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| Died | 29 December 1672 Lima, Peru |
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Francisco de Meneses Brito (died 1672) was Royal Governor of Chile between 1664 and 1667.
Francisco de Meneses Brito | |
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| Born | 1615 Cádiz, Spain |
| Died | 29 December 1672 Lima, Peru |
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Francisco de Meneses Brito (died 1672) was Royal Governor of Chile between 1664 and 1667.
Born in Cádiz in 1615, was the son of Alonso de Meneses and Catalina Corbalán de Castilla. His wife was Catalina Bravo, daughter of Francisco Bravo de Saravia Ovalle (1st Marquess of la Pica) and Marcela Henestrosa Sáenz de Mena.
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Menezes, sometimes Meneses, was originally a Portuguese toponymic surname which originated in Montes Torozos, a region in Tierra de Campos, northeast of Valladolid and southeast of Palencia. The ancestor of the Meneses lineage was Tello Pérez de Meneses. The family wealth and power grew remarkably in the 13th and 14th centuries, through several marriages with the Castilian and Portuguese royal families.
Francisco López de Zúñiga y Meneses, 2nd Marquis of Baides and Count of Pedrosa was a Spanish soldier who served as Royal Governor of Chile from May 1639 to May 1646.
Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Real Betis and captains the Chile national team.
Luis Arturo Mena Irarrázabal is a retired Chilean professional footballer. He is the only player in Chilean football history to win more than 10 domestic league titles. He also holds more than 300 appearances for Colo-Colo, with seven goals. Because of this, Mena has been dubbed by Chilean press and Colo Colo fans as the "historic one".
Fernando Andrés Meneses Cornejo is a Chilean footballer who last played for Chilean Segunda División side Rodelindo Román as a midfielder.
Ángel de Peredo was a Knight of the Order of Santiago.
Fort de la Encarnación on the Repocura River was built in 1666 by a team overseen by Juan Ignacio de la Carrera and the orders of the Royal Governor of Chile Francisco de Meneses Brito. It was destroyed during a Mapuche rising in 1694 and rebuilt by Tomás Marín de Poveda with a nearby mission in December of the same year. These were destroyed in the 1723 Mapuche rising. Rebuilt again as Fort Repucura by Governor Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga in 1764, it was destroyed for the last time in the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
Fort Virhuenco was a Spanish fort located in what is now Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It was first established by Alonso de Ribera in 1613 as part of his system of frontier forts. It was located in the valley of Virhuén southeast of the city of Angol and in the upper part of the Rehue River near the western part the region of Quechereguas where the high mountains begin. Later it was abandoned or destroyed. Again in 1665 Governor Francisco de Meneses Brito erected there fort San Carlos, which, the Indians took and killed all the garrison on May 20, 1667.
The Repocura River of the La Araucanía Region of Chile has its source in the eastern slope of the Nahuelbuta Range northwest of the town of Cholchol and runs towards the southeast to join the Cholchol River on its western bank across from Cholchol. It is wide and of a depth that allows the navigation of small boats. The river crosses flat and fertile fields.
Los ángeles de Estela is a Chilean comedy-drama television series that originally aired on TVN and TV Chile from September 22, 2009, to March 19, 2010, starring, María Elena Swett, Jorge Zabaleta, Coca Guazzini, Francisco Pérez-Banenn and Cristián Arriagada.
Aquelarre is a Chilean television drama series created by Hugo Morales and directed by María Eugenia Rencoret, and Víctor Huertathat originally aired on Television Nacional de Chile (TVN) and TV Chile from August 4, to December 29, 1999.
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Vuelve temprano is a 2014 Chilean telenovela produced and broadcast by TVN.
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Juan Gregorio Bazán (1510-1570) was a Spanish military man, who served as Conquistador of Peru and Tucumán.
Matriarcas, is a Chilean television soap opera created by Sebastián Arrau, that aired on TVN and TV Chile from May 18, to December 30, 2015, starring Claudia Di Girólamo, Francisco Reyes, Blanca Lewin, Emilio Edwards, Josefina Fiebelkorn, Gloria Münchmeyer, Ximena Rivas, and Juan Falcón.
Matías Francisco Meneses Letelier is a Chilean football player who plays as forward for O'Higgins in Chilean Primera División.
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