Martín de Ursúa
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; February 22, 1653 – February 4, 1715), Count of Lizárraga and of Castillo,<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 113–114.</ref> was a Spanish conquistador in Central America during the late colonial period of New Spain. Born in Olóriz, Navarre,<ref name="Jones1998p113">Jones 1998, p. 113.</ref> he is noted for leading the 1696–97 expeditionary force which resulted in the fall of the last significant independent Maya stronghold, Nojpetén, located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in the northern Petén Basin region of present-day Guatemala. He served as governor of the Yucatán until 1708, when he was named Governor-General of the Philippines.<ref name="Jones1998p113"/> Around the time that he was named to that post, he was made a knight of the Order of Santiago.<ref name="Jones1998p113"/> He died in Manila in 1715.<ref name="Jones1998p114">Jones 1998, p. 114.</ref>
Ursúa arrived to Mexico around 1680 and initially served as a lawyer in Mexico City until 1692. He used this period to cement relationships with colonial officials in Yucatán.<ref name="Jones1998p118">Jones 1998, p. 118.</ref> In 1692 he was appointed to be governor of Yucatán, with his term to begin in 1698.<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 118–119.</ref> By 1694 he had been appointed as alcalde ordinario (a Spanish colonial official) of Mexico City.<ref name="Jones1998p118"/> Ursúa took office in Yucatán four years earlier than planned, becoming acting governor on 17 December 1694.<ref>Jones 1998, p. 119.</ref>
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Martín de Ursúa was from a line of distinguished and successful noblemen that was extremely well connected politically and that intermarried with other influential noble families to form a kinship network that was spread across Europe and the Americas:<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 113–115.</ref>
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See also
- Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa
- History of the Philippines (1521–1898)
- Spanish conquest of Guatemala
- Spanish conquest of Yucatán
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- Spanish conquistadors
- 17th-century Spanish lawyers
- 1653 births
- 1715 deaths
- Captains general of the Philippines
- Governors of Yucatán (state)
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
- Spanish colonial officials
- People from Tafalla (comarca)
- People from the Kingdom of Navarre
- People from the Captaincy General of Yucatán