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Francisco Hernández Girón

Francisco Hernández Girón

Spanish conquistador

Francisco Hernández Girón, born in Cáceres, Extremadura, died in Lima on December 7, 1554, was a Spanish conquistador.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Hernández and the second or maternal family name is Girón.
The rebel Francisco Hernández Girón in a drawing of Guamán Poma.

Hernández Girón arrived in Peru in 1535 with, among others, the future governor Blasco Núñez Vela. In the ensuing struggle for power between the Pizarro brothers and the Almagristas in 1537, he supported neither. Almagro was executed in 1538 and Francisco Pizarro, governor of Peru, was assassinated by Almagro's son in 1541. In the struggle following once next governor Cristóbal Vaca de Castro had defeated the Almagristas at Chupas and then becoming imprisoned by Blasco Núñez Vela, appointed royal viceroy, 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 Pedro de la Gasca, with great success. On November 13, 1553,[1] however, he led a rebellion towards the new rule caused by unequal charges proclaimed by Melchor Bravo de Saravia, the new viceroy and second to follow. He was defeated on December 7, 1554, and executed in Lima.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Severo Martinez Pelaez, La patria del criollo: ensayo de interpretación de la realidad colonial guatemalteca (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013)
  2. [2]
    John Michael Francis (2006). Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. ABC-Clio. p. 235. ISBN 1851094210.
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