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'''Diego de Rebolledo y Suárez de Aponte''', most known just as '''Diego de Rebolledo''', was the colonial governor of la Florida between 1655 and 1659. He is considered by historians as one of more controversial and corrupt [[List of colonial governors of Florida|governors of Colonial Florida]]. He rejected the status they had the [[Timucua]] chiefs as hereditary chiefs of this people and administrative intermediaries, provoking an Timucuan uprising against the government of the province. Rebolledo was Knight of the [[Order of Santiago]].<ref> E. Worth, John. [http://books.google.es/books?id=U5gWyZbNRaoC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=Diego+de+Rebolledo,+governor+of+Florida&source=bl&ots=z670KUuozY&sig=kcJxPVg1XK8xuq0YDeLcwjJ6kHo&hl=es&sa=X&ei=Ly7DU7j2B4nx0gXi_IDoDg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Diego%20de%20Rebolledo%2C%20governor%20of%20Florida&f=false The Struggle for the Georgia Coast]. Page 69.</ref>
==Florida´s government==
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Diego de Rebolledo y Suárez de Aponte<ref name="JoWFloridaGovernors"> [http://uwf.edu/jworth/spanfla_govs.htm John Worth - Spanish Florida - Governors]. Retrieved in July 8, 2014, to 00:10 pm. </ref> was son of a former royal [[treasurer]] of the [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]]'s Spanish city.
He was appointed governor of la Florida province on March 24, 1653, arriving at [[Saint Augustine, Florida|Saint Augustine]] on June 18, 1654.<ref name="Timucuan PRELUDE TO REBELLION">[http://etd.fcla.edu/WF/WFE0000264/Borgen_Linda_Suzanne_Cecelia_201105_MA.pdf PRELUDE TO REBELLION: DIEGO DE REBOLLEDO VS. LÚCAS MENÉNDEZ IN MID-17TH. CENTURY SPANISH FLORIDA].
When Rebolledo arrived in Florida, unveiled its little experience in Hispanic American government when he held office, contradicting the local traditions in regard to the distribution of gifts and sustenance of the mission chiefs who were held in the province. So when [[Timucua]] chiefs traveled to Saint Augustine to swear to obey the governor, Rebolledo not delivered any gifts or support to indigenous, one something that did the previous governors, who gave away things in return for their obedience,<ref name="Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida"/> because Timucua towns haven´t nothing that interesting to Rebolledo to fetch in good price in the [[Habana]] market. For those who have deerskins or other salable items, the governor offered them all the gifts that could subsidize.<ref name="Zamumo's Gifts">[http://books.google.es/books?id=kgaM6d_Ch2gC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=Diego+de+Rebolledo+,+governor&source=bl&ots=ZpbBsCXocx&sig=3bSOoUg8LpBc3YY5P4AybLZBIfw&hl=es&sa=X&ei=FirRU7K6Aaec0AWH_YGQCg&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Diego%20de%20Rebolledo%20%2C%20governor&f=false Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast].
Later, Prado explained that gifts should be distributed only by the quartermaster and should be independent of the treasurer's account in order to control costs, but still believed Rebolledo was the governor who would continue to monitor the distribution. The [[Fiscal Council]] of India ruled in favor of Prado in 1656. During his rule, in order to enrich themselves, committed illegal activities to exploit both Amerindians as soldiers in Florida. Rebollero bought goods in Havana and developed a trade with the Indians based on barter, on the coast close to [[Cape Canaveral]]. There, he sold them iron tools and other goods in exchange for amber, which he sold in [[Havana]], paying real taxes. Thus, gifts replaced by trade with the Indians. The former [[Pedro Benedit Horruytiner]] governor criticized of Rebollero that he was only trading with the Amerindians of the coast, explaining that he should to give something also to all Indian chiefs.
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There were also complaints of former governors and some Amerindian caciques about how the new governor treated those last. So, some of them, were found eating in the house of treasurers because apparently Rebolledo refused to feed them, when he, as governor, he must have given them to eat if they were hungry and asked him for food. In addition, in 1665, when a plague came to [[Guale]] and Timucua lands by two years, killing many people, Rebolledo did nothing to help, but that he gather a lot more people in those places. Also, he increased the labor quotas in Guale. <ref name="Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida"/>
For other hand, when also in 1665 Saint Augustine suffered a shortage, Rebolledo ordered to the Amerindians of Timucua and Apalachee to carried grain in the city, although they protested against the governor to the Franciscans and complained of that they should to share his few food resources (soils of agricultural lands of the places they lived were poor) and the long distance between their places of settlement and Saint Augustine. <ref>[http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30149124?uid=3737952&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21104383772467 Timucuan Rebellion of 1656: The Rebolledo investigation and the Civil Religious controversy]
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=== Timucua Revolt ===
For other hand, Rebolledo ordered the chiefs of the [[Apalachee]] and [[Timucua]], that they give provicions and five hundred of their people to Saint Augustine<ref name="People's History of Florida"> [http://books.google.es/books?id=eedAiD-1RMwC&pg=RA2-PA101&lpg=RA2-PA101&dq=Fulgencio+Garc%C3%ADa+de+Sol%C3%ADs,+governor+of+la+Florida&source=bl&ots=VzxShPqOUz&sig=sXeI8NA645Qh5Tpo4OocYyIDAxM&hl=es&sa=X&ei=l56-U5fqA6H80QWyJQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Fulgencio%20Garc%C3%ADa%20de%20Sol%C3%ADs%2C%20governor%20of%20la%20Florida&f=false A People's History of Florida, 1513-1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women and Lower Class shaped the sunshine estate]
Moreover, these men (and their bosses) should supply the city with 75 pounds of corn<ref name="People's History of Florida"/><ref name="Zamumo's Gifts"/> and with grain.<ref name="Feast of Souls"/> However, Timucua chiefs refused to provide necessary supplies to the city and this people provoked a revolt against the military government of Saint Augustine in 1656. However, unlike other Amerindian uprisings, this did not kill any Franciscan.<ref name="People's History of Florida"/>
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=== Religious Politic ===
It is also interesting that Rebolledo wanted that Saint Augustine became in an [[Episcopal see]], or at least, become to Florida into an [[abbey]], ie a [[Vicariate Apostolic]], to establish it as a "superior local" and celebrate the [[sacrament of confirmation]] (many people had died in Florida without having been able to do it). To do this he asked the papal sovereignty to the king in 1655, so that this and the [[Consejo de Indias]] (Amerindian Council) sought the opinion of the [[Archbishop]] of [[Santo Domingo]], [[Bishop]] of [[Cuba]], the governor of [[Havana]] and other important figures or institutions.<ref> [http://books.google.es/books?id=71gQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=Diego+de+Rebolledo,+governor+of+Florida&source=bl&ots=aVuZGJdX9q&sig=p0CUU9Hb7Y6YtKrMKya7OzpIDK8&hl=es&sa=X&ei=-SPDU8z5CsGr0QXSk4DwBQ&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Diego%20de%20Rebolledo%2C%20governor%20of%20Florida&f=false The Catholic church]. Written by John Gilmary Shea. Page 165. </ref> However, although Rebolledo obtained the approval of the Counsil to become Saint Augustine in Episcopal see, this city never get the religious power that wanted the governor of Florida, that is, it was never carried into practice. <ref> [http://books.google.es/books?id=yGQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=Colonel+Diego+de+Rebolledo,+governor+of+Florida&source=bl&ots=EINXGrxhej&sig=wBCCreVzghEnDsRO0jLN-mUb6L0&hl=es&sa=X&ei=Ws7DU7SOBsad0AWgyYDgDA&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Colonel%20Diego%20de%20Rebolledo%2C%20governor%20of%20Florida&f=false The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies, Volumen 2]
In February 20, 1659, Rebolledo left the Florida´s government, being succeeded by [[Alonso de Aranguiz y Cortés]].
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