'''Juan de Posada''', was a governor of Florida<ref name="Bushnell2003">{{cite book|author=Amy Turner Bushnell|title=Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eIMcv-E7C0C&pg=PA212|year=1994|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-1712-0|page=212}}</ref> and Santa Elena from 1588 to 1589.
== Biography == Juan de Posada was born in Llanes, in Asturias,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/1341262|title = Menéndez Márquez, Juan}}</ref> and was the son of Pedro de Tarapiella and Teresa Díaz de Posada.<ref name="kislakfoundation">[http://www.kislakfoundation.org/prize/199902.html Witness to Empire and the Tightening of Military Control: Santa Elena's Second Spanish Occupation, 1577-1587] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233316/http://www.kislakfoundation.org/prize/199902.html |date=2016-03-03 }}. Retrieved in July 20, 2014, to 01:47pm.</ref><ref name=" Archaeological Analysis from Late First Spanish Period St Augustine">Jo Chambless, Elizabeth (2005). [http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2116&context=etd Archaeological Analysis from Late First Spanish Period St Augustine]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Florida State University. Page 19.</ref>
Juan de Posada began serving in the Spanish military in 1570, and by October 1, 1578 he was living in ''La Florida'', where he was the ''tenedor de bastimentos'' (person in charge of the distribution of food). On August 19, 1588, Governor Menéndez Márquez named him captain of the fort of Santa Elena,<ref name="Worth2007">{{cite book|author=John E. Worth|title=The Struggle for the Georgia Coast|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5gWyZbNRaoC&pg=PA57|date=4 February 2007|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5411-4|page=57}}</ref> and the same year he was appointed as the governor of Florida, an office he retained until 1589.<ref name="Bushnell2003" /> De Posada was named treasurer of Saint Augustine on 17 April 1592, but drowned the same year while sailing to Florida.<ref name="HendersonMormino1991">{{cite book|author1=Ann L. Henderson|author2=Gary Ross Mormino|title=Los caminos españoles en La Florida|trans-title=Spanish Pathways in Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVrQgITtBVMC&pg=PA118|year=1991|publisher=Pineapple Press Inc|language=es, en|isbn=978-1-56164-004-1|page=118}}</ref>
== Personal life == Posada married Catalina Menéndez Márquez, a sister of Pedro Menéndez Márquez.<ref name="kislakfoundation"/><ref name=" Archaeological Analysis from Late First Spanish Period St Augustine"/> One of their daughters, María Menéndez y Posada, married future governor of Florida Juan Menendez Marquez<ref name="HendersonMormino1991" /><ref name=" Archaeological Analysis from Late First Spanish Period St Augustine"/> when she was only 12 years old. The marriage was arranged by the uncle of both, Pedro Menéndez Márquez. Maria Menéndez y Posada inherited the title of royal treasurer of Saint Augustine, which had originally been carried by his father.<ref name="HendersonMormino1991" />
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