He traveled in modern-day Colombia, Guatemala,[citation needed] and Peru and was executed by decapitation by order of Sebastián de Belalcázar.

Jorge Robledo was born in the year 1500 in Úbeda, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain, with unknown parents.

[1] He is first mentioned in the historical chronicles as soldier in the army of Lorenzo de Aldana, who was sent north by Francisco Pizarro in 1539 towards the newly founded province of Popayán.

After this, he spent three years in Spain where he married María de Carvajal y Mendoza, called La Mariscala.

[1] Jorge Robledo was executed by decapitation on October 5, 1546, by founder of Popayán Sebastián de Belalcázar, in whose expedition he was a captain, over a dispute of the Governorship of these towns.