Rodrigo Orgóñez

Rodrigo Orgóñez (* 1490, † April 26, 1538 in Las Salinas, Peru) was a Spanish soldier who was involved as a conquistador in the conquest of Peru and Chile.

Life

Orgóñez was already a veteran veteran in the armies of Emperor Charles V, who had already participated as flag bearer at Sacco di Roma, as he passes, together with Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro to the Inca Empire. He had participated in the first conquest of Cuzco, when Francisco Pizarro formally took the Inca town with the entire entourage of the Conquistadores in possession and 86 Spaniards, among them Orgóñez declared solemnly citizens of the Spanish city of Cuzco. Orgóñez was among the first, employed by Pizarro Regidores (Spanish = aldermen ) Cuzco.

He was the ablest captain under Diego de Almagro. For his participation in the campaign Almagros to Chile, he was appointed Marshal of Neutoledo, the previous name for the province of Chile. With the recapture of Cuzco in April 1537 he supported Almagro against the Pizarro brothers. The support Hernando Pizarro in Cuzco dispatched 500 troops Alonso de Alvarado defeated Orgóñez on a night surprise attack in Abancay, thanks to the treachery of Captain Alvarado Pedro de Lerma. When Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro and Alonso de Alvarado were in his captivity, Orgóñez urged Almagro at several times unsuccessfully to the decapitation of three, as " a dead dog neither bites nor barks ".

In Almagro's last battle, the Battle of Las Salinas, he was commissioned by Almagro with the military line of the battle. He himself led the cavalry of Almagro. Orgóñez was during his desperate struggle wounded by a musket shot and torn from his horse. Surrounded by six enemy fighters, he asked for an officer to whom he could surrender. Hernando Pizarro servant Fuentes took him prisoner and then hit him with great cruelty head off.

Swell

• Man
• Conquistador
• Military person (Spain )
• Spaniard
• Born in 1490
• Died in 1538