• Thumbnail for Bernal Díaz del Castillo
    Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under...
    19 KB (2,340 words) - 20:00, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
    1568 by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of...
    9 KB (914 words) - 09:13, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hernán Cortés
    life. The account of the conquest of the Aztec Empire written by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, gives a detailed description of Hernán Cortés's physical appearance:...
    79 KB (10,042 words) - 20:57, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moctezuma II
    New Spain] (in Spanish). book IV, ch. III. Díaz del Castillo 2011, pp. 324–325. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal; Castro Gutiérrez, Felipe (2005) [1632]. "Introduction"...
    132 KB (16,567 words) - 20:09, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
    later in other parts of Europe. Much later, Spanish conqueror Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a well-seasoned participant in the conquest of Central Mexico...
    123 KB (15,823 words) - 14:38, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human sacrifice in Aztec culture
    observations of and wrote reports about the practice of human sacrifice. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who participated in the Cortés expedition, made frequent mention...
    63 KB (7,833 words) - 07:13, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tenochtitlan
    never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about. — Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain The city was divided into four zones...
    39 KB (4,437 words) - 02:06, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aztecs
    eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th- and 17th-century descriptions of Aztec...
    169 KB (21,050 words) - 02:58, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Macuahuitl
    the weapon as a "kind of a saw sword". According to conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the macuahuitl was 0.91 to 1.22 m long, and 75 mm wide, with a...
    23 KB (2,532 words) - 00:37, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Noche Triste
    ("True History of the Conquest of New Spain") by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Bernal Díaz del Castillo served as a rodelero, or soldier armed with sword...
    14 KB (1,723 words) - 19:12, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nojpetén
    Writing many years after his journey across Petén, conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo called the city Tayasal; this appears to have been a Hispanicisation...
    14 KB (1,608 words) - 15:12, 15 June 2024
  • Conquistadors including famous Conquistador and memoir-writer Bernal Díaz del Castillo into several military campaigns to conquer or reconquer sections...
    10 KB (1,010 words) - 11:59, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juan de Grijalva
    as Francisco, and became an interpreter on Cortes' expedition. Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote about the travels of Juan de Grijalva in his book Historia...
    3 KB (357 words) - 18:26, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Turkey (bird)
    appearing in Mayan manuscripts. Spanish chroniclers, including Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Father Bernardino de Sahagún, describe the multitude of food...
    43 KB (3,939 words) - 04:13, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for La Malinche
    S2CID 191613689. Del Rio, Fanny (2009). La verdadera historia de Malinche. México, D.F.: Grijalbo. ISBN 978-607-429-593-1. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1963) [1632]...
    49 KB (5,856 words) - 11:21, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gonzalo Guerrero
    RAE. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1844) [First published 1632 by Imp. del Reyno in Madrid]. "The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol...
    30 KB (3,389 words) - 18:23, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)
    Spaniards from Castilla del Oro presented themselves in Cuba to Diego Velázquez, the governor (and relative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo), who promised them...
    37 KB (5,507 words) - 05:49, 23 November 2024
  • chronologists were witnesses to this daily ritual. One of these, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, extrapolated in his book, The True History of the Conquest of...
    4 KB (428 words) - 03:07, 12 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
    and Díaz Ordaz's father took a number of jobs and the family frequently moved. He claimed ancestry with conqueror-chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Gustavo's...
    29 KB (2,953 words) - 14:54, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cristóbal de Olid
    Olid in battle and captured him. Accounts of how Olid died vary; Bernal Díaz del Castillo asserts in his Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de Nueva España...
    4 KB (449 words) - 19:56, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alfred Maudslay
    In 1908, he made a complete translation, with annotations, of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia. His translation remains the standard English edition...
    12 KB (1,416 words) - 15:48, 7 August 2024
  • Cortés Juan de la Cosa Bartolomé de Las Casas Alonso Díaz Moreno Bernal Díaz del Castillo Melchor Díaz Ambrosius Ehinger Francisco Fajardo Nikolaus Federmann...
    4 KB (421 words) - 12:32, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francisco de Ulloa
    first expedition to the New Spain. By the account of historian Bernal Díaz del Castillo, he came to Mexico later while transporting letters to Cortés from...
    7 KB (678 words) - 00:34, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Potonchán
    Grijalva River by the Spaniards, and according to the chronicles of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, it was a league from the coast. The city was located on a small...
    19 KB (2,874 words) - 10:48, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish colonization of the Americas
    Mexico include accounts by the expedition leader Hernán Cortés, Bernal Díaz del Castillo and other Spanish conquistadors, indigenous allies from the city-states...
    134 KB (16,625 words) - 11:13, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francisco López de Gómara
    account. However other contemporaries, among them most notably Bernal Díaz del Castillo, criticised his work as being full of inaccuracies, and one which...
    6 KB (844 words) - 11:40, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1584
    Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539) January 11 – Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish constiquador (b. 1496) January 15 – Martha Leijonhufvud...
    21 KB (2,417 words) - 14:19, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fall of Tenochtitlan
    both Aztecs and their subjects. It strongly influenced them, as Bernal Díaz del Castillo repeatedly attests.[citation needed] Moctezuma sent a group of...
    76 KB (10,331 words) - 07:05, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cuernavaca
    Coadnabaced in his letters to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo used the name Cuautlavaca in his chronicles. The coat-of-arms of...
    159 KB (16,771 words) - 22:13, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pedro de Alvarado
    and Diego de Ordaz. Also aboard were Francisco de Montejo and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, veterans of the Grijalva expedition. Alvarado once again commanded...
    64 KB (8,029 words) - 00:45, 21 November 2024