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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
Six of the First Twelve, mural in the ex-convento of Huexotzinco. Motolinia is depicted fourth from the left. The Twelve Apostles of Mexico, the Franciscan Twelve, or the Twelve Apostles of New Spain, were a group of twelve Franciscan missionaries who arrived in the newly-founded Viceroyalty of New Spain on May 13 or 14, 1524 and reached Mexico City on June 17 or 18, [1] with the goal of ...
Upon meeting, Hernan Cortés claimed to be the representative of the queen, Doña Juana of Castile, and her son, King Carlos I of Castile and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, all Spanish royalty, had then made an appearance. [81] Sahagún reports that Moctezuma welcomed Cortés to Tenochtitlan on the Great Causeway, Xolac.
The marriage between Luisa de Abrego, a free black domestic servant from Seville and Miguel Rodríguez, a white Segovian conquistador in 1565 in St. Augustine (Spanish Florida), is the first known and recorded Christian marriage anywhere in the continental United States. [40] The Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition explored New Mexico in 1581 ...
Maya temples were cast down and a Christian cross was put up on one of them. [75] At Cozumel, Cortés heard rumours of bearded men on the Yucatán mainland, who he presumed were Europeans. [80] Cortés sent out messengers to them and was able to rescue the shipwrecked Gerónimo de Aguilar, who had been enslaved by a Maya lord.
The evangelization of Mexico. Spanish conquerors saw it as their right and their duty to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism. Because Catholicism had played such an important role in the Reconquista (Catholic reconquest) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, the Catholic Church in essence became another arm of the Spanish government, since the crown was granted sweeping powers ...
The deeply pious Isabella saw the expansion of Spain's sovereignty inextricably paired with the evangelization of non-Christian peoples, the so-called "spiritual conquest" with the military conquest. Pope Alexander VI in a 4 May 1493 papal decree, Inter caetera , divided rights to lands in the Western Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal on ...
Hernando Cortés, 3rd Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca 1560-1602: Juana Cortés, Countess of Priego d. 1612: Pedro Cortés, 4th Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca 1566-1629: Estefanía Carrillo de Mendoza, Duchess of Terranova, 5th Marchioness of the Valley of Oaxaca 1595-1653: Giovanna Tagliavia d'Aragona, Duchess of Monteleone 5th Duchess of ...