the false claim that they had not done enough to suppress the Indian rebellions and pacify the Araucanía. In Madrid he entered into the Royal Guard. He was also representative to the king in Milan. Viceroy of Peru In 1590 Hurtado returned to America, now as viceroy of Peru, a position he held until the middle of the following decade. It was a great help to the Spanish in Chile to have someone with his first-hand knowledge of that region in the position of viceroy. Hurtado had frequent disagreements with Turibius de Mongrovejo, Archbishop of Lima, whenever civil and ecclesiastical jurisdiction conflicted. The seminary school established by Mogrovejo was not established without a fight over whether to put the bishop's coat of arms on top of the entrance, or the royal coat of arms in the same place, as well as during the excommunication of Juan Ortiz de Zárate, mayor of Lima, over the forced arrest of a criminal who had taken refuge at a church. At the end of his term, Hurtado left Lima to return to Spain, where he died in 1609. Legacy Hurtado's legacy includes his attempt to "crack down on the oppression of the indigenous population at the hands of the Spanish colonizers." Five years after his death, in 1614, his "Ordinances Issued by the Marquis of Cañete, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Peru, as a Remedy for the Excesses that the Judges of the Natives Commit When They Deal and Bargain with the Indians and the Damages as well as the Grievances that the Indians Endure" were published posthumously in Lima, Peru. The national sport of Chile, the Chilean rodeo, is derived from Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza's order to brand all the cattle of Chile. The annual branding event held at Santiago's Plaza de Armas eventually became the modern day Chilean rodeo. Ancestry Additional information Notes Sources External links Royal Governors of Chile Viceroys of Peru Spanish generals Spanish explorers 1535 births 1609 deaths Garcia 05 Garcia 05 Knights of Santiago People from Cuenca, Spain People of the Arauco War People of the Italian Wars 1550s in the Captaincy General of Chile 1560s in the Captaincy General of Chile 1590s in the Viceroyalty of Peru 16th-century Spanish nobility 17th-century Spanish nobility