Juan Rodríguez Freyle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Juan Rodríguez Freyle

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1566

Place of Birth: Bogotá, Colombia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer

Nationality: Colombia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Juan Rodríguez Freyle (also written as Juan Rodríguez Freile), (Bogotá, New Kingdom of Granada, 25 April 1566 - Bogotá, 1642) was an early writer in the New Kingdom of Granada, the Spanish colonial territory of what today is Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
The son of a soldier in the army of Pedro de Ursúa, Rodríguez Freyle knew the cacique of Guatavita and the founder of Bogotá: Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
His major work El Carnero is a collection of stories, anecdotes and rumours about the early days of colonial Colombia and the demise of the Muisca Confederation.
It is one of the most important sources for the sixteenth century colonial period of present-day Colombia. Juan Rodríguez Freyle was married to Francisca Rodríguez and died in Bogotá in 1642.