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Governors of New Granada[edit]

Early governors of New Granada[edit]

No. Name

(Birth–Death)

Place of birth

Nation or territory

Term of office Monarch

Reign

Took office Left office Duration
1 Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

(1509–1579)

Granada or Córdoba

Crown of Castile

1538 1539 1 year Charles I

King of Castile (1516–1556)

2 Hernán Pérez de Quesada

(c. 1515–1544)

Granada

Crown of Castile

1539 1542 3 years
3 Luis Alonso de Lugo

(c. 1506–1556)

San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Crown of Castile

1542 1544 2 years
4 Lope Montalvo de Lugo

(unknown)

Salamanca

Crown of Castile

1544 1545 1 year
5 Pedro de Ursúa

(1526–1561)

Baztan

Kingdom of Navarre

1545 1546 1 year
5 Miguel Díez de Armendáriz

(unknown–1551)

Sigüenza

Crown of Castile

1546 1550 4 years
6 Juan de Montaño

(unknown)

Unknown

Crown of Castile

1551 1558 7 years

President governor of New Granada[edit]

No. Name

(Birth–Death)

Place of birth

Nation or territory

Term of office Monarch

Reign

Took office Left office Duration
1 Andrés Díaz Venero de Leyva

(1515–1576)

Burgos

Crown of Castile

1564 1574 10 years Charles I

King of Castile (1516–1556)

2 Francisco Briceño Gasco

(1500–1575)

Corral de Almaguer

Crown of Castile

1575 1575 less than a year
3 Lope Díez de Aux y Armendáriz

(1520–1585)

Tudela

Kingdom of Navarre

1578 1580 2 years
- Francisco Guillén Chaparro

(1554–1600)

Medina de las Torres

Crown of Castile

1582 1590 8 years
4 Antonio González

(1535–1601)

Pedraza

Crown of Castile

1590 1597 7 years
5 Francisco de Sande

(1540–1602)

Cáceres

Crown of Castile

1597 1602 5 years
6 Juan de Borja y Armendia

(1564–1628)

Gandía

Crown of Aragón

1605 1628 23 years
7 Sancho Girón de Narváez

(unknown–1637)

Talavera de la Reina

Crown of Castile

1630 1637 7 years
8 Martín de Saavedra Galindo de Guzmán

(1594–1654)

Córdoba

Crown of Castile

1637 1645 8 years

Viceroys of New Granada[edit]

Governors of Klein-Venedig[edit]

No. Name

(Birth–Death)

Place of birth

Nation or territory

Term of office Monarch

Reign

Took office Left office Duration
1 Ambrosius Ehinger

(c. 1500–1533)

Elchingen

Free Imperial City of Ulm

1528 1533 5 years Charles V

Holy Roman Emperor (1519–1556)

2 Georg von Speyer

(c. 1500–1540)

Speyer

Free Imperial City of Speyer

1534 1539 5 years
3 Philipp von Hutten

(1505–1546)

Haßberge

Electorate of the Palatinate

1540 1546 6 years

Governors of the Providence Island Colony[edit]

No. Name

(Birth–Death)

Place of birth

Nation or territory

Term of office Monarch

Reign

Took office Left office Duration
1 Philip Bell

(1590–1678)

Norfolk

Kingdom of England

1629 1636 7 years Charles I

King of England (1625–1649)

2 Robert Hunt

(unknown)

Unknown

Kingdom of England

1636 1638 2 years
3 Nathaniel Butler

(c. 1577–unknown)

Unknown

Kingdom of England

1638 1640 2 years

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