The Silver King: The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial Mexico

by Edith Boorstein Couturier

Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, was born in Spain in 1710. When he was twenty-one, his parents sent him to live with an uncle in New Spain and to assume control of the family's businesses. He married the daughter of a wealthy noble family in Mexico City and continued to build on the combined fortunes as a merchant and a mining entrepreneur. From the mid-eighteenth century until his death in 1781, Regla was admired for his philanthropy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826328741
• ISBN13: 9780826328748
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 9.0"