Hernando de Ugarte y la Concha

Hernando de Ugarte y la Concha

15th Spanish Governor of New Mexico
In office 1649–1653
Preceded by	Luis de Guzmán y Figueroa
Succeeded by	Juan de Samaniego y Xaca

Personal details
Born	Fuenterabía in Guipúzcoa, Castille (in current Spain)

Hernando de Ugarte y la Concha was Governor of New Mexico from 1649 to 1653.

Biography

Hernando de Ugarte y la Concha was born in Fuenterabía in Guipúzcoa, Castile, son of Juan de Ugarte and Juana de Anguicia.^[1] After Martín de Zavala had opened up the Nuevo León region in 1626, Ugarte became Captain of the newly founded settlement of Monterrey.^[2]

Ugarte was appointed Governor of New Mexico by Matías de Peralta, dean of the Audiencia of New Spain, holding office from 1649 to 1653.^[3] In 1650, he dispatched an expedition from Santa Fe, led by Captain Diego del Castillo, to explore what is now north central Texas. The expedition reached the territory of the Tejas Indians, and reported finding pearls on the Concho River. The Diego de Guadalajara expedition was launched in 1654 to follow up on Castillo's findings.^[4]

In 1650, Ugarte put down an uprising among the Jemez Indians, allied with the Navajos and some of the Tigua villages, that was meant to include all the pueblos, although not all joined in.^[5] Nine of the Jemez Indians were hanged as traitors, and others were sold as slaves.^[6] Following Ugarte's governorship, the New Mexico Pueblo people became increasingly restless, resenting Spanish efforts to resettle them and convert them to Christianity, and eventually revolted and broke free of Spain in 1680.^[7]

References

Citations

^ Ugarte & Hendricks 1650.
^ Bass 2009.
^ García 2008, p. 35.
^ Castillo, Diego Del.
^ Bandelier 1890, p. 210.
^ Preucel 2007, p. 202.
^ Naranjo 1681.

Sources

Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse (1890). Final report of investigations among the Indians of the southwestern United States: carried on mainly in the years from 1880 to 1885. Printed by J. Wilson and son. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Bass, Steve (2009). "Basques in the Americas 1592-1692". Euskal Kazeta - Basque News. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
"Castillo, Diego Del". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
García, José (Winter 2008). "Colonial Governors 1641-1656". La Herencia. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Naranjo, Pedro (December 19, 1681). ""As They Had Been in Ancient Times": Pedro Naranjo Relates the Pueblo Revolt, 1680". History Matters. Rio del Norte.
Preucel, Robert W. (2007-01-25). Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World. UNM Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-4246-1. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
Ugarte, Hernando; Hendricks, Rick (1650). "Concha, Hernando de Ugarte y la". New Mexico State Record Center and Archives. Archived from the original on 2011-02-18. Retrieved 2012-07-21.