Fabián Ruiz de Aguilar

Fabian Ruiz de Aguilar (* Aguilar de Campos, Corona de Castilla h. 1539 - †?), a cleric who participated in the conquest of Chile.

Ruiz de Aguilar arrived in Chile in 1560, as a cantor of the Cathedral of Santiago, and for lack of priests, Bishop Gonzalez provided him with priest and vicar of some southern cities. After that, the vacant Sede appointed him for the Confines, a position that served two years, and soon became a Visitor and Vicar General of Valdivia, Villarrica, Osorno and Castro.

On his return to Santiago, he was sent to La Serena and then to Cuyo, where he remained for a year. On the occasion of Bishop Barrionuevo's death, Santiago was called to entrust him with the post of vicar general. Later he went to Lima, to the council, and he had to stay there, because his prebend had come, unless it was worth two hundred pesos. The Archbishop of that city provided him with a visitador general, a position in which he rendered private services, and in whose performance he contracted a serious illness. In 1588, although he had a license to go to Spain, as we have seen, he was still in Lima requesting a prebend there. At that time he was fifty-nine years old.

In the performance of his office as general inspector of the southern provinces, Ruiz de Aguilar, whom the Royal Audiencia had recommended not to recognize the bishop of the Imperial more jurisdiction than the one competing in his Cathedral, and later, when the vacant seat chose him as a provisor, on the occasion of the war, he kept soldiers and supplied them arms and horses.

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