Diego de Vega

Diego de Vega (1570-1630s) was a Portuguese merchant and financier.[1] He was the first banker in Buenos Aires during the viceroyalty of Peru.[2]

Diego de Vega
Personal details
Born1570
Lisboa, Kingdom of Portugal
Died1630s
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of Peru
NationalityPortuguese
Spouse(s)Blanca de Vasconcelos
OccupationTrader
Banker
Professionfinancier

Biography

Born 1570 in Lisboa (Portugal), belonging to a family of Jews converted to Catholicism.[3] He arrived at the port of Buenos Aires in 1601 and was married on July 8, 1605 to Blanca de Vasconcelos, daughter of Mendo de Vasconcelos and Juana de Atouguia.[4]

Diego de Vega had contacts in various regions outside the Viceroyalty of Peru, Brazil and Lisboa are some of the places where he operated his business of smuggling.[5] He came to have great wealth, becoming the richest man in Buenos Aires in the early years of the 17th century, and also was listed as one of the strongest traders in the world in his time.[6]

References
  1. Fronteras de la historia, Volume 10. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia. 2005.
  2. Un historiador de garra--Raúl A. Molina. Vicente Osvaldo Cutolo. 1974.
  3. Historia argentina, Volume 1. José María Rosa. 1974.
  4. Todo es historia, Issues 49-54. Todo es Historia, 1971. 1971.
  5. Contrabando y sociedad en el Río de la Plata colonial. by Macarena Perusset. 2006. ISBN 9789870219965.
  6. Buenos Ayres, 1619. José Rafael Ramos Vértiz. 1982.
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