Hernán Cortés

male, deceased (1547)
spanish conquistador, conquistador, City founder, castile, Spanish nobility, ColonialMexico…Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Hernán(do) Cortés Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca was the "conquistador" who became famous for leading the military expedition that ini...

Bartolomé de las Casas

male, deceased (1566)
andalusian, Spanish Empire, Dominicans, Dominican Order, From Seville, evangelical lutheran church in america…ColonialMexico
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (August 24 1484 - July 17 1566), was a 16th century Spanish Dominican priest, and the first resident Bishop of C...
Miguel Hidalgo

Miguel Hidalgo

male, deceased (1811)
Christian, executed, priest, minister, criollo, Mexican…ColonialMexico
Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mondarte Villaseñor also known as Cura Hidalgo (Priest Hidalgo), Mexican patriot and c...
Antonio de Mendoza

Antonio de Mendoza

male, deceased (1552)
andalusian, Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza, conde de Tendilla, spanish language, Charles V, Codex Mendoza, Council of the Indies…Colonial Peru, ColonialMexico
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza, conde de Tendilla (Spanish: "Antonio de Mendoza, tercer conde de Tendilla") (1495, Granada - July 21, 1552, Lima), was...
Vasco de Quiroga

Vasco de Quiroga

male, deceased (1565)
Roman Catholic bishop, ColonialMexico, madrigal, bishop, castile, Roman Catholic
Vasco de Quiroga (ca. 1470, Madrigal, Castile-March 14, 1565, Uruapan) was the first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico and one of the judges ("oidores") i...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

male, deceased (1581)
historian, spanish, Aztec history, spanish conquistador, The (True History of) the Conquest of New Spain, mesoamerica…conquest of mexico, ColonialMexico, Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Bernal Díaz del Castillo was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés, him...

Juan de Zumárraga

male, deceased (1548)
Roman Catholic bishop, Charles V, Franciscan, bishop, basque, spanish…ColonialMexico
Juan de Zumárraga was a Spanish Franciscan prelate and first bishop of Mexico. Zumárraga was born in Durango in Spain's Basque provinces. He en...
Diego de Landa

Diego de Landa

male, deceased (1579)
Bishop of Yucatán, Roman Catholic bishop, Izamal, ColonialMexico, Franciscan, Guadalajara, Spain
Diego de Landa Calderón was Bishop of Yucatán. He left future generations with a mixed legacy in his writings which contain much valuable in...
Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado

male, deceased (1541)
Accidental death, spanish conquistador, conquistador, guatemala, badajoz, ColonialMexico
Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (also known as Don Pedro de Alvarado and Tonatiuh by Mexican natives; born Badajoz, Spain, c.1495, died Guadalajara,...
Luis de Velasco

Luis de Velasco

male, deceased (1564)
spanish, ColonialMexico, Spanish colonization of the Americas, viceroy, cholula, puebla…National Autonomous University of Mexico, Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico
Luis de Velasco was the second viceroy of New Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century. Velasco was born...