Juan Bohón

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Juan Bohón , also Joan Bohon or Juan Boon (* in Rioseco de Soria , Spain ; † 1548 near La Serena , Chile ) was a Spanish conquistador in Chile and founder of the La Serena settlement.

biography

On May 21, 1534, he received permission to go to America in Toledo , on one of the ships with which Hernando Pizarro or people for Diego de Almagro traveled to Peru. On October 6th of the same year, he then embarked on the Ginés de la Riva . It can be proven that he was in Lima about two years later . This emerges from a public document signed by him on June 30, 1536, with which he undertook to lend the Spanish king 1035 gold pesos (value: approx. 5 kg fine gold).

After taking part in the unsuccessful conquista in Gran Chaco under the command of Diego de Rojas , he joined the conquistador Pedro de Valdivia near Tarapacá in April / May 1540 with about 60 men led by him to conquer Chile. Bartolomé Flores from Nuremberg is also said to have been in his group .

In Chile he was one of the founders of the new colony and city of Santiago del Nuevo Extremo . He held important public offices in the colonial administration. At the turn of the year 1543/1544, the governor Pedro de Valdivia sent him with ten soldiers to establish a second branch in the Coquimbo Valley and to set up a few rest stops, so-called tambos, on the way to Peru, in order to facilitate the connection between Lima and Santiago . So at the end of 1544, about 500 km north of Santiago, he founded the settlement of San Bartolomé de la Serena at the mouth of the Río Elqui .

In 1547 Juan Bohón went to Peru with Pedro de Valdivia to intervene in the civil war there on the side of the Spanish crown. Valdivia played a decisive role in the victory over the rebels in the Battle of Jaquijahuana (April 1548) and received his title of governor for Chile as a reward. He then sent Juan Bohón back to Chile with 32 soldiers to deliver the news. At La Serena, Bohón was ambushed. All of his companions were killed and he was captured. Naked and hung with a cross around his neck, he was mocked through the entire Copiapó Valley and finally hanged from a tree.

He left behind a son called Juan Bohón el mozo († 1591), a mestizo who also held important offices in the Chilean colonial administration.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b José Toribio Medina : Diccionario biográfico colonial de Chile . Imprenta Elziviriana, Santiago de Chile 1906, p. 136 f . ( memoriachilena.cl ).
  2. ↑ José Toribio Medina: Diccionario biográfico colonial de Chile. P. 913.
  3. ↑ Aurelia Cabero Matilla, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Pérez: Francisco de Villagrá y Pedro de Valdivia . ( dialnet.unirioja.es [accessed July 25, 2009]).
  4. ^ University of Bonn. Ibero-American Research Institute, Ibero-American Institute Berlin (Ed.): Ibero-American Archive (Berlin) . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1942 ( books.google.de - excerpt).
  5. ↑ Amunátegui Aldunate, Miguel Luis: Descubrimiento i conquista de Chile - Pedro de Valdivia . Imprenta, Litografía y Encuadernación Barcelona, ​​Santiago de Chile 1913, p. 230 ( [1] ).
  6. ^ RP Diego de Rosales: Historia general de el Reyno de Chile Flandes Indiano . Ed .: Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna. tape 1 . Imprenta del Mercurio, Valparaíso 1877, p. 428 ( memoriachilena.cl ).
personal data
SURNAME Bohón, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boon, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish conquistador
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Rioseco de Soria, Spain
DATE OF DEATH 1548
Place of death La Serena , Chile