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Gutierre de Miranda was the captain and governor of Castillo de San Marcos (1577–80) and governor of Florida (1589–1592). He was brother of former Governor Hernando de Miranda and brother-in-law of next governors of Florida Pedro Menéndez de Márquez.〔 == Biography == In 5 September 1576, (or 1589, according to the sources〔Cahoon, Ben. (U.S. States F-K ).〕) Miranda was appointed governor of Florida. Under his tenure, Florida's economy was very low and the population of the province was sustained with little food. In addition, there were native revolts against the settlers.〔(A History of Colonial South Carolina ), by Anne Blythe Meriwether Accessed at 18:00 of September 9, 2010.〕 He left the governor's office in 1577, being replaced by Pedro Menéndez de Márquez. Gutierre de Miranda has a sizable estate in the area that included well-bred horses.〔(Timeline of Horse ), by Beverley Davis. Accessed September 9, 2010 at 16:45.〕 In 1577, Gutierre de Miranda was appointed Governor and Captain of Castillo de San Marcos (a new fortress built in St. Augustine, Florida) by Menéndez de Márquez and king Philip II. From that moment, Gutierre de Miranda settled in Santa Elena. Menéndez de Marquez soon decided to give certain politic rights to Miranda, among which were to convert him in the interim governor of Santa Elena, but this election could not take place then. In 1578, Captain Tomás Bernaldo de Quirós was appointed acting governor of that city. Between 1577 and 1580, the Governor of San Marcos, Miranda, and acting governor of Santa Elena, Captain Bernaldo de Quirós, along to governor of Florida, Menendez de Marquez, attacked and subjected to several indigenous groups who had participated in the destruction of the first city of Santa Elena. In November 1580, Gutierre de Miranda took the post of commander in Santa Elena and he built a large ranch near the city. According anthropologist Chester B. DePratter, on October 14, 1586, Gutierre de Miranda, after learning the news (through a letter from Menéndez Márquez〔(Witness to Empire and the Tightening of Military Control: Santa Elena's Second Spanish Occupation, 1577-1587 ). Retrieved in July 20, 2014, to 01:47pm.〕) that Francis Drake might have intended to attack Florida, informed to king about the Santa Elena state and he said he planned to go help Santa Elena, as soon as the wind would allow sailing. So, He began work at the Fort Castillo de San Marcos〔〔 and enhanced it with curtain walls, bunkers and new weapons platforms.〔 However, according Historians John E. Findling and Frank W. Thackeray, was actually after an effective attack and burning of Saint Augustine by Captain Francis Drake in 1586, where Gutierre Miranda began building of Castillo de San Marcos, in order to try to protect the city against future attacks. 〔Findling, John E.; Thackeray, Frank W. (editors; 2000). (Events that Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century ). Pages 49 and 50.〕 He start to build it in April 6, 1586. For other hand, Pedro Menéndez Marqués and Gutierre de Miranda, reduced the power of the citizens of Florida. He Investigated reports of corsairs off coasts of Florida. In addition, he built, maintained and defended structures and Florida cities. Based on its range of governor, Miranda asked King a grant of land to build, a farm and raise cattle. So, Miranda obtained two cattles and several larger lots of lands for that the cattle could graze on it. In addition, the king also gave permission to Miranda to have two African slaves in Florida, being he free of charges. Gutierre de Miranda was in Spain when the decrees were issued. On July 13, 1579, King Philip ordered Miranda to recruit fifty soldiers in the province to protect Florida's strengths. However, when in September 1578 the king sent to Florida hundred soldiers so that they reinforce the province, nearly fifty of them drowned when the Santiago el Menor galleon, which carrying them, sank near the port of San Augustine. In late June 1579, Pedro Menéndez Marqués sent to Rodrigo del Junco for he request fifty more soldiers to replace the soldiers who had died in the Santiago el Menor or seemed to have proven to be "useless", as well as other soldiers of the boat. Some of the soldiers who enlisted in the army of Miranda wanted to bring their wives with them, and some women already married in Florida, would also travel with Miranda. King Philip allowed these women to move to Florida on February 9, 1580. Also that day Gutierre de Miranda also gave permission to take an African slave from Santa Elena to the Fort, to serve as a drummer there.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gutierre de Miranda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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