Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto

male, deceased (1542)
Jerez de los Caballeros, Exploration, hidalgo, spanish conquistador, Floridacolonial, hidalgos
Hernando de Soto (c.1496/1497 –May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. Born in the Extremadura region of Spain, he participated, in...

Pánfilo de Narváez

male, deceased (1528)
Floridacolonial, spanish conquistador, Spanish conquistadore, Americas, Spanish colonial period of Cuba, spanish
Pánfilo de Narváez was a Spanish conqueror and soldier in the Americas. He is most remembered as the leader of two expeditions, one to Mexico in 15...
Jean Ribault

Jean Ribault

male, deceased (1565)
Huguenot, Floridacolonial, Coastal, French North America, Native American, atlantic ocean
Jean Ribault was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States. He was born in the coastal...

Juan Ponce de León

male, deceased (1521)
death by poisoning, Fountain of Youth, spanish conquistador, Floridacolonial, moorish, Age of Discovery
Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 - July 1521) was a Spanish conquistador. He was born in Santervás de Campos (Valladolid). As a young man he joined th...

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

male, deceased (1574)
Floridacolonial, spanish conquistador, Spanish conquistadore, City founder, Explorer of North America, spanish…Spanish Florida
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, was a sixteenth century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter, known most notably for his founding of St. Augustine, Fl...
Estevanico

Estevanico

male, deceased (1539)
Moroccan, explorer, spanish conquistador, Floridacolonial, North Africa, Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Estevanico (also known as "Black Stephen", "Esteban", "Esteban the Moor", "Estevan", "Estebanico", "Stephen the Black", "Stephen the Moor", and...

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

male, deceased (1559)
andalusian, Floridacolonial, spanish conquistador, Aluar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, slave, new world
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was an early Spanish explorer of the New World and is remembered as a protoanthropological author. His name is spe...
Jacques Le Moyne

Jacques Le Moyne

male, deceased (1588)
Floridacolonial, Huguenot, new world, artist, Native American, French North America
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues was a French artist and member of Jean Ribault's expedition to the New World. His depictions of Native American,...

René Goulaine de Laudonnière

male, deceased (1574)
Floridacolonial, Manual labour, explorer, French North America, manual labor, Charles IX
René Goulaine de Laudonnière was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline, located in present-day Ja...

Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda

male, 473 years old
Floridacolonial, Huguenot, spanish conquistador, King Carlos, Fort Caroline, sacrificed
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda was a Spanish shipwreck survivor who lived among the Indians of Florida for 17 years. His memoir, written in 1575,...