Juan Treviño de Guillamas

Juan Treviño de Guillamas (d. before 1636) was a Spanish governor of Spanish Florida (1613–1618) and Venezuela (1621–1623).

Biography[]

Juan Treviño de Guillamas was born in Avilés, Asturias, Spain. The son of Francisco de Treviño and Ana Guillamás y Barriobueno, Treviño was appointed Captain General and governor of the Spanish province of La Florida in 1613. He moved to the provincial capital of St. Augustine, but resigned from office five years later on August 2, 1618.^[1] Juan de Treviño Guillamás was also governor of Venezuela between 1621 and 1623,^[2] and of the Isla Margarita.

Treviño died before 1636.

Personal life[]

Juan Treviño y Guillamás married María Mercadillo and they had five children: Juan, Teresa, Francisco, Cristóbal and José de Treviño y Mercadillo. The first of them married Ana María Pacheco y Zabala on November 15, 1589 in Havana, Cuba. Teresa married Gonzalo Chacón de Narváez.

References[]

^ Amy Turner Bushnell (1987). David Hurst Thomas (ed.). Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History: The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, No. 74. Vol. 212. University of Georgia Press. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-0-8203-1712-0.
^ Pedro José Lara Peña (1 January 1988). Las Tesis Excluyentes de Soberanía Colombiana en el Golfo de Venezuela. Editorial Ex Libris. p. 423. ISBN 978-980-6200-00-5. Por Real Cédula expedida en Madrid el 5 de diciembre de 1620, fue nombrado por el Rey como gobernador y Capitán General de la Provincia, el Capitán Juan Treviño de Guillamas, para suceder a de la Hoz y Berrío. English: By a Royal Decree issued in Madrid on December 5, 1620, Captain Juan Treviño de Guillamas was appointed by the King as Governor and Captain General of the Province, to succeed de la Hoz y Berrío.

[Bushnell1987-1] Amy Turner Bushnell (1987). David Hurst Thomas (ed.). Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History: The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, No. 74. Vol. 212. University of Georgia Press. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-0-8203-1712-0.

[Peña1988-2] Pedro José Lara Peña (1 January 1988). Las Tesis Excluyentes de Soberanía Colombiana en el Golfo de Venezuela. Editorial Ex Libris. p. 423. ISBN 978-980-6200-00-5. Por Real Cédula expedida en Madrid el 5 de diciembre de 1620, fue nombrado por el Rey como gobernador y Capitán General de la Provincia, el Capitán Juan Treviño de Guillamas, para suceder a de la Hoz y Berrío. English: By a Royal Decree issued in Madrid on December 5, 1620, Captain Juan Treviño de Guillamas was appointed by the King as Governor and Captain General of the Province, to succeed de la Hoz y Berrío.

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