Mateo Gil (conquistador)
Mateo Gil (c. 1540–1590s) was a Spanish conquistador, who served as alcalde and regidor of Santa Fe, Argentina, during the Viceroyalty of Peru.[1]
Mateo Gil | |
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Alcalde of Santa Fe | |
In office 1576–1576 | |
Monarch | Philip II of Spain |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1540 Jaraicejo, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain |
Died | 1590s Santa Fe, Argentina |
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Military service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Branch/service | Spanish Army |
Born in Jaraicejo, Gil had arrived at Río de la Plata in the expedition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.[2] In 1573, he participated in the delegation led by Juan de Garay to found Santa Fe and is named as one of the settlement's first regidores.[3]
Mateo Gil also participated in the wars against the indigenous Charrúa people, he is remembered for his extreme cruelty.[4] Although contemporary references don't support this claim.
References
- Barriera, Darío G. (2008). "Voces Legas, Letras de Justicia. Las Culturas Jurídicas de los Legos en el Río de la Plata Entre los Siglos XVI y XIX" [Legal Voices, Letters of Justice. Legal Cultures of the Laity in the Río de la Plata Between the 16th and 19th Centuries]. In Mantecón Movellán, Tomás Antonio (ed.). Bajtín y la Historia de la Cultura Popular: Cuarenta Años de Debate [Bakhtin and the History of Popular Culture: Forty Years of Debate] (in Spanish). Santander, Spain: Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. ISBN 9788481025002.
- Calvo, Luis María (1999). Santa Fe la Vieja: Población y Grupos Familiares Españoles, 1573–1660 [Santa Fe la Vieja: Spanish Population and Family Groups, 1573–1660] (in Spanish). Caracas, Venezuela: Academia Nacional de la Historia.
- de Garay, Juan. "1573 — Acta de Fundación de la Ciudad de Santa Fe". Argentina Histórica. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
- Guevara, José (1882). Historia de la Conquista del Paraguay, Rio de la Plata y Tucuman, Volume 1 [History of the conquest of Paraguay, Rio de la Plata and Tucuman] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: E. Ostwald.
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