Diego de Vega
Diego de Vega | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1570 Lisboa, Kingdom of Portugal |
| Died | 1630s Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of Peru |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Spouse(s) | Blanca de Vasconcelos |
| Occupation | Trader Banker |
| Profession | financier |
Diego de Vega (1570-1630s) was a Portuguese merchant and financier.[1] He was the first banker in Buenos Aires during the viceroyalty of Peru.[2]
Biography[]
Born 1570 in Lisboa (Portugal), belonging to a family of Jews converted to Catholicism.[3] He arrived at the port of Buenos Aires in 1601 and was married on July 8, 1605 to Blanca de Vasconcelos, daughter of and Juana de Atouguia.[4]
Diego de Vega had contacts in various regions outside the Viceroyalty of Peru, Brazil and Lisboa are some of the places where he operated his business of smuggling.[5] He came to have great wealth, becoming the richest man in Buenos Aires in the early years of the 17th century, and also was listed as one of the strongest traders in the world in his time.[6]
References[]
- ^ Fronteras de la historia, Volume 10. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia. 2005.
- ^ Un historiador de garra--Raúl A. Molina. Vicente Osvaldo Cutolo. 1974.
- ^ Historia argentina, Volume 1. José María Rosa. 1974.
- ^ Todo es historia, Issues 49-54. Todo es Historia, 1971. 1971.
- ^ Contrabando y sociedad en el Río de la Plata colonial. by Macarena Perusset. 2006. ISBN 9789870219965.
- ^ Buenos Ayres, 1619. José Rafael Ramos Vértiz. 1982.
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Categories:
- 1570 births
- Jewish Portuguese history
- People from Buenos Aires
- Argentine Roman Catholics
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism
- Portuguese Roman Catholics