Cristóbal de la Cerda y Sotomayor

Don Cristóbal de la Cerda
Royal Governor of Chile
In office December 1620 – November 1621
Monarch	Philip III
Prime Minister	Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda
Preceded by	Lope de Ulloa
Succeeded by	Pedro Osores
Personal details
Born	1585 Mexico City, Mexico
Spouse	Sebastiana de Avendaño
Profession	Lawyer

Cristóbal de la Cerda y Sotomayor, (México 1585? – † ? ); Spanish oidor, lawyer of the Real Audiencia of Chile. After the death of governor Lope de Ulloa y Lemos he assumed the temporary governance of Chile for eleven months, between December 1620 and November 1621.

Sources

• Medina, José Toribio (1906). Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Elzeviriana. pp. 197–203.

Government offices
Preceded by Lope de Ulloa	Royal Governor of Chile 1620–1621	Succeeded by Pedro Osores