Ortún Velázquez de Velasco
{{Short description|Spanish conquistador}}
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| birth_date ={{circa|1500}}
| birth_place = Cuéllar, Castile
| death_date = 4 November 1584
| death_place = Pamplona, Pamplona Province, New Kingdom of Granada
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| occupation = Conquistador
| years_active = 1536–1584
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| employer = Spanish Crown
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| known_for = Spanish conquest of the Muisca
Quest for El Dorado
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| title = Mayor of Tunja
| term_start = 1544
| term_end = 1544
| predecessor1 = García Arias Maldonado &
Hernando de Beteta
| successor1 = Hernando de Escalante &
Sebastián de Almarcha
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| spouse = Luisa Montalvo de Lugo
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| children = 1 son: Juan Velásquez de Velasco y Montalvo
2 daughters: María Velázquez de Velasco y Montalvo, Magdalena Velázquez de Velazco
| mother = María Enríquez de Acuña
| father = Gutierre Velázquez de Cuéllar
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Ortún Velázquez de Velasco ({{circa|1500}}, Cuéllar, Castile – 4{{nbsp}}November 1584, Pamplona, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador. He is known as the co-founder and first governor of Pamplona in the Norte de Santander department of Colombia, which borders Venezuela.{{in lang|es}} [http://www.monografias.com/trabajos82/conquistadores-ciudades-coro-y-pamplona/conquistadores-ciudades-coro-y-pamplona2.shtml Conquistadores desde las ciudades Coro y Pamplona]
American expeditions
Velázquez de Velasco took part in the expedition of the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada from 1536 to 1539. He then settled in Tunja under Gonzalo Suárez Rendón. He married there, was mayor of the city in 1544,Muñoz Cárdenas, 2014, p.15 and left in 1548. From 1549 he participated in the conquest of the Chitarero people and the foundation of Pamplona under Pedro de Ursúa.{{in lang|es}} [http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/historia/gennrgun/gennrgun9x.htm List of conquistadors led by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada] – Banco de la RepúblicaRodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.xii
Personal life
Ortún Velázquez de Velasco was born around 1500 in the town of Cuéllar, Segovia Province, Castile and León; the only son of Gutierre Velázquez de Cuéllar, lord of Villavaquerín, and María Enríquez de Acuña. He had one sister, Ana Velázquez. Velázquez de Velasco married Luisa Montalvo de Lugo in Tunja in 1545 and the couple had three children: one son and two daughters.{{in lang|es}} [https://www.geni.com/people/Ort%C3%BAn-Vel%C3%A1zquez-de-Velasco/6000000002615811913 Ortún Velázquez de Velasco] – Geni María Velázquez de Velasco y Montalvo married conquistador Juan Maldonado Ordóñez.Rodríguez Freyle, 1979 (1638), p.126
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See also
{{Portal|Biography|Colombia|History|Spain}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{citation |last=Muñoz Cárdenas |first=Felipe Andrés |year=2014 |title=La Administración de Tunja a través del siglo XX – The Administration of Tunja through the twentieth century |url=http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/46574/1/03391234.2014.pdf |publisher=Universidad Nacional de Colombia |pages=1–163 |accessdate=2017-03-06}}
- {{citation |last1=Rodríguez Freyle |first1=Juan |last2=Achury Valenzuela |first2=Darío |year=1979 |orig-year=1859 (1638) |title=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 |url=http://www.biblioteca.org.ar/libros/211557.pdf |publisher=Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch |pages=1–598 |language=es |accessdate=2017-03-06 |author1-link=Juan Rodríguez Freyle }}
Further reading
- {{citation |last=Acosta |first=Joaquín |year=1848 |title=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 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfmJ48NHzDEC |publisher=Beau Press |location=Paris |pages=1–460 |oclc=23030434 |accessdate=2017-03-01}}
- {{citation |last=De Castellanos |first=Juan |year=1857 |orig-year=1589 |title=Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K8hL1TPQoa8C&pg=PA400 |pages=1–567 |publisher=Pontificia Universidad Javeriana |isbn=978-958-683-677-7 |language=es |accessdate=2017-03-01}}
- {{citation |last=Fernández de Piedrahita |first=Lucas |year=1676 |title=Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada |url=http://www.bibliotecanacional.gov.co/recursos_user/fantiguo/rg_973.pdf |chapter=VI |language=es |accessdate=2017-03-01}}
- {{citation |last=Jiménez de Quesada |first=Gonzalo |year=1576 |title=Memoria de los descubridores, que entraron conmigo a descubrir y conquistar el Reino de Granada |url=https://archive.org/stream/memoriasobrelasa00uric/memoriasobrelasa00uric_djvu.txt |language=es |accessdate=2017-03-01}}
- {{citation |last=De Plaza |first=José Antonio |year=1810 |title=Memorias para la historia de la Nueva Granada desde su descubrimiento el 20 de julio de 1810 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJ8vFjSWjzsC&pg=PA61|publisher=Imprenta del Neo-Granadino |pages=1–464 |accessdate=2017-03-01}}
- {{citation |last1=Rodríguez Freyle |first1=Juan |last2=Achury Valenzuela |first2=Darío |year=1979 |orig-year=1859 (1638) |title=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 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8NMZiVFRBMC |publisher=Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch |pages=1–592 |isbn=978-84-660-0025-3 |language=es |accessdate=2017-03-01 |author1-link=Juan Rodríguez Freyle }}
- {{citation |last=Simón |first=Pedro |year=1892 |orig-year=1626 |title=Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias occidentales (1882–92) vol.1–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/tierrafirmeindias01simbrich |language=es |accessdate=2017-03-01}}
- {{citation |last= |first= |year=1979 |orig-year=1889 (1539) |title=Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada |journal= Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico|volume= 16|issue= 3|url=http://publicaciones.banrepcultural.org/index.php/boletin_cultural/article/view/3679/3806 |publisher=Banco de la República |pages=81–97 |accessdate=2017-03-01}}
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