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Pedro de Peralta (c. 1584 – 1666) was Governor of New Mexico between 1610 and 1613 at a time when it was a province of New Spain. He formally founded the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610. In August 1613 he was arrested and jailed for almost a year by the Franciscan friar Isidro Ordóñez.
Pedro de Peralta (born c. 1584, Spain—died 1666, Madrid) was a Spanish colonial official who established Santa Fe as the capital of New Mexico. Peralta arrived in Mexico City during the winter of 1608–09 following his university studies in Spain.
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Pedro de Peralta y Ezpeleta, also known as Pierres de Peralta the Younger (1421–1492) was a Navarrese nobleman, politician and military leader, active in the Navarrese Civil War (1451–1455). He was the first Count of Santisteban de Lerín, Baron of Marcilla, and lord of Peralta, Funes, Cárcar, Andosilla, Marcilla, Falces ...
One of them refers to the mozo named Pedro de Peralta mentioned earlier, who was a criado of don Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán in 1591, and whose name appears in the viceregal order cited earlier, allowing Saavedra Guzman to go to Spain with his criados Pedro de Peralta and Francisco Hernández.
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- Santa Fe Arrival
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- Return to Spain
In March 1609, the viceroy of Mexico appointed him to the post of governor of New Mexico, and from April to October of that year Peralta organized an expedition to the province. He evidently reached the colony’s San Gabriel settlement, which had served as the colonial capitol, by the following spring. He then moved the capitol to another settlement...
Peralta continued to serve the Spanish monarchy in the Americas, first as lieutenant commander of the Pacific port of Acapulco and then as alcalde of Mexico City’s royal warehouse (1621–22). In 1637 he traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, where he married and joined a commercial enterprise. From 1644 to 1652 Peralta served as auditor and later as treasu...
Peralta returned to Spain after sustaining injuries from residents who resented his attempts to collect debts owed to the monarchy. He resigned his commission in 1654 and lived in retirement in Madrid until his death in 1666.
Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo’s Lima fundada; o, conquista del Perú (1732; “Lima Founded; or, Conquest of Peru”) illustrates the promise and the pitfalls of the genre. While Peralta’s occasional poetry often confirms the staying power of Góngora, Lima fundada blends Alonso de Ercilla’s poetics with French Neoclassical prescriptions for…
Peralta's break with traditional verbalistic learning is less discernible despite a certain scientific pragmatism, but his more ornate erudition, elegance in style, and creative accomplishments exceeded, on balance, those of his Mexican counterpart.
