Honorific-Prefix: | Don |
Cristóbal de la Cerda | |
Order: | Royal Governor of Chile |
Term Start: | December 1620 |
Term End: | November 1621 |
Primeminister: | Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda |
Predecessor: | Lope de Ulloa |
Successor: | Pedro Osores |
Birth Date: | 1585 |
Birth Place: | 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.