Manuel de Cendoya | |
|---|---|
| 24th Governor of La Florida | |
| In office July 6, 1671 – July 8, 1673 | |
| Preceded by | Francisco de la Guerra y de la Vega |
| Succeeded by | Nicolás Ponce de León II |
| Personal details | |
| Born | early 17th century |
| Died | July 8, 1673 Saint Augustine, Florida |
| Profession | Soldier and administrator (governor of Florida) |
Manuel de Cendoya (? – 1673) was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of Spanish Florida (La Florida) from mid-1671 to mid-1673. His administration is remembered primarily for initiating construction of the Castillo de San Marcos, a masonry fortress whose building had first been ordered by Cendoya's predecessor, Governor Francisco de la Guerra y de la Vega, after the destructive raid of the English privateer Robert Searle in 1668.[1][2] Work proceeded in 1671,[3] although the first stone was not laid until 1672.[4]
- ^ Lawrence Sanders Rowland; Alexander Moore; George C. Rogers (1996). The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-57003-090-1.
- ^ Amy Turner Bushnell (1987). David Hurst Thomas (ed.). Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History: The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, No. 74. Vol. 68. University of Georgia Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8203-1712-0.
- ^ Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America. Vol. 1. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 1569. ISBN 978-0-8018-5986-1.
- ^ Albert C. Manucy. The Building of Castillo de San Marcos: National Park Service Interpretive Series, History No. 1. United States Government Printing Office Washington. p. 18. GGKEY:R1D08K7CWUJ.
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