Francisco de Toledo (1515 - 1582). Count d' Oropesa, killing from the king de Castille Alphonse XI the Juste and from doña Leonor Núñez de Guzmán (which was downward of the family of Santo Domingo de Guzmán), was the fifth of the viceroys of Peru. He occupied this function of 1569 with 1581.

He was born in July 1515 with the palate from Álvarez de Toledo, Counts d' Oropesa with Oropesa (Tolède), Spain, and died in 1582.

During its government in Peru, it installed the court of the Inquisition in 1570. It made raise fortifications on the coast against the pirate attacks of and it crushed the revolt of Túpac Amaru which it made carry out. It centralized the essential aspects of the colonial administration and establishes the bases of what will be the colonial system in Peru. It polished and regulated also the system of the Encomienda and the Mita.

It should not be confused with the cardinal Francisco de Toledo of the Society of Jesus.

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