Royal Governor of Chile

The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district known as the "Kingdom of Chile". This district was also called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General. There were 66 such governors or captains during the Spanish conquest and the later periods of Spanish-centered colonialism.

Governors of the Kingdom of Chile

=Appointed by Charles I=

*Pedro de Valdivia: (August 1540 - December 1547)
*Francisco de Villagra Velásquez: (December 1547 - July 1549); (December 1553 - February 1555); (May 1556 - April 1557).
*Pedro de Valdivia: (20 July 1549 - 25 December 1553)
*Rodrigo de Quiroga López de Ulloa: (December 1553 - February 1555)
*Francisco de Aguirre de Meneses: (December 1553 - February 1555)
*Francisco de Villagra Velásquez: (December 1553 - February 1555)

:Between February 1555 and May 1556 Cabildos in the cities of Chile governed themselves while the dispute over the governorship was settled by the "Real Audiencia" in Lima.

Appointed by Phillip II

*Francisco de Villagra Velásquez: (May 1556 - April 1557).
*García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete: (April 1557 - February 1561)
*Francisco de Villagra Velásquez: (February 1561 - June 1563)
*Pedro de Villagra y Martínez: (June 1563 - June 1565)
*Rodrigo de Quiroga López de Ulloa: (June 1565 - August 1567)

:The "Real Audiencia" governed between August 1567 and August 1568

*Melchor Bravo de Saravia Sotomayor: (August 1568 - January 1575)
*Rodrigo de Quiroga López de Ulloa: (January 1575 - February 1580)
*Martín Ruiz de Gamboa de Berriz: (February 1580 - July 1583)
*Alonso de Sotomayor y Valmediano: (September 1583 - July 1592)
*Pedro de Viscarra de la Barrera: (July 1592 - October 1592)
*Martín García Óñez de Loyola: (October 1592 - December 1598)

=Appointed by Philip III=

*Pedro de Viscarra de la Barrera: (December 1598 - May 1599)
*Francisco de Quiñónez: (May 1599 - July 1600)
*Alonso García de Ramón: (July 1600 - February 1601); (March 1605 - September 1607)
*Alonso de Ribera de Pareja: (February 1601 - March 1605); (March 1612 - March 1617)
*Luis Merlo de la Fuente Ruiz de Beteta: (September 1607 - January 1611)
*Juan Jaraquemada: (January 1611 - March 1612)
*Fernando Talaverano Gallegos: (March 1617 - January 1618)
*Lope de Ulloa y Lemos: (January 1618 - December 1620)
*Cristóbal de la Cerda y Sotomayor: (December 1620 - November 1621)

=Appointed by Philip IV=

*Pedro Osores de Ulloa: (November 1621 - September 1624)
*Francisco de Álava y Nureña: (September 1624 - May 1625)
*Luis Fernández de Córdoba y Arce: (May 1625 - December 1629)
*Francisco Laso de la Vega: (December 1629 - May 1639)
*Francisco López de Zúñiga, Marquis of Baides: (May 1639 - May 1646)
*Martín de Mujica y Buitrón: (May 1646 - April 1649)
*Alonso de Figueroa y Córdoba: (April 1649 - May 1650)
*Francisco Antonio de Acuña Cabrera y Bayona: (May 1650 - January 1656)
*Pedro Porter Cesanete: (January 1656 - February 1662)
*Diego González Montero Justiniano: (February 1662 - May 1662)
*Ángel de Peredo: (May 1662 - January 1664)
*Francisco de Meneses Brito: (January 1664 - 1667)

=Appointed by Charles II=

*Diego Dávila Coello, Marquis of Navamorquende: (1667 - February 1670)
*Diego González Montero Justiniano: (February 1670 - October 1670)
*Juan Henríquez de Villalobos: (October 1670 - April 1682)
*Marcos José de Garro Senei de Artola: (April 1682 - January 1692)
*Tomás Marín González de Poveda, Marquis of Cañada Hermosa: (January 1692 - December 1700)

Appointed by Phillip V

*Francisco Ibáñez de Segovia y Peralta: (December 1700 - February 1709)
*Juan Andrés de Ustariz de Vertizberea: (February 1709 - December 1716)
*José de Santiago Concha y Salvatierra: (December 1716 - December 1717)
*Gabriel Cano de Aponte: (17 December 1717 - 11 November 1733)
*Francisco de Sánchez de la Barreda: (November 1733 - May 1734)
*Manuel Silvestre de Salamanca Cano: (May 1734 - November 1737)
*José Antonio Manso de Velasco, Count of Superunda: (November 1737 - June 1744)
*Francisco José de Ovando, Marquis of Ovando: (June 1745 - March 1746)

=Appointed by Ferdinand VI=

*Domingo Ortiz de Rosas, Marquis of Poblaciones: (March 1746 - December 1755)
*Manuel de Amat y Juniet: (December 1755 - September 1761)

=Appointed by Charles III=

*Félix de Berroeta: (September 1761 - October 1762)
*Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga: (October 1762 - August 1768)
*Juan de Balmaseda y Censano Beltrán: (August 1768 - March 1770)
*Francisco Javier de Morales: (March 1770 - March 1772)
*Agustín de Jáuregui y Aldecoa: (March 1772 - July 1780)
*Tomás Álvarez de Acevedo Ordaz: (July 1780 - December 1780); (April 1787 - May 1788)
*Ambrosio de Benavides: (December 1780 - April 1787)

=Appointed by Charles IV=

*Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno: (May 1788 - May 1796)
*José de Rezabal y Ugarte: (May 1796 - September 1796)
*Gabriel de Avilés y del Fierro, marqués de Avilés: (September 18, 1796 - January 21 1799)
*Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas: (January 1799 - April 1801)
*José de Santiago Concha Jiménez Lobatón: (April 1801 - December 1801)
*Francisco Tadeo Diez de Medina Vidanges: (December 1801 - January 1802)
*Luis Muñoz de Guzmán: (January 1802 - February 1808)

=Appointed by Ferdinand VII=

*Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros: (February 1808 - April 1808)
*Francisco Antonio García Carrasco Díaz: (April 1808 - July 1810)
*Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, Count of la Conquista: (July 1810 - September 1810):Period of the Reconquista Española: Governors and Captain-Generals (in opposition)
*Antonio Pareja: (December 12, 1812 - May 21, 1813)
*Juan Francisco Sánchez: (May 21, 1813 - January 1, 1814)
*Gabino Gaínza y Fernández de Medrano: (January 1, 1814 - July 19, 1814)
*Mariano Osorio: (July 19, 1814 - December 26, 1815)
*Casimiro Marcó del Pont Ángel Díaz y Méndez: (December 26, 1815 - February 12, 1817)
*Mariano Osorio: (January 4, 1818 - April 5, 1818)

Sources

* Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche, [http://books.google.com/books?id=vCeESt7A93EC Descripcion Histórico Geografía del Reino de Chile, Tomo II, (Description Historical Geography of the Kingdom of Chile), Coleccíon de historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la historia nacional Vol. IX, By Diego Barros Arana, Sociedad Chilena de Historia y Geografía, Francisco Solano Astaburuaga, Instituto Chileno de Cultura Hispánica, Miguel Luis Amunátegui, Academia Chilena de la Historia, José Toribio Medina, Luis Montt, Published by Imprenta del Ferrocarril, 1875] Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized Aug 4, 2005, History of Chile 1542-1788)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=vCeESt7A93EC&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA469,M1 Pg.469 List of Governors and Captain Generals of Chile]