page_title: Hernán Venegas Carrillo
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Hernán Venegas Carrillo / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Zipa Zaquesazipa
context_page_description: Hernán Venegas Carrillo Manosalvas was a Spanish conquistador for who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and Panche people in the New Kingdom of Granada, present-day Colombia. Venegas Carrillo was mayor of Santa Fe de Bogotá for two terms; in 1542 and from 1543 to 1544.
context_section_description: Venegas Carrillo was born in Córdoba, Andalusia, around 1513. His parents were Diego Ruiz Venegas Manosalvas and Inés Venegas. Venegas Carrillo was married twice, first to Magdalena of Guatavita, the sister of Sagipa (also named Zaquezazipa), the last Muisca zipa. This was one of the first mestizo marriages conducted in the New Kingdom of Granada. With her Venegas Carrillo had four children: María, Alonso, Isabel and Fernán Venegas. After the death of his Muisca wife, Venegas Carrillo married Juana Ponce de León and had eight more children with her: Maria,  Alonso, Pedro, Luis, Francisco, Juana, Isabel and Inés Venegas Ponce de León. His daughter Maria Venegas Carrillo Ponce de León died in Pamplona, Norte de Santander. Alonso, his son with Magdalena de Guatavita, killed fellow conquistador Gonzalo García Zorro in a duel in 1566. 
  Conquistador Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela was his cousin.
caption: Sagipa was Hernán's first father-in-law
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