Pedro Mariño de Lobera
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Pedro Mariño de Lobera (1528 - 1594) Spanish soldier and chronicler of the Arauco War in the Kingdom of Chile in the Crónica del Reino de Chile.
A professional soldier who served in the war between Spain and France, he went to the Americas in 1545. Mariño joined the forces of Pedro de La Gasca in Havana, when he received the order of King Carlos V to end the revolt of Gonzalo Pizarro in Peru. He was transferred to Lima where he remained until his trip to Chile, in 1551.
In Chile he participated actively next to Pedro de Valdivia and Francisco de Villagra in the first campaigns made in the South, as an outstanding soldier. Also, he was present in the campaigns of the governors García Hurtado de Mendoza and Rodrigo de Quiroga.
Later, in payment of his services, an encomienda in the city of Valdivia was granted to him. He was the corregidor of the city, rendering his aid to the victims of the flood caused by the 1575 Valdivia earthquake. Later he was also corregidor of Camaná, in the south coast of Peru, returning later to Lima.
In his last years Mariño de Lobera had a friendship with the Jesuit Bartolomé de Escobar, who also had been in Chile, giving him the manuscripts of his Chronicle of the Kingdom of Chile to correct and publish. However the text was never printed at the time. Only in 1865 was it published in the Volume VI of the Colección de Historiadores de Chile y documentos relativos a la Historia Nacional de ese país.
Mariño de Lobera died in 1594 in Lima.
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- Mariño de Lobera, Pedro,Crónica del Reino de Chile , escrita por el capitán Pedro Mariño de Lobera....reducido a nuevo método y estilo por el Padre Bartolomé de Escobar. Edición digital a partir de Crónicas del Reino de Chile Madrid, Atlas, 1960, pp. 227-562, (Biblioteca de Autores Españoles ; 569-575). Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (on line in Spanish)
