Pedro Ruíz Corredor

Spanish conquistador
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

Pedro Ruíz Corredor is located in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense
Oicatá
Oicatá
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Encomienda of Ruíz Corredor on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense

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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, 1–318. Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Accessed 2017-03-06.
  • Jaramillo Uribe, Jaime. 1964. La población indígena de Colombia en el momento de la conquista y sus transformaciones posteriores, 239–293. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Accessed 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, 1–163. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Accessed 2017-03-06.

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 2017-03-01.
  • De Castellanos, Juan. 1857 (1589). Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias, 1–567. Accessed 2017-03-01.
  • Fernández de Piedrahita, Lucas. 1676. VI. Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada. Accessed 2017-03-01.
  • Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo. 1576. Memoria de los descubridores, que entraron conmigo a descubrir y conquistar el Reino de Granada. Accessed 2017-03-01.
  • De Plaza, José Antonio. 1810. Memorias para la historia de la Nueva Granada desde su descubrimiento el 20 de julio de 1810, 1–464. Imprenta del Neo-Granadino. Accessed 2017-03-01.
  • 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, 1–592. Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch. Accessed 2017-03-01.
  • Simón, Pedro. 1892 (1626). Noticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias occidentales (1882–92) vol.1–5. Accessed 2017-03-01.
  • N, N. 1979 (1889) (1539). Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada, 81–97. Banco de la República. Accessed 2017-03-01.
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