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July 31, 1564 (aged 52–53) Mexico City, Viceroyalty 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.
May 23, 2018 · Luis de Velasco (1511-1564) was the second viceroy of New Spain (now Mexico). A devoted and loyal public servant, he consolidated Spanish control over New Spain and implemented legislation ending Indian slavery in his viceroyalty.
Dec 22, 2021 · SUMMARY. Paquiquineo, later Don Luís de Velasco, was a Virginia Indian who encountered Spanish explorers on the Chesapeake Bay in 1561 and returned to Spain with them, either voluntarily or as a captive.
In North America: The North American Indian heritage. Luis de Velasco, a 16th-century viceroy of New Spain (Mexico), put the total for the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America at about 5,000,000; some modern scholars, however, have suggested a figure two to five times larger for the year 1492.
Luis de ("The Younger") Velasco (b. 1538; d. 1617), viceroy of Mexico and of Peru. Born in Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, in Spain, Velasco first went to Mexico in 1560 to join his father, who was the second viceroy.
Luis de Velasco ( b. ca. 1511; d. 1564), second viceroy of Mexico. Velasco was born in Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, in Spain, into the extended family of the constables of Castile. His early career included service in France and Navarre (viceroy, 1547–1548). In 1549 he was appointed the viceroy of Mexico.
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Nov 1, 1979 · María Justina Sarabia Viejo has produced a significant administrative study of Luis de Velasco the Elder, second viceroy of Mexico (1550-1564). The text is based principally on documentary evidence combed from the archives of Spain, Mexico, Britain, and the United States.
