Francisco Hernández Girón

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Francisco Hernández Girón, born in Extremadura, died in Lima on December 7, 1554, was a Spanish conquistador.

He arrived to Peru in 1535 with, among others, the future governor Blasco Núñez Vela. In the ensuing struggle for power between the Pizarro brothers and the Almagristas in 1537, he supported neither. Almagro was executed in 1538 and Francisco Pizarro, governor of Peru, assassinated by his son in 1541. In the struggle following once next governor Cristóbal Vaca de Castro had defeated the Almagristas at Chupas and then becoming imprisoned by Blasco Núñez Vela, appointed royal viceroy, Girón became a supporter of the latter. As such fought at the battles of Añaquito and managed to escape death in an emerging defeat. At Jaquijahuana, he again took side of the royal forces under Pedro de la Gasca, with great success. On November 13 1553 he, however, led a rebellion towards the new rule caused by unequal charges proclaimed by Melchor Bravo de Saravia, the new viceroy and second to follow. He was defeated on December 7, 1554 and executed in Lima.es:Francisco Hernández Girón pl:Francisco Hernández Girón