Francisco Pérez de Burgos

Francisco Pérez de Burgos (1558-1617) was a Spanish jurist, military man, merchant and politician, who had a preponderant role during the colonial period of Argentina, where he worked as a public and government notary of the city of Buenos Aires.

Escribano

Don Francisco Pérez de Burgos
Coat of Arms of Pérez de Burgos
Escribano Mayor de Gobierno of the Río de la Plata
In office
1589–1607
MonarchPhilip III of Spain
Preceded byAntón García Caro
Succeeded byManuel Martin
Alcalde of Buenos Aires
In office
1593–1594
MonarchPhilip II of Spain
Preceded by?
Succeeded by?
Personal details
Born
Francisco Pérez de Burgos y Martínez

1558
Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain
Died1617
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalitySpanish
Spouse(s)Juana de Aguilar y Salvatierra
Occupationnotary
government
army
farmer
Professionjurist
Signature
Military service
Allegiance Spanish Empire
Branch/serviceSpanish Army
Years of service1581-1610
RankCaptain
UnitFuerte de Buenos Aires

He was appointed Escribano Real for his Majesty Felipe II de España,[1] and held various honorary posts in the territories of the Viceroyalty of Peru, including as Mayor of Buenos Aires and Corrientes,[2] Notary public,[3] and Regidor of the Cabildo of Buenos Aires.[4]

Biography

He was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, the son of Diego Pérez de Burgos and Beatriz Martínez de Tremal, belonging to a distinguished Andalusian family.[5] He possibly did his studies in Seville, and arrival in the Río de La Plata from Cádiz in 1581.[6] He lived in Asunción and settled in Buenos Aries in 1583, where he married Juana de Aguilar y Salvatierra, daughter of Leonor de Zamora and her first husband Andrés Gil, natives of Ronda.[7]

Burgos was the successor of Antón García Caro, in the position of notary of Buenos Aires.[8] He served as notary public and of Cabildo until 1606, being replaced by Manuel Martin.[9] In 1606, Burgos presented before the City Council, his title of Royal Notary of the Spanish Indies, signed on February 11, 1581 by the King Philip II of Spain.[10]

He had an active participation as a government notary in the Río de la Plata. In 1584 he officiated the notarial deed in the interrogation conducted by Conquistador Don Juan de Torres de Vera y Aragón, against three English pirates, who had been persecuted by the Charruas Indians in the territory of Santa Fe Province. One of these pirates was John Drake, the nephew of Francis Drake.[11]

Burgos belonged to the second contingent of settlers established in the city of Buenos Aires. He also living in the provinces of San Miguel de Tucumán, Santa Fe and Corrientes. In 1596, he was appointed by Juan Ramírez de Velasco, to exercise the position of Alcalde and Justicia Mayor of Corrientes.[12]

Francisco Pérez de Burgos also served as Mayor of Buenos Aires,[13] and Captain in the Fuerte de Buenos Aires.[14] In 1614 he was elected regidor and appointed as fiel ejecutor of Buenos Aires, being replaced in that position on July 21 of that year by Francisco García Romero, a politician born in Extremadura.[15] He continued to serve as deputy of the City Council of Buenos Aires until 1616, and died in the same city on July 21, 1617.[16]

He also devoted himself to agriculture and took part in the hunting of cimarron cattle in the Province of Buenos Aires. In 1604 he received land grants in the Paraná River by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, governor of Buenos Aires.[17] He was the owner of a farm located on the Riachuelo to the south of the city.[18]

The passage of Burgos (pasaje de Burgos) today Puente Alsina, owes its name to Francisco Pérez de Burgos.[19] During the British invasions of the Río de la Plata, the Burgos passage was crossed by the English troops to enter the city of Buenos Aires.[20]

Family

Francisco Pérez de Burgos were the parents of numerous sons and daughters, among them Leonor de Aguilar Pérez de Burgos, who was married to Francisco de Manzanares y Dardos, a Spanish official born in Toledo, and Catalina Burgos de Aguilar y Salvatierra, wife of Juan Rodriguez de Estela, among whose descendants are Feliciano Pueyrredón and Juan Martín de Pueyrredón.[21]

The lineage of the Pérez de Burgos family possibly has its origin in Garci Perez de Burgos or Ferrán Pérez de Burgos, a Spanish nobleman from Burgos, who participated in the Conquista of Jerez de la Frontera,[22] and who served as vassal of the Kings of Castile.[23]

References
  1. Correspondencia de la ciudad de Buenos Ayres con los reyes de España: 1588-1615, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1915
  2. Actas capitulares de Corrientes: 1588 a 1646, G. Kraft, ltda, 1941
  3. Curso de derecho notarial: anotaciones y concordancias en relación al derecho positivo argentino por el Instituto Argentino de Cultura Notarial, Rufino Larraud, 1966
  4. Registro estadístico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Volume 13, Buenos Aires (Argentina : Province), 1872
  5. Génesis de la familia uruguaya, Libreria Adolfo Linardi, 1975, 1975
  6. Contrabando y sociedad en el Río de la Plata colonial, Editorial Dunken, 2006, p. 51, ISBN 9789870219965
  7. Investigaciones y ensayos, Volume 30. Academia Nacional de la Historia. 1981.
  8. Historia, Volume 10, Issue 38 - Volume 11, Issue 45, 1965, 1965
  9. Acuerdos del extinguido Cabildo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina). Cabildo, 1907
  10. Historia del derecho argentino, Volume 2, Ricardo Levene, 1945
  11. Las primeras experiencias comerciales del Plata: el comercio marítimo, 1580-1700, Raúl A. Molina, 1966
  12. Actas capitulares de Corrientes: 1588 a 1646, G. Kraft, ltda., 1941, 1941
  13. Registro estadístico de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Parts 1-2, Buenos Aires Province, 1860
  14. Fundación de la ciudad de Buenos Aires by Juan de Garay, LINKGUA, p. 42
  15. =Acuerdos del extinguido Cabildo de Buenos Aires (1614-1617) (PDF), Archivo General de la Nación Argentina
  16. La sociedad de Buenos Aires en sus derechos a mayorazgos y a otras fundaciones españolas: (siglo XVII), Jorge A. Serrano Redonnet
  17. Historia de Zárate, 1689-1909, Vicente Raúl Botta
  18. Historia de la ciudad de Buenos Aires...: 1536-1718, Rómulo Zabala, Enrique de Gandía
  19. Memoria, Argentina. Secretaría de Estado de Hacienda
  20. La política internacional en la historia argentina, Volume 1, Miguel Angel Cárcano
  21. Todo es historia, Temas213-218, Todo es historia
  22. Compendio del origen, antiguedad y nobleza de la familia y apellido de, Spain
  23. Nobiliario de los reinos y señoríos de España ...: ilustrado con un, Francisco Piferrer
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