Miguel Holguín y Figueroa
Miguel Holguín y Figueroa | |
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| Born | 1516 |
| Died | After 1576 |
| Nationality | Castilian |
| Other names | Miguel Holguín de Figueroa |
| Occupation | Conquistador |
| Years active | 1535-1539 |
| Employer | Spanish Crown |
| Known for | Spanish conquest of Venezuela Spanish conquest of the Muisca Quest for El Dorado |
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| Children | 3 daughters: Inés de Cárcamo, Elvira de Holguín, María Maldonado de Holguín 1 son: Diego Holguín de Figueroa Maldonado de Bohorques |
| Mayor of Tunja | |
| In office 1558–1558 | |
| Preceded by | Gregorio Suárez de Deza & Pedro García Ruiz. |
| Succeeded by | Diego Montañez & Pedro Vásquez de Loaiza |
| In office 1564–1564 | |
| Preceded by | Juan López |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Salguero & Hernando de Rojas |
| In office 1572–1572 | |
| Preceded by | Gómez de Cifuentes & Pedro Bravo |
| Succeeded by | Pedro García Ruiz & Diego de Partearroyo |
| In office 1576–1576 | |
| Preceded by | Pedro López Patiño de Haro & Juan Prieto Maldonado |
| Succeeded by | Hernando Mateos & Bachiller Pedro de Valdelomar |
| Notes | |
Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Miguel Holguín de Figueroa, (1516, Cáceres, Kingdom of Spain - after 1576, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador. He took part in the expeditions of conquest of the Chitarero, Motilon, U'wa and Lache peoples led by Nikolaus Federmann.[1] Holguín y Figueroa later settled in Tunja, where he protested the rapacious activities of Hernán Pérez de Quesada, governor of Bogotá.
Miguel Holguín y Figueroa was chronicled by Juan Rodríguez Freyle in El Carnero.
Biography
[edit]Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Holguín de Figueroa, was born in 1516 in Cáceres. He married twice: to Isabel de Cárcamo y Orozco; and Isabel Maldonado de Bohórquez (or Bohórques), widow of Pedro Núñez Cabrera.[2][3][5] With Isabel de Cárcamo y Orozco he had two daughters: Inés de Cárcamo and Elvira de Holguín; with Isabel Maldonado de Bohórquez a son and a daughter: Diego Holguín de Figueroa Maldonado de Bohorques and María Maldonado de Holguín.[2][3] Miguel Holguín y Figueroa was mayor of Tunja for four terms; 1558, 1564, 1572 and 1576.[4] He is named in texts until 1576, while his year of death in Tunja is unknown.[1]
See also
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- List of conquistadors in Colombia
- Spanish conquest of the Muisca
- El Dorado
- Spanish conquest of the Chibchan Nations, Hernán Pérez de Quesada
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Nikolaus Federmann
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c (in Spanish) List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada - Banco de la República
- ^ Jump up to: a b c (in Spanish) Miguel Holguín de Figueroa - Geni
- ^ Jump up to: a b c (in Spanish) Miguel Holguín de Figueroa
- ^ Jump up to: a b Muñoz Cárdenas, 2014, p.16
- ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.153
Bibliography
[edit]- Muñoz Cárdenas, Felipe Andrés (2014), La Administración de Tunja a través del siglo XX - The Administration of Tunja through the twentieth century (PDF), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, pp. 1–163, retrieved 2017-03-06
- Rodríguez Freyle, Juan; Achury Valenzuela, Darío (1979) [1859 (1638)], El Carnero - Conquista i descubrimiento del nuevo reino de Granada de las Indias Occidentales del mar oceano, i fundacion de la ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogota (PDF) (in Spanish), Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch, pp. 1–598, retrieved 2017-03-06
Further reading
[edit]- Acosta, Joaquín (1848), Compendio histórico del descubrimiento y colonización de la Nueva Granada en el siglo décimo sexto - Historical overview of discovery and colonization of New Granada in the sixteenth century (PDF), Paris: Beau Press, pp. 1–460, OCLC 23030434, retrieved 2017-03-01
- De Castellanos, Juan (1857) [1589], Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (in Spanish), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, pp. 1–567, ISBN 978-958-683-677-7, retrieved 2017-03-01
- Fernández de Piedrahita, Lucas (1676), "VI", Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada (PDF) (in Spanish), retrieved 2017-03-01
- Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo (1576), Memoria de los descubridores, que entraron conmigo a descubrir y conquistar el Reino de Granada (in Spanish), retrieved 2017-03-01
- De Plaza, José Antonio (1810), Memorias para la historia de la Nueva Granada desde su descubrimiento el 20 de julio de 1810, Imprenta del Neo-Granadino, pp. 1–464, retrieved 2017-03-01
- Simón, Pedro (1892) [1626], Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias occidentales (1882-92) vol.1-5 (in Spanish), retrieved 2017-03-01
- "Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada", Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico, 16 (3), Banco de la República: 81–97, 1979 [1889 (1539)], retrieved 2017-03-01
