Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Shi ne ɗan fari na ɗan Galician Garcia Sarmiento de Soutomaior <unk>Lord of Salvaterra de Miño, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin "corregidor" na Toro kuma gwamnan Canary Islands <unk> da Juana de Acuña, magajiyar gidan masarautar Acuña. An haife shi ne a Astorga, kusa da Galicia, ya gaji manyan kaddarorin duka a Galicia da Old Castile. Ya taka rawa sosai a lokacin Yaƙin Anglo-Spanish wajen kawar da wani harin Ingilishi wanda Sir Francis Drake ya jagoranta a Baiona da Vigo a 1585. Sun sake haɗuwa da karfi shekaru hudu bayan haka a Vigo, bayan "Ingilishi Armada
" an ƙi shi a cikin A Coruña da Lisbon; a can Drake an ƙi shi amma ba kafin fashewar bam da sack na garin ba. Sakamakon wadannan nasarorin na soja, Sarki Philip II na Spain ya nada shi gwamnan Baiona, kuma mai kula da kagara ta Monte Real, don haka ya kare iyakar kudu da gabar tekun Galicia. Daga baya, a cikin 1596, an nada shi "corregidor" na farko na Toro, kuma daga baya na Valladolid, sannan gidan zama da babban birnin Sarki Philip III. Daga wannan lokacin an tilasta masa sulhunta matsayin biyu, a matsayin mai kotu da corregidor a babban birnin, kuma a matsayin soja da Kyaftin a Galicia: a cikin 1603 an tura shi daga kotu zuwa Vigo don kula da rarraba dukiyar da aka kawo daga Amurka ta hanyar galleons biyu waɗanda aka tura don neman mafaka a can; a kan dawowarsa an nada shi memba na kwamitin kudi. A shekara ta 1609 ya kori wani harin jirgin ruwa na Dutch a gabar tekun Galicia.