Viceroy

:For the butterfly, see viceroy butterfly.

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:For the cigarettes, see Viceroy cigarettes.

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A viceroy is somebody who governs a country or province as a substitute for the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and French roi, meaning king. A vicereine is a woman in a viceregal position, or a viceroy's wife.

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For example, the queens of early modern Spain employed numerous viceroys to rule over various parts of their lands. In Europe, until the 18th century there were Viceroys of Aragon, Valencia, Catalonia, Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, and Portugal (1580-1640), while in the New World, there were viceroys in Mexico City to govern New Spain and in Lima, Peru to govern western South America. The New World territories under the control of viceroys were known as Viceroyalties. Due to the growing size of Spain's American colonies, new viceroyalties were created for New Granada (1717) and R?o de la Plata (1776).

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Spain: The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de Espa?a or Espa?a; Catalan: Regne d'Espanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Asturian: Reinu d'Espa?a or Espa?a) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the nor...

Aragon: This article is about the geographical region. For the poet, see Louis Aragon. For the Olympic medallist, see Aragon (horse)....

Valencia: :This article is about the city in Spain. For other uses of the name, see Valencia (disambiguation)....

Viceroy related Images and Photos (experimental)

Mehemet Ali Viceroy of Egypt

Count Alois Thomas Raimund Von Harrach Viceroy of Naples (1669-1742)

Auguste Amalie Beauharnais Wife of Eugene Viceroy of Italy: with Her Daughter Josephine

Portrait of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais Viceroy of Italy and Duke of Leuchtenberg 1810