Pedro Fernández de Lugo
Pedro Fernández de Lugo (1475
At the age of sixty, he organized an expedition to present-day Colombia in the New World. He was appointed Governor of Santa Marta in 1535, backed financially by Cristóbal Francesquini and Juan Alberto Gerardini, a Florentine residing in Tenerife from 1510. Fernández de Lugo appointed Licentiate Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada as General Lieutenant of the expedition whose purpose was to find the source of the Magdalena River and a land path to Peru. The expedition ended up discovering and conquering the Muisca. Fernández de Lugo died in 1536, before receiving news of the newly discovered Muisca.
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