Hernán Cortés

male, deceased (1547)
spanish conquistador, conquistador, City founder, castile, Spanish nobility, Colonial Mexico…SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas, spanish, Spanish conquistadore, 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…Calendar of Saint, spanish, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas
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...
Gonzalo Pizarro

Gonzalo Pizarro

male, deceased (1546)
spanish conquistador, Greed, lima, new world, cuzco, SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas…spanish, Spanish conquistadore, Spanish conquest of Peru, Battle of Cajamarca, Conquest of Peru
Gonzalo Pizarro (1502 - April 10, 1548) was a Spanish conquistador and younger half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Inca Empire.

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba

male, deceased (1526)
spanish conquistador, granada, spanish, cordoba, SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas, execution…Spanish conquistadore, founder of nicaragua
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba is usually reputed as the founder of Nicaragua, and in fact he founded two important Nicaraguan cities, Granada an...

Manco Inca Yupanqui

male, deceased (1544)
spanish, Manqu Inka Yupanki, cusco, inca, conquistador, quechua…SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas
Manco Inca Yupanqui ("Manqu Inka Yupanki" in Quechua) was the last Inca Emperor of Peru. He was also known as "Manco II" and "Manco Capac II"...

Hernándo Pizarro

male, deceased (1608)
Pizarro brother, spanish conquistador, inca, new world, cuzco, SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas…spanish, Spanish conquistadore, Battle of Las Salinas
Hernando Pizarro (1508-1608?) was a Spanish conquistador and one of the Pizarro brothers who ruled over Peru. Hernando was born in Trujillo,...
Luis de Velasco

Luis de Velasco

male, deceased (1564)
spanish, Colonial Mexico, SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas, viceroy, cholula, puebla…National Autonomous University of Mexico, kingdom of Navarre, 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...
Guaman Poma

Guaman Poma

male
Chronicler, Human Poma, death, SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno…Spanish Empire, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, spanish, spanish language
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, best known as Guaman Poma or Human Poma, (c. 1550 - after 1616) was an indigenous Peruvian who became disillusioned...
Juan Pizarro II

Juan Pizarro II

male, deceased (1536)
spanish conquistador, garrison, francisco pizarro, battle, lima, new world…SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas, spanish, Spanish conquistadore, Spanish killed in action
Juan Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who accompanied his brothers Francisco, Gonzalo and Hernándo Pizarro for the conquest of Peru in 1532. I...
Blasco Núñez Vela

Blasco Núñez Vela

male, deceased (1546)
spanish, SpanishcolonizationoftheAmericas, viceroy, Colonial Peru, Charles I, encomienda
Blasco Núñez Vela was the first Spanish viceroy of Peru, from May 15, 1544 to January 18, 1546. He was charged by King Charles I with the en...