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Memorial to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in Medina del Campo, Spain. 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 Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of ...
Marin married Maria de Mendoza, who herself was related to the second wife of Hernán Cortés. Marin had eleven children. [3] Marin, according to the Bernal Diaz del Castillo's memoir, was a kind-heart gentleman even during military excursions where captured enemies would often be taken as slaves.
Juana also remained in Puebla, along with most of the women. Both Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Francisco López de Gómara narrate how Salazar tried to persuade the wives of the conquerors that their husbands are dead and they must all remarry. Juana refused to believe this news without proof, and resisted the attempts of Salazar to take over ...
Several plants described in the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis.Chicomácatl is the last one on this page (left to right). Bernal Díaz del Castillo refers to the ruler of Cempoala as "Fat Cacique" in his book Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (True history of the conquest of New Spain), due to his physical aspect.
According to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Puertocarrero was one of only 14 Spanish horseman in the Battle of Centla, the first military engagement of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. [ 1 ] Soon after arriving on the eastern shore of Mexico with a gift of a grey mare from Cortés, Hernández was elected alcayde along with Francisco de Montejo of ...
When José Enrique Bernal Castillo made his asylum claims to the federal government, the last thing he ever imagined was that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would accidentally publish his ...
Born in Spain, her date of birth and of death are unknown. She was known as "The Matron" of the conquest among her companions. Her name is mentioned in the letters of Francisco Cervantes de Salazar and Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Her husband was Miguel Rodríguez de Guadalupe, of whom not much is known.