Hernando de Luque

{{Short description|Spanish priest}} '''Hernando de Luque''' (Unknown – 1533) was a Spanish priest who travelled to the New World in the 16th century. Luque was born in Olvera, Andalusia,<ref name=Leon>Leon, P., 1998, The Discovery and Conquest of Peru, Chronicles of the New World Encounter, edited and translated by Cook and Cook, Durham: Duke University Press, {{ISBN|9780822321460}}</ref>{{rp|47}} but grew up in Luque, Spain. His last name comes from his town being Luque. His English name is Ferdinand ''of'' Luque. Luque left for the Americas in 1514.<ref name=Leon/>{{rp|47}} He arrived in 1514 with the expedition of Pedrarias Dávila to Panama, where he met Francisco Pizarro. He later met Vazquez who helped him in the conversion of the Incas.

Luque acted as an agent for the financial backer, Judge Gaspar de Espinosa, of the joint expedition by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro to Peru in 1526.<ref name=Hemming>Hemming, J., 1970, The Conquest of the Incas, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., {{ISBN|0151225605}}</ref>{{rp|24}} He was named "Bishop of Tumbes" and "Protector of the Indians" in the ''Capitulation'' of 1529.<ref name=Prescott/>{{rp|134}}

In 1533, Hernando de Luque died in Panama.<ref name=Prescott>Prescott, W.H., 2011, The History of the Conquest of Peru, Digireads.com Publishing, {{ISBN|9781420941142}}</ref>{{rp|198–199}}

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