Nationality Castilian Years active 1535-1539 Employer Monarchy of Spain | Occupation Conquistador Died Tunja, Colombia | |
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Born 1516 Cáceres, Castile Other names Miguel Holguín de Figueroa Known for Spanish conquest of Venezuela
Spanish conquest of the Muisca
Quest for El Dorado Spouse(s) Isabel de Cárcamo y Orozco
Isabel Maldonado de Bohórquez Other name Miguel Holguín de Figueroa | ||
Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Miguel Holguín de Figueroa, (1516, Cáceres, Castile - after 1576, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador. He took part in the expeditions of the conquest of the Chitarero, Motilon, U'wa and Lache led by Nikolaus Federmann. Holguín y Figueroa later settled in Tunja, where he protested the bad deeds of Hernán Pérez de Quesada who governed Bogotá after the foundation and initial rule by his elder brother Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
Juan Rodríguez Freyle wrote about Miguel Holguín de Figueroa in his work El Carnero.
Biography
Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Holguín de Figueroa, was born in 1516 in Cáceres. He married twice, with Isabel de Cárcamo y Orozco and Isabel Maldonado de Bohórquez (or Bohórques), widow of Pedro Núñez Cabrera. With Isabel de Cárcamo y Orozco he had two daughters; Inés de Cárcamo and Elvira de Holguín and 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 in four terms; 1558, 1564, 1572 and 1576. He is named in texts until 1576, while his year of death in Tunja is unknown.