Francisco Hernández Girón, Spanish encomendero
Formerly, it was called encomendero to which Merced Real had Indians entrusted in any of the Spanish colonies of America and the Philippines.
The encomendero was the head of part of a colonial institution called encomienda. The encomendero had numerous obligations, of which the principal ones were to teach Christian doctrine and to defend its commended ones (like the natives entrusted in any of the Spanish colonies of America and the Philippines), as well as to defend and to help multiply their goods. p>
The encomienda was a privilege scarcely granted to only a few people, who were granted them by the economic question. There are numerous discussions as to whether or not the Commendation grant automatically granted the status of nobility or nobility to a person - few deny it - but what is clear is that in order to receive it one had to prove the cleanliness of blood and honor of the lineage, therefore, only the people with condition of hidalgos could receive it. Traditionally, the encomendero was a person with much money and with power in the colonial society, since the quantities of earth given for the encomiendas used to be very great and of great productivity. The Indians entrusted had the work of working the land and producing. The encomenderos also paid taxes to the crown in proportion to what they received from the work of the natives. The taxes paid by the encomenderos were known as "the delay" and were distributed as follows: a fifth of the total for the king, a fee for the priest or encomenderos doctrinero.
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