Juan Godínez

After coming to Peru, he campaigned with Diego de Almagro in Chile.

He was captain of cavalry during the campaign against Lautaro in 1556 where, after the Battle of Peteroa, his company pursued the retreating Mapuche and destroyed a detachment of Lautaro's army near the Maule River.

[1] In 1557 his command defending Santiago joined that of the Governor Francisco de Villagra to destroy Lautaro's army in the Battle of Mataquito.

[2] He then served in the army of García Hurtado de Mendoza in his campaign during the Arauco War in southern Chile.

His mestiza daughter, Leonor Godínez, married Don Juan Hurtado, notary public of Serena and Santiago.

Portrait of Captain Juan Godínez, work of the visual artist Anicio Vera. It belongs to the collection of the historian Sacha Aníbal Cardona Benítez, descendant of the Conquistador