–1529
- List of peers 1530–1539
- List of peers 1540–1549
- List of peers 1550–1559
- List of peers 1560–1569
- List of peers 1570–1579
- List of peers 1580–1589
- List of peers 1590–1599
- List of printers in the Southern Netherlands
- List of state leaders in 16th-century South Asia
- List of state leaders in 17th-century South Asia
- List of state leaders in the 16th century
- List of state leaders in the 16th-century Holy Roman Empire
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_dependent_territories_in_the_16th_century
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