Luis Díez de Aux y Armendáriz (Quito, c. 1571 - Barcelona, 3 January 1627) was a Spanish churchman and politician.
Biography
His family was from Navarra and Aragón, but he was born in
Quito, Ecuador
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where his father Lope Díez Aux de Armendáriz was president of the
Real Audiencia de Quito. His elder brother was
Lope Díez de Armendáriz
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*Lope de Isásaga (1493–1515), Basque Spanish ''conquistador''
*Lope de Aguirre (1510s – 1561), Basque Spanish ''c ...
, who would become 1st Marquess of Cadreita and
Viceroy of New Spain
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.
Luis moved to Spain and became a
Cistercian monk in the monastery of Valparaíso de Zamora. In 1613 the Duke of Lerma appointed him abbot of the monastery of
Santa María de la Oliva
The abbey of Santa María la Real de la Oliva, or simply ''La Oliva'', is a Cistercian monastery in Carcastillo, Navarre, Spain.
An example of Romanesque architecture, the buildings have been protected by a heritage listing since 1880,Heritag ...
in Navarra, thanks to his brother's services to the Crown.
He was
bishop of Jaca
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in 1618 and
Urgell
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in 1622, and as such was
co-prince of Andorra along with King Louis XIII of France.
In 1626 he was appointed
viceroy of Catalonia
This is a list of Spanish viceroys (also called lieutenants) of the Principality of Catalonia from 1479 to 1713.
*1479–1493: Enrique de Aragón
*1493–1495: Juan de Lanuza y Garabito
*1495–1496: Juan Fernández de Heredia
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by King Felipe IV.
He was also promoted to the
Archbishopric of Tarragona but he died in January 1627 before taking possession of it.
RAH, p. 412
References
Links
Real Academia de la Historia
17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Spain
Bishops of Urgell
People from Quito
1571 births
1627 deaths
Viceroys of Catalonia
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