Viceroyalties

area colonized by France in North America

A viceroyalty was an entity headed by a viceroy. It dates back to the administration of the Spanish-held territories in Southern Italy from the early fifteenth century onwards, most notably by the year 1428, the term “vice rex” was used to refer the Viceroy of Sicily in the official documents of the Crown of Aragon, which in the sixteenth century it passed through Catalan as “visrei” to later pass to Spanish as “visorey”.