Gonzalo Macías | |
|---|---|
| Born |
c.1509 |
| Died | unknown |
| Nationality | Castilian |
| Occupation | Conquistador |
| Years active | 1536-? |
| Employer | Spanish Crown |
| Known for |
Spanish conquest of the Muisca Quest for El Dorado |
| Spouse | Juana Moreno de Figueroa |
| Children | Leonor and Juana Macías de Figueroa |
| Notes | |
Gonzalo Macías ( c. 1509, Calamonte, Extremadura, Castile – ?, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the expedition from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation that was led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada from 1536 to 1538. He settled in Tunja, formerly called Hunza, as seat of the zaque. [1]
Personal life
Gonzalo Macías was born around 1509 in the Extremaduran town of Calamonte. He married Juana Moreno de Figueroa, who was also from Calamonte, and the couple had two daughters, Leonor and Juana Macías de Figueroa. [2] [3] His daughter Leonor Macías de Figueroa married conquistador Pedro Luis de Sanabria, who was active in the conquest of Venezuela under Jerónimo de Ortal, and also served under Sebastián de Belalcázar in Ecuador and southern Colombia. [4] Juana married Francisco Salguero with whom she founded the Santa Clara Monastery in Tunja in 1573, the first clarissan monastery for nuns in the Americas. [5]
See also
- List of conquistadors in Colombia
- Spanish conquest of the Muisca
- El Dorado
- Tunja, Hernán Pérez de Quesada
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo Suárez Rendón
References
- ^ a b (in Spanish) List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine - Banco de la República
- ^ a b Gonzalo Macías - Geni
- ^ Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.173
- ^ Pedro Luis de Sanabria - Geni
- ^ Juana Macías de Figueroa - Geni
Bibliography
- Rodríguez Freyle, Juan, and Darío Achury Valenzuela. 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, 1-598. Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch. Accessed 2016-11-21.
Further reading
- 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, 1-460. Beau Press. Accessed 2016-07-08.
