Jorge Griego
Jorge Griego (George the Greek) who lived from 1504 and died after 1545, was a Greek conquistador who participated in the conquest of Peru. Jorge was born in 1504 possibly in Greece and followed his Greek friend Pedro De Candia[1] [2] [3] to Panama and Peru. He was also apointed as an encomendero in Jauja [4], an authority which was granted mostly to Conquistadors.
Life
Jorge Griego went to Panama by following his friend Pedro De Candia who was a famous Greek Conquistador and commander of the artillery in Peru[5]. Under the services of Francisco Pizarro in 1532 he took part in the battle of Cajamarca[6] [7] as a footman, against the forces of the Inca emperor Atahualpa. It should also be noted that there were many Greeks amongst the Spaniards who served as soldiers and especially as artillery men, in the conquest of the New world[8]. Jorge later became a resident in the city of Jauja [9] in Peru and was appointed there as an encomendero, he later moved to Lima. In 1545 when the forces of Viceroy Blasco Nunez Vela pushed far to the north, outside the limits of Peru and had no one to manufacture gunpowder, Jorge Griego took over the task, though it was not his profession and went on a few years later to make large quantities of gunpowder during the Gasca campaign [10].
Finally Jorge Griego left from Peru and returned to Spain and settled in Seville's maritime district Triana.
- ^ Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: a social history by James Lockhart p.g. 142
- ^ http://www.greenapple.gr/articlesdesc.php?id=129
- ^ http://genforum.genealogy.com/peru/messages/709.html
- ^ The discovery and the Conquest of Peru of Pedro de Cieza by Alexandra Parma Cook an Noble Cook pg 247
- ^ Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: a social history by James Lockhart pg 142
- ^ The discovery and the Conquest of Peru of Pedro de Cieza by Alexandra Parma Cook an Noble Cook pg 242
- ^ Men of Cajamarca by James Lockhart pg 377-379
- ^ Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: a social history by James Lockhart pg 29, 142, 146
- ^ The discovery and the Conquest of Peru of Pedro de Cieza by Alexandra Parma Cook an Noble Cook pg 247
- ^ Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: a social history by James Lockhart pg 143