Diego de Rebolledo


Diego de Rebolledo y Surez de Aponte, most known just as Diego de Rebolledo, was the colonial governor of la Florida between 1655 and 1659. He is considered by historians as one of more controversial and corrupt governors of Colonial Florida. He rejected the status they had the Timucua chiefs as hereditary chiefs of this people and administrative intermediaries, provoking an Timucuan uprising against the government of the province. Rebolledo was Knight of the Order of Santiago.

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