Francisco Hernández Girón, born in Cáceres,

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, died in

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on December 7, 1554, was a Spanish

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. Hernández Girón arrived in

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in 1535 with, among others, the future governor

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. In the ensuing struggle for power between the

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and the Almagristas in 1537, he supported neither. Almagro was executed in 1538 and

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, governor of Peru, was assassinated by Almagro's son in 1541. In the struggle following once next governor

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had defeated the Almagristas at Chupas and then becoming imprisoned by Blasco Núñez Vela, appointed royal

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, Hernández Girón became a supporter of the latter. He fought at the battles of Añaquito and managed to escape death in an emerging defeat. At Jaquijahuana, he again took the side of the royal forces under

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, with great success. On November 13, 1553,Severo Martinez Pelaez, ''La patria del criollo: ensayo de interpretación de la realidad colonial guatemalteca'' (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013) however, he led a rebellion towards the new rule caused by unequal charges proclaimed by

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, the new viceroy and second to follow. He was defeated on December 7, 1554, and executed in Lima.

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