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{{Short description|Spanish Conquistador known for helping take over the last significant Mayan stronghold}}
{{family name hatnote|de Ursúa (''or'' de Urzúa)|Arizmendi|lang=Spanish}}
'''Martín de Ursúa (or Urzúa) y Arizmendi''' ({{IPA|es|maɾˈtin de wɾˈsu.a j aɾiθˈmendi}}; February 22, 1653 &ndash; February 4, 1715), Count of [[Estella-Lizarra|Lizárraga]] and of [[Castillo-Nuevo|Castillo]],<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 113–114.</ref> was a Spanish [[conquistador]] in [[Central America]] during the late colonial period of [[New Spain]]. Born in [[Olóriz]], [[Navarre]],<ref name="Jones1998p113">Jones 1998, p. 113.</ref> he is noted for leading the [[Spanish conquest of Petén|1696–97 expeditionary force]] which resulted in the fall of the last significant independent [[Maya civilization|Maya]] stronghold, [[Nojpetén]], located on an island in [[Lake Petén Itzá]] in the northern [[Petén Basin]] region of present-day [[Guatemala]]. He served as [[List of governors in the Viceroyalty of New Spain|governor of the Yucatán]] until 1708, when he was named [[Governor-General of the Philippines]].<ref name="Jones1998p113"/> Around the time that he was named to that post, he was made a knight of the [[Order of Santiago]].<ref name="Jones1998p113"/> He died in [[Manila]] in 1715.<ref name="Jones1998p114">Jones 1998, p. 114.</ref>

Ursúa arrived to Mexico around 1680 and initially served as a lawyer in Mexico City until 1692. He used this period to cement relationships with colonial officials in Yucatán.<ref name="Jones1998p118">Jones 1998, p. 118.</ref> In 1692 he was appointed to be governor of Yucatán, with his term to begin in 1698.<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 118–119.</ref> By 1694 he had been appointed as ''[[alcalde|alcalde ordinario]]'' (a Spanish colonial official) of Mexico City.<ref name="Jones1998p118"/> Ursúa took office in Yucatán four years earlier than planned, becoming acting governor on 17 December 1694.<ref>Jones 1998, p. 119.</ref>

==Family tree==
Martín de Ursúa was from a line of distinguished and successful noblemen that was extremely well connected politically and that intermarried with other influential noble families to form a kinship network that was spread across Europe and the Americas:<ref>Jones 1998, pp. 113–115.</ref>

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{{Tree chart | | | Grandfather |~|y|~| Grandmother | |greatuncle | Grandmother = ? |Grandfather=General Pedro de Ursúa y Arizmendi|greatuncle=[[Diego de Egües y Beaumont|Diego Egües y Beaumont]]<br>Governor and Captain General of [[New Kingdom of Granada|Nueva Granada]]}}
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{{Tree chart | | | | | | Father |y| Mother | |Mother=? |Father=Pedro de Ursúa y Arizmendi de Egües<br>Count of Jerena}}
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{{Tree chart | | | |olderbrother| |MartindeUrsua |~|wife |MartindeUrsua='''Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi''' |olderbrother=Pedro de Ursúa,<br>Abbot of [[Pamplona]]|wife=Juana Bolio y Ojeda (''criolla'')}}
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==See also==
*[[Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa]]
*[[History of the Philippines (1521–1898)]]
*[[Spanish conquest of Guatemala]]
*[[Spanish conquest of Yucatán]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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*{{cite book |author=Jones, Grant D.   |year=1998 |title=The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PeOWl54Mt7UC&pg=RA2-PT82 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford, California, USA |isbn=9780804735223}}
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  before= [[Domingo Zabálburu de Echevarri]]|
  title= [[Governor General of the Philippines]]|
  years= 1708–1715|
  after= [[José Torralba]]|}}
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[[Category:Spanish conquistadors]]
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[[Category:Spanish colonization of the Americas]]
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[[Category:People from Tafalla (comarca)]]
[[Category:People from the Kingdom of Navarre]]
[[Category:People from the Captaincy General of Yucatán]]


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