Francisco de Camargo

Francisco de Camargo, also known as Francisco de Vargas y Camargo (c. 16th Century Trujillo – 16th Century), was a 16th-century Spanish navigator, explorer, and commander. He served as adelantado of the Governorate of New León. He was lord of Oliva de Plasencia, the third son of Francisco de Vargas y Medina and Inés de Carvajal y Camargo, and the brother of Gutierre de Vargas Carvajal, bishop of Plasencia. He was also a relative of Alonso de Camargo. He married María de Ocampo y Sotomayor, with whom he had a daughter, Inés de Camargo. Inés later married Juan de Vargas Carvajal, a knight of the Order of Santiago and royal advisor to Kings Charles I and Philip I of Spain.