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encomenderos

  • plural
    of encomendero.
    encomendero
    noun
    a Spanish soldier or colonist granted an encomienda.

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While encomiendas did not technically include the ownership of any land, encomenderos often took possession of lands where the people under their control lived.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The side toward Çubu has three encomenderos; and that toward Panay and the town of Arevalo has eight.

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 Emma Helen Blair

The encomenderos were often extortionate and cruel, and absolutely heedless of the restrictions and obligations imposed upon them by the Laws of the Indies.

From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The latter were called encomenderos, and to them were apportioned the native population, in tutelage and servitude.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

It belongs to one of the encomenderos of Çubu, and is within the jurisdiction of that city.

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 Emma Helen Blair

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