José Antonio de Mendoza Caamaño, third Marquis of Villagarcía and XXIX Viceroy of Peru . He was the eldest son of Don Antonio Domingo de Mendoza Caamaño, Marquis of Villagarcía, lord of the house of Rubianes, and Doña Juana Ibáñez de Ribera, lady of the town of Vegas. He was born in Villagarcía de Arosa (Pontevedra) in 1675. Knight of the order of Santiago and court gentleman of King Philip V, he was also ambassador to the Republic of Venice . Appointed in 1735 to occupy the viceroyalty of Peru and the presidency of the audience of Lima, he embarked in Cádiz aboard the warship "El Conquistador" and arrived at his new destination on January 4, 1736. His management was characterized by being orderly and honest, and had the advice of Pedro José Bravo de Lagunas from Lima. José Antonio de Mendoza lent ample cooperation and support to the work of the French scientific expedition, led by Carlos María de la Condamine, who came with the aim of measuring the degrees of the meridian in Quito, and to which the Spanish sailors Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa joined. In December 1736, he attended the auto de fe in which the Judaizer María Ana de Castro, the last person to be sentenced to death by the Lima Inquisition, was burned alive. In compliance with the royal decree of 1739, he definitively reestablished the Viceroyalty of New Granada, thus dismembering the jurisdiction of Quito from Peruvian territory. He fought against the English admiral Edward Vernon (1739), recovering the plaza of Portobelo, on the isthmus of Tierra Firme, which had been taken by him; and the pirate George Anson, responsible for the occupation and looting of Paita in November 1741, sinking five ships that were in the port and burning the town before leaving it.
In this time, in addition, the church of San Lázaro (today in the Rímac) was raised to the category of parish; the rich mineral of Potosí collapsed; new taxes were established for war; the cosmographer Cosme Bueno was commissioned to describe the provinces of the viceroyalty; there was a great earthquake in Valdivia and the towns of San Fernando and Santa Cruz de Triana were founded, in the kingdom of Chile. In 1742 the rebellion of the indigenous leader Juan Santos Atahualpa broke out, who revolted in Chanchamayo and Sacramento, and remained for several years in plan of resistance, raising the flag of the Incas .
Viceroy José Antonio de Mendoza delivered the insignia of command on July 12, 1745 to his successor, the Count of Superunda. He embarked to return to Spain on the ship "Héctor", taking the recently enabled route of Cape Horn. But he had the misfortune to perish on the high seas, in front of the Mangueira lagoon (Brazil), on December 14, 1745 when he was 79 years old. He was united in marriage with Doña Clara María de Barrionuevo y Monroy, Marchioness of Monroy.
Jose Fernando de Abascal y Sousa , XXXVIII viceroy of Peru. He became Marquis de la Concordia and Knight of the Order of Santiago. He was born in Oviedo (Asturias) on May 30, 1743. Son of Don José de Abascal y Sainz de Trueba and Doña Gertrudis de Sousa y Sánchez. From an early age he had a distingu