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Luis de Velasco | |
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2nd Viceroy of New Spain | |
In office November 25, 1550 – July 31, 1564 | |
Monarch | Charles I of Spain |
Preceded by | Antonio de Mendoza |
Succeeded by | Francisco Ceinos |
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Born | Luís de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcón c. 1511 Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, Spain |
Died | July 31, 1564 (aged 52–53) Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain |
Luis de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcón (1511 – July 31, 1564) was the second viceroy of New Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century.