Pedro Ruíz Corredor

Pedro Ruíz Corredor
DiedAfter 1601
NationalityCastilian
OccupationsConquistador
Years active1533–1548
EmployerSpanish Crown
Known forConquest of the Muisca
Conquest of the Inca
SpouseElvira Pérez de Cuéllar
ChildrenMaría Ruíz Corredor
RelativesMiguel Ruíz Corredor (brother)
Notes
Pedro Ruiz Corredor was one of the soldiers in the expedition along the green route from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation

Pedro Ruíz Corredor (d. after 1601) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca. He searched for El Dorado, returned to Spain, was sent back to the new world, helped consolidate newly conquered Peru for Spain, retired to his fiefdom to raise a family, and lived to a ripe old age.

Biography

El Dorado

The origins of Pedro Ruíz Corredor are unknown. He arrived from Spain in Santa Marta in 1533.[1] Ruíz Corredor joined the expedition of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada in the quest for El Dorado, leaving Santa Marta in April 1536.[3] Ruíz Corredor received the encomienda of Oicatá and Nemuza.[4] His brother Miguel was mayor of Tunja in 1591 and 1598.[5]

Peru

Pedro Ruíz Corredor returned to Spain with the valuables he had obtained in the New Kingdom of Granada. In 1548 he was sent to Peru, where he assisted the troops of Pedro de la Gasca and Gonzalo Pizarro.[1] In June 1570, Ruíz Corredor was back in Oicatá and ordered the Muisca of his encomienda, and the villages of Chivatá, Motavita, Suta, Cómbita and Moniquirá to construct acequias, channels for the drainage of the lands.[6] In 1601 Ruíz Corredor is mentioned as he having promised to pay the native people in his encomienda 200 cotton mantles, but only supplying half of that.[7]

Personal life

Pedro Ruíz Corredor married Elvira Pérez de Cuéllar and the couple had one daughter; María Ruíz Corredor.[2] Elvira's sister Isabel was married to Bartolomé Camacho Zambrano, a fellow conquistador in Colombia.[8] The place and year of his death are unknown.

Encomienda

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Encomienda of Ruíz Corredor on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c (in Spanish) Pedro Ruiz Corredor – Banco de la República – Soledad Acosta de Samper
  2. ^ a b Pedro Ruiz Corredor – Geni
  3. ^ (in Spanish) Lista de los que consiguieron el descubrimiento del Reino de Granada con el General don Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, en el año de 1538 – Banco de la República
  4. ^ Jaramillo Uribe, 1964, p.287
  5. ^ Muñoz Cárdenas, 2014, p.17
  6. ^ Gaviria Liévano, 2002, p.63
  7. ^ Gaviria Liévano, 2002, p.64
  8. ^ Isabel Pérez de Cuéllar – Geni

Bibliography

  • Gaviria Liévano, Enrique (2002), El liberalismo y la insurrección de los artesanos contra el librecambio: primeras manifestaciones socialistas en Colombia, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, pp. 1–318, ISBN 978-958-9029-49-7, retrieved 2017-03-06
  • Jaramillo Uribe, Jaime (1964), La población indígena de Colombia en el momento de la conquista y sus transformaciones posteriores (PDF), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, pp. 239–293, retrieved 2017-03-06
  • Muñoz Cárdenas, Felipe Andrés (2014), La Administración de Tunja a través del siglo XX – The Administration of Tunja through the twentieth century (PDF), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, pp. 1–163, retrieved 2017-03-06

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