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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Bartolomé Flores''' (1511 – November 11, 1585) is believed to have been the first [[Germans|German]] to arrive in Chile. He came with the expedition of [[Pedro de Valdivia]] at the beginning of the [[Spain|Spanish]] conquest of Chile.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Bartholomew, known in Chile as ''Bartolomé Flores'', was born 1506 or 1511 in the [[Franconia]]n town of Nuremberg. His parents were John and Agatha. His Spanish family name ''Flores'' is a translation of his unknown original name in German. [[Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna]] (1877) named him hypothetically ''Blumen'', which is a translation of his Spanish name into German, but does not exist as a surname in German. In his ''Diccionario Biográfico Colonial de Chile'' (1906) [[José Toribio Medina]] named him ''Blumenthal'', a modern German-Jewish name, without mentioning his source. In Nuremberg at that time there were families named ''Blum'', ''Blümel'' or ''Blümlein''.<br />
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Bartholomew came about 1528 to America and stayed first in La Española, Santo Domingo and Nicaragua, from where he travelled to Peru, to support [[Francisco Pizarro]]. There he got to know Pedro de Valdivia.<br />
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Bartolomé travelled together with Valdivia's expedition in the beginning of the conquest of Chile. There he participated in the defense of the settlement of Santiago, when it was attacked by local tribes led by chief [[Michimalonco]] on 11 September 1541.<br />
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In Chile he married Elvira, the only daughter of [[Tala Canta Ilabe]], the [[Cacique]] of Talagante. The daughter of Flores and Elvira was baptized with the name of Águeda Flores and is the grandmother of [[Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer]], called ''La Quintrala''.<br />
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He died in 1585 in [[Talagante]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[German-Chilean]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070430172913/http://www.quepasa.cl/medio/articulo/0%2C0%2C38035857_172985951_182247424%2C00.html Bartolomé Flores] (Article in ''La Tercera'': ICARITO)<br />
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