Pedro Simón

Pedro Simón was born in 1574 in San Lorenzo de la Parrilla, in the province of Cuenca, entered the Franciscans and arrived in Bogotá in 1604, at the age of thirty, called there to found the studies of his province. He taught theology there for more than fourteen years in a row, became provincial of his order and travelled the country, consulting the archives of the towns and questioning the last witnesses of the conquest. He died around 1628 in Ubaté.

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• ChronicleHistorical Accounts of the Conquests of Tierra FirmeNoticias historiales de las conquistas de Tierra FirmePedro Simón · 1627LiteraturePublic domain