Francisco García Romero | |
Order: | Alcalde of |
Office: | Buenos Aires |
Term Start: | 1617 |
Term End: | 1618 |
Successor: | Antón Higueras de Santana |
Birth Date: | 1559 |
Birth Place: | Cáceres, Spain |
Death Date: | c. 1630 |
Death Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Army officer |
Branch: | Spanish Army |
Rank: | Captain |
Francisco García Romero (1559 - 1630s) was a Spanish military man and conquistador.
Francisco was born in 1559 in Cáceres, Spain,[1] son of Francisco García Moroto and Inés Martin. He arrived in the Rio de la Plata in 1603,[2] occupying distinguished political positions in the city, where served as alcalde, fiel ejecutor, attorney general and deputy of the Cabildo of Buenos Aires.[3]
Francisco García Romero married in Asunción to Mariana González de Santa Cruz, daughter of Bartolomé González de Villaverde and María Santa Cruz, belonging to a distinguished family of conquerors.[4]