Cáceres, Alonso de

We do not know who this individual may have been exactly. There is an Alonso de Cáceres, son of Pedro de Cáceres and Tomasa de Guelmes, and brother of Francisco de Cáceres (c. 1539–1589), a Spanish conquistador whose activities were carried out mainly in Venezuela. Francisco and Alonso fought in the Flemish tercios. Cf. Ismael Silva Moreno, Hombres y mujeres del siglo XVI venezolano (Caracas, 1983), pp. 262 and 268. Another Alonso de Cáceres, son of Alonso de Alarcón and Inés de Vargas (natives of Ronda), is especially known for having served as maestre de campo in command of the right wing of the Spanish army during the Battle of Saint-Quentin, on 10 August 1557. Cf. José A. Rebullida, Felipe II y el éxito de San Quintín (Madrid, 2015). It is also possible that this Alonso de Cáceres was a close relative of Martín de Cáceres, whom BAM had placed under the protection of Albornoz (see letter 1568 11 09).

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