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Ruy de Sosa

Spanish colonial governor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ16627069 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ruy de Sosa y León, (Portuguese: Rui de Sousa e Leão; 1569–1633) was a Portuguese nobleman, and conqueror and government official of the city of Córdoba in what is now Argentina during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Biography

Born in 1569 in Lisbon, Portugal, he was the son of Garcia Sousa and Dona Isabel Nunes. He married in the city of Córdoba to Gregoria Peralta, daughter of Blas de Peralta.

Ruy de Sosa arrived in Córdoba from Peru sent as conqueror and councilman, was appointed chief alguacil, attorney, majordomo and city treasurer.

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“Ruy de Sosa” enters the record as spanish colonial governor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sosa, Spanish and colonial can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1569, 1633—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1569-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sosa, Spanish and colonial.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ruy de Sosa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.