Miguel Cabello de Balboa

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Miguel Cabello de Balboa
Bornc. 1535[1]
Archidona, Málaga, Spain
Died1608[1]
Camata, Larecaja, Bolivia
NationalitySpanish
Occupation(s)Soldier, cleric, chronicler, writer
RelativesVasco Núñez de Balboa
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristian
ChurchCatholic: Order of Saint Augustine

Miguel Cabello de Balboa (c. 1535 — 1608) was a Spanish

secular priest
and writer.

Early years

Miguel Cabello de Balboa was a great-nephew of Captain Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to have lead an expedition to encounter the Pacific Ocean from the New World in 1513. He was born at Archidona, Málaga, perhaps in either 1530 or 1535, though the exact date is unknown.

Career

Military

Choosing a military career as a young man, he participated in the wars of France and the Netherlands, under the leadership of Prince Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, and Lamoral, Count of Egmont, and directly with Rodrigo de Basan. He was amongst the victors of the Battle of Gravelines (1558) over the French armies of Marshal Paul de Thermes.

Ecclesiastical

On his return to Malaga in 1565 or 1566 he entered the

Apolobamba in eastern Bolivia, between the Andes and the Beni River. In this letter he does not explicitly state that he visited those districts, but the information imparted is such as to imply this. The letter is taken from a book written by Father Cabello of which nothing else is known.[3] He is also an important source on the northern Andean region, especially the Pacific shore and the forested regions running inland up to the cordilleras of what are now northern Ecuador and southern Colombia. He died in 1608 at Camata, Larecaja Province
, Bolivia.

An exemplary edition of the whole Miscelánea Antártica was published by San Marcos University, Peru, in 1951, supplanting previous partial editions. The original was (1853) in possession of the historiographer

Inca civilization is expounded at length, and the origin of the Inca given in a manner somewhat at variance with the accounts of other Spanish authors.[3]
Writings about the lowland peoples are gathered in a 1945 Ecuadorian volume entitled Verdadera Descripción y Relación de la Provincia y Tierra de las Esmeraldas.

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b "Miguel Cabello Balboa". CERL Thesaurus. London: Consortium of European Research Libraries. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  2. ISBN 9780900411021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  3. ^ a b Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1906). "Miguel Cabello de Balboa". The Catholic Encyclopedia; An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. New York: The Encyclopedia Press. p. 126.

See also

  • Barrenechea, Raul Porras
    (1986). Los Cronistas del Peru (1528-1650). Lima: BCP.
  • Pimentel, Rodolfo Perez
    . Diccionario Biográfico del Ecuador. Quito.
  • Tauro del Pino, Alberto (2001). Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú. Lima: PEISA.
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