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Garcia Sarmiento de Sotomayor, 2nd conde de Salvatierra
Garcia Sarmiento de Sotomayor, 2nd Count of Salvatierra and Marquis of Sobroso was a Spanish viceroy of New Spain and of Peru (1648 to 1655).
Garcia Sarmiento de Sotomayor was born in Spain in the last decade of the Sixteenth Century. He was a descendant of Diego de Sarmiento, knight commander of the Order of Alcantara and gentleman in waiting to the king.
When New Spain Viceroy Diego Lopez Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla, marques de Villena fell under suspicion at the Spanish Court for possible links to Portuguese rebels, King Philip IV of Spain named Sarmiento de Sotomayor to replace ...
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