Miguel Holguín y Figueroa

Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Miguel Holguín de Figueroa, (1516, Cáceres, Castile - >1576, Tunja, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador. He took part in the expeditions of the conquest of the Chitarero, Motilon, U'wa and Lache led by Nikolaus Federmann. Holguín y Figueroa later settled in Tunja, where he protested the bad deeds of Hernán Pérez de Quesada who governed Bogotá after the foundation and initial rule by his elder brother Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
Juan Rodríguez Freyle wrote about Miguel Holguín de Figueroa in his work El Carnero.

Miguel Holguín y Figueroa, also written as Holguín de Figueroa, was born in 1516 in Cáceres. He married twice, with Isabel de Cárcamo y Orozco and Isabel Maldonado de Bohórquez (or Bohórques), widow of Pedro Núñez de Cabrera. With Isabel de Cárcamo y Orozco he had two daughters; Inés de Cárcamo and Elvira de Holguín and with Isabel Maldonado de Bohórquez a son and a daughter; Diego Holguín de Figueroa Maldonado de Bohorques and María Maldonado de Holguín. He is named in texts until 1576, while his year of death in Tunja is unknown.