Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Miguel Holguín de Figueroa, (1516,
Cáceres,
Kingdom of Spain
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- after 1576,
Tunja
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,
New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish
conquistador. He took part in the expeditions of conquest of the
Chitarero,
Motilon,
U'wa and
Lache
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peoples led by
Nikolaus Federmann
Nikolaus Federmann ( es, link=no, Nicolás Féderman, ) (c. 1505, Ulm – February 1542, Valladolid) was a German adventurer and conquistador in what is modern-day Venezuela and Colombia. He is a significant figure in the history of Klein-Vened ...
.
[List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada]
- Banco de la República
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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
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.
[Miguel Holguín de Figueroa]
- Geni[Miguel Holguín de Figueroa]
/ref>[Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.153] 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.[ Miguel Holguín y Figueroa was mayor of Tunja for four terms; 1558, 1564, 1572 and 1576.][Muñoz Cárdenas, 2014, p.16] He is named in texts until 1576, while his year of death in Tunja is unknown.[
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See also
*List of conquistadors in Colombia
This is a list of conquistadors who were active in the conquest of terrains that presently belong to Colombia. The nationalities listed refer to the state the conquistador was born into; Granada and Castile are currently part of Spain, but were s ...
* Spanish conquest of the Muisca
*'' El Dorado''
*Spanish conquest of the Chibchan Nations
Spanish conquest of the Chibchan Nations refers to the conquest by the Spanish monarchy of the Chibcha language-speaking nations, mainly the Muisca and Tairona that inhabited present-day Colombia, beginning the Spanish colonization of the Amer ...
, Hernán Pérez de Quesada
* Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Nikolaus Federmann
Nikolaus Federmann ( es, link=no, Nicolás Féderman, ) (c. 1505, Ulm – February 1542, Valladolid) was a German adventurer and conquistador in what is modern-day Venezuela and Colombia. He is a significant figure in the history of Klein-Vened ...
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1516 births
Year of death unknown
16th-century Spanish people
16th-century explorers
Spanish conquistadors
Extremaduran conquistadors
Spanish conquest of the Muisca
Tunja