encomendero

American  

[en-koh-muhn-der-oh] / ɛnˌkoʊ mənˈdɛr oʊ /

noun

encomenderos plural

1. History/Historical. a Spanish soldier or colonist granted an encomienda.

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Example Sentences

The Spanish government gave each grantee, known as an encomendero, the right to demand labor from Indigenous people living in a specific area.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The population is poor, and numbers only about one hundred men, who belong to one encomendero.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Once they were allotted to one encomendero, but now they belong to the royal crown.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Many of our fathers, as well as his encomendero, therefore besought him with great earnestness to be baptized, but all in vain.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

In the attempt to hold Macao, Corcuera sent over the encomendero of Pasig, Don Juan Claudio.

From A History of the Philippines by Barrows, David P.