Baltasar de la Cueva Enriquez y Saavedra, conde del Castellar, marques de Malagon (sometimes Baltasar de la Cueva Henriquez Arias de Saavedra) (1626, Madrid—April 2, 1686Genealogy of Baltasar de la Cueva and Teresa Maria de Saavedra) was viceroy of Peru from August 15, 1674 to July 7, 1678.
He was a younger son of the Duke of Alburquerque. "Baltasar de la Cueva Enriquez" at Biografias y Vidas He married Teresa Maria de Saavedra.
His administration
He was welcomed upon his arrival in Peru at the port of Callao on August 11, 1674 with the celebration of a corrida. There were also bullfights in Lima on November 6, 1674. "Historia de las Ferias Taurinas en Peru"
On November 15, 1674 he reported to the Spanish Court that it was necessary to reduce the number of holidays in the viceroyalty, because the number then "exceeded 35, that, together with religious holidays, almost means that the greater part of the year is a holiday". On May 14, 1676 the Court issued a decree approving a reduction.
During his period of administration, the laws of the Indies were compiled. Pueblos Indiginas de Boliva Viceroy Cueva took steps to protect the Pacific coast from English and Dutch pirates. In 1675 he sent Antonio de Vea to investigate reports that the English had established bases in Patagonia.
Ilyas ibn Hanna al-Mawsili
Ilyas ibn Hanna al-Mawsili (Elias, son of John of Mosul), a Chaldean Christian and an Arab, departed from Cadiz, Spain for Peru on February 13, 1675. He was almost certainly the first Arab to visit the New World. His mission was to raise money for the repair of a Chaldean church in Baghdad and to gather alms for the Chaldean community. Ilyas traveled to many places in the viceroyalty, and met the viceroy in Lima. The two became friends.Paul Lunde, "The New World Through Arab Eyes", Saudi Aramco World, May/June 1992
Uprising of Pedro Bohorquez (Inca Hualpa)
During this time a curious fraud occurred, resulting in an Indian uprising. Rumors of enormous wealth hidden generations earlier by the Indigenous in caves and lakes circulated widely. A campesino born in Quito (some sources say he was born in Spain) named Pedro Bohorquez took advantage of these rumors. He announced that he was Inca Hualpa, a descendant of Atahualpa, and a prince of the Andes. He spoke perfect Quichua and had been accepted as a prince by the Andean tribes of Tucuman (Argentina). He claimed that his subjects knew the locations of the hidden treasures, and with that claim he was able to take in the governor of Rio de la Plata, Alonso Mercado y Villacorta, marques de Villacorta.
Inca Huallpa told the governor that for him to be able to get the information from the few subjects who knew it, the governor would need to recognize him as Prince of the Land. Only that would give him the authority to take possession of the hidden treasures. The governor did allow the Indigenous to proclaim him prince, and he even left with an entourage to greet and congratulate Inca Huallpa. The latter set out to meet the governor. They met in Tafi and exchanged compliments.
When Viceroy Cueva heard of the fraud, he ordered that Bohorquez (Inca Hualpa) be arrested. Bohorquez returned to his followers in the Andes, where he denounced the "treason" of the Spanish and incited the Indigenous to revolt. The Calchaquies took up arms, but they were disastrously defeated. The survivors were distributed to encomiendas. Other associated tribes were removed from their mountain valleys and transported to distant places. The Quilmes were transported to Buenos Aires, where a town still bears that name. Bohorquez himself was taken to Lima and hanged.
Other reports claim that Bohorques had earlier duped Viceroy Cueva, making him think that he had discovered the "fabulous country of Enin, and visited its gold palaces and precious treasures." The viceroy was deceived, and gave him 36 soldiers. Bohorquez then disappeared.
Removal from office
A conflict with the powerful merchants of the colony led to Cueva Enriquez's removal from office. "Biografia de Baltasar de la Cueva Enriquez" On July 7, 1678 Archbishop Melchor Linan y Cisneros replaced him as viceroy. He died in 1686.
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