Unlike other Spanish colonial administrators, Gutiérrez y Ulloa held no military background.
[1] His parents were Nicolás Gutiérrez y Vitoria and Francisca de Ulloa y Sánchez Morales.
"[6][7] The independence movement was eventually crushed by Spanish forces under José Alejandro de Aycinena later in the year who became Colonial Intendant on 3 December 1811.
[1] On 18 July 1817, he was appointed as a finance minister of Mexico City by royal decree, but later he returned to Guadalajara on 7 November 1820.
[1][9] Gutiérrez y Ulloa supported the ascension of Agustín de Iturbide as Emperor of the First Mexican Empire in 1822.