Juan de Sanct Martín, also known as Juan de San Martín, was a Spanish conquistador. Little is known about De Sanct Martín, apart from a passage in El Carnero...

Ignacio María de la Barrera Troncoso (1794-1840), of the illustrious de la Barrera family descended from the Spanish conquistador Pedro de la Barrera that...

boys in Guanajuato, Mexico, to María del Pilar Barrientos and Diego Rivera Acosta, a well-to-do couple. His twin brother Carlos died two years after they...

Luis). Thus, Juan Ponce de León y Loayza was the great-grandson of the Spanish conquistador and first governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León. In his...

Spanish) Juan Tafur – Banco de la República – Soledad Acosta de Samper (in Spanish) Martín Yañéz Tafur – Banco de la República – Soledad Acosta Samper (in...

He was a cousin of fellow conquistadors Martín Yañéz Tafur, Hernán Venegas Carrillo and Pedro Fernández de Valenzuela. Juan Tafur was five times encomendero...

Pánfilo de Narváez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaɱfilo ðe naɾˈβaeθ]; born 1470 or 1478, died 1528) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas...

and historian José de Acosta, who was ordered to refute his philosophical bases. Acosta wrote an entire treaty utilizing Francisco de Vitoria's thesis to...

Hernán Pérez de Quesada, sometimes spelled as Quezada, (c. 1515 – 1544) was a Spanish conquistador. Second in command of the army of his elder brother...

Juan de(l) Junco (1503 in Ribadesella, Asturias, Castile – ? in Santo Domingo) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of...

Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South America, discovered Panama, and founded the city of Santa Marta. Rodrigo de Bastidas...

Juan Cerón was a Spanish conquistador and the second and fourth governor (1509–1513) of Puerto Rico when the island was still called San Juan. He was...

the daughter of a local chief, was abducted in 1509 by Spanish conquistador Diego de Nicuesa from an indigenous settlement known as Zamba o Galerazamba...

a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca people. García Zorro was encomendero (mayor) of Santa Fe de Bogotá for...

being shot with a poisoned arrow. Meanwhile, another group of conquistadors, led by Diego de Ordaz, were searching for the source of the Orinoco River. Sailing...

Juan de la Cámara (1525–1602) was a Spanish conquistador, nobleman, and colonial administrator known for his role in the Spanish Conquest of Yucatán. Born...

Jiménez de Quesada, main conquistador, and scholars Pedro de Aguado, Juan Rodríguez Freyle, Juan de Castellanos, Pedro Simón, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita...

Mercedes Abrego, spy and martyr (2010) Josefa Acevedo de Gómez, writer (1997) Soledad Acosta de Samper, writer and journalist (2013) Alexander II of Russia...

Castile – 1552, Santafé de Bogotá, New Kingdom of Granada) was a Spanish conquistador who first served under Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and later in the...

Juan de Albarracín (?, Castile – ?, Castile) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and Panche people. He was...

Carrillo Ponce de León died in Pamplona, Norte de Santander. Alonso, his son with Magdalena de Guatavita, killed fellow conquistador Gonzalo García Zorro...

Cortés Moctezuma, with conquistador Hernán Cortés. Her sons founded a line of Spanish nobility. The title of Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo descends from...

explorer and conquistador, first European in Chile Luis de Moscoso Alvarado (1505–1551), explorer and conquistador. Juan Bautista de Anza (1736–1788)...

was a Spanish conquistador who is known as the founder of the town of Pasca, Cundinamarca, in the south of the Bogotá savanna, Colombia. De Céspedes arrived...

Antonio de Lebrija (1507–1540) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest of the Muisca and the Chimila peoples. He was the treasurer...

high chief who struck the initial peace agreement with Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León in 1508, Agüeybaná II rose to power. Beginning his reign...

Ocampo López, Pedro Simón, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Juan de Castellanos and conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada who was the European making first...

comes from the testimonies of conquistadors and colonists Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada; Spanish poet, soldier, and priest Juan de Castellanos (16th century);...

Antonio Díaz de Cardoso (1495, in Santa Comba, Portugal –1573 in Santafe de Bogotá) was a Portuguese conquistador who participated in the Spanish conquest...

Quimbaya. Many conquistadors as well as Spanish chroniclers in Colombia have been described in biographies by Juan Friede. On Pedro de Aguado, whose birth...