| Miguel Holguín y Figueroa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1516 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Cáceres, Kingdom of Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Date: | After 1576 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Castilian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Names: | Miguel Holguín de Figueroa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Conquistador | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years Active: | 1535-1539 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Employer: | Spanish Crown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Known For: | Spanish conquest of Venezuela Spanish conquest of the Muisca Quest for El Dorado | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children: | 3 daughters: Inés de Cárcamo, Elvira de Holguín, María Maldonado de Holguín 1 son: Diego Holguín de Figueroa Maldonado de Bohorques | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Miguel Holguín de Figueroa, (1516, Cáceres, Kingdom of Spain - after 1576, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador. He took part in the expeditions of conquest of the Chitarero, Motilon, U'wa and Lache peoples led by Nikolaus Federmann.[1] 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.
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.[2] [3] 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.[2] Miguel Holguín y Figueroa was mayor of Tunja for four terms; 1558, 1564, 1572 and 1576.[4] He is named in texts until 1576, while his year of death in Tunja is unknown.[1]