Antonio de Lebríja was the treasurer of the expedition along the green route from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation Antonio de Lebrija was born in 1507, at Alcántara, Extremadura, Spain; and died in 1540, at Brozas, also in Extremadura. He was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and the Chimila peoples. He was the treasurer of the conquest expedition which left Santa Marta in April 1536 following the high quality salt trail, the Camino de la Sal, along the Suárez River up the slopes of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes towards the Muisca Confederation. Founding of Bogata In 1538, on the Bogotá savanna, de Quesada sent de Lebrija, along with Juan de Céspedes, Juan de San Martín, and Gómez del Corral ahead to locate the most favourable site to found the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada.Salcedo Salcedo, 2011, p.158 They selected a location in Teusaquillo, where Santa Fe de Bogotá was founded on August6, 1538. Return to Spain After the two conquistadors Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar arrived in Bogotá, de Lebrija departed with de Quesada, and fellow conquistador Juan de Albarracín for Guataquí, a town they had founded. Guataquí, on the Magdalena River, was the port where de Albarracín ordered the construction of two small boats by the indigenous Panche people.Prieto, 2009, p.26 From here, the Spanish conquistadors left for Cartagena, from where they sailed back to Spain. In Cartagena, in July 1539, de Lebrija authored a letter to the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, describing the activities in the New Kingdom.Friede, 1960 De Lebrija died in 1540 in Brozas, Extremadura.Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.69 Sources Antonio de Lebríja is mentioned as Librixa, and in the early chronicle about the Spanish conquest, a work of uncertain authorship, Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada.Epítome, p.82
Antonio de Lebríja was the treasurer of the expedition along the green route from Santa Marta into the Muisca Confederation Antonio de Lebrija was born in 1507, in Alcántara, Extremadura, Spain; and died in 1540, in Brozas, also in Extremadura. He was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and the Chimila peoples. He was the treasurer of the conquest expedition which left Santa Marta in April 1536 following the high quality salt trail, the Camino de la Sal, along the Suárez River up the slopes of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes towards the Muisca Confederation. Foundation of Bogotá In 1538, on the Bogotá savanna, De Quesada sent De Lebrija, along with Juan de Céspedes, Juan de San Martín, and Gómez del Corral ahead to locate the most favourable site to found the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada.Salcedo Salcedo, 2011, p.158 They selected a location in Teusaquillo, where Santa Fe de Bogotá was founded on August6, 1538. Return to Spain After the two conquistadors Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar arrived in Bogotá, De Lebrija departed with De Quesada, and fellow conquistador Juan de Albarracín for Guataquí, a town they had founded. Guataquí, on the Magdalena River, was the port where De Albarracín ordered the construction of two small boats by the indigenous Panche people.Prieto, 2009, p.26 From here, the Spanish conquistadors left for Cartagena, from where they sailed back to Spain. In Cartagena, in July 1539, de Lebrija authored a letter to the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo, describing the activities in the New Kingdom.Friede, 1960 De Lebrija died in 1540 in Brozas, Extremadura.Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.69 Epítome Antonio de Lebríja is mentioned as Librixa, and in the early chronicle about the Spanish conquest, a work of uncertain authorship, Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada.Epítome, p.82
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