Note 65 — Chapter XXXI

Herrera and others tell a story that Juan Rodríguez Barragán hit the Marquis a blow with a silver jug full of water when he was on the ground, which killed him. Prescott repeats this in a footnote, calling Barragán "a soldier named Borregan." Helps writes: "Some base fellow dashed a jug upon his prostrate face."

Juan Rodriguez Barragán was not a soldier, but one of the lawyers in Almagro's pay. He was Almagro's procurator at the Judge Arbitrator's court when he pronounced the sentence at Mala, and Barragán raised a protest. His son was certainly one of the murderers, but the story of the jug is probably an invention. The son was hanged after the battle of Chupas. The word barragán means a youth, same as mancebo. Originally from Navarre, a branch of the family settled at Baeza in Andalusia, whose arms were or, a tree vert, at its stem a dead knight and two ravens sable, wings raised.