Juan Treviño de Guillamas

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Treviño and the second or maternal family name is Guillamas.

Juan Treviño de Guillamas (1558 – d. before 1636) was a Spanish governor of Spanish Florida (1613–1618) and Venezuela (1621–1623).

Biography

Juan Treviño de Guillamas was born in the city of Ávila, Spain, and was baptized on May 31, 1558, in the Parish of San Juan Bautista.^[1] The son of Juan de Treviño y Guillamás and María Mercadillo, Treviño was appointed Captain General and governor of the Spanish province of La Florida in 1613. He moved to the provincial capital of St. Augustine, but resigned from office five years later on August 2, 1618.^[2] Juan Treviño de Guillamás was also governor of Venezuela between 1621 and 1623,^[3] and of the Isla Margarita.

Treviño died before 1636.

Personal life

Juan Treviño de Guillamás married Ana María Pacheco y Zabala on November 15, 1589, in Havana, Cuba, and they had six children: Francisco, María Mercadillo, Catalina, Ana, Juan, and Teresa de Treviño y Pacheco. Teresa married Gonzalo Chacón de Narváez.^[4]