LC control no. | n 86129038 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Murúa, Martín de |
Variant(s) | Morúa, Martín de De Murúa, Martín |
Located | Peru |
Birth date | 1566 |
Death date | 1615-12-05 |
Place of birth | Escoriaza (Spain) |
Place of death | Spain |
Profession or occupation | Friars Priests |
Found in | His Los retratos de los incas en la crónica de fray Martín de Murúa, 1985: p. vii (b. Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa; arrived in Lima in 1577) Romero de Valle, E. Dicc. manual de lit. peruana y materias afines, 1966 (Morúa or Murúa, Fr. Martín de (Siglo XVI); mercedario) General history of Peru, 2024: CIP title page (Book 1 by Martín de Murúa) CIP galley (Martín de Murúa was born in the Gipuzkoa region in the town of Escoriaza, part of autonomous Basque Country of northern Spain. Although his exact date of birth is not known, baptismal records indicate that an unnamed male child from the Murúa family being baptized in the town of Escoriaza on 3 November 1566. Furthermore, documents reveal that Murúa returned to his hometown of Escoriaza on 5 November 1615, just a month before his death on 5 December 1615. If the day of baptism is correct, Murúa lived just under 50 years, the majority of which were spent in the Andes. Martín de Murúa joined the Orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced y la Redención de los Cautivos, better known as the Mercedarian Order, in Spain.) Wikipedia, April 18, 2024 (Martín de Murúa was a Basque Mercedarian friar and chronicler of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. He is primarily known for his work Historia general del Piru (written c. 1580-1616), which is considered the earliest illustrated history of Peru. Murúa volunteered to serve in the missions of New Spain, where he was sent by his superiors and arrived in Peru in the early 1580s. He is known to have lived in the Curahuasi Valley around that period. From about 1595 to 1601 his residence was at the Mercedarian Monastery of St. John Lateran in Arequipa.) |