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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.
Martín Cortés was born in 1522 in a former Aztec palace in New Spain in what is now Mexico City, Mexico.His father, conquistador Hernán Cortés, and his mother, Malintzin, Cortés's guide, interpreter, and companion, named him Martín after the Roman god of war and Cortés's father.
reports about facts that interested him. The documents span a long period from 1518 to 1548, a year after his death. Two letters dated in 1526 which mention the expedition to the Hibueras (today Honduras). These letters are under protection of the Center for the Study of Mexican History of the Foundation Carlos Slim.
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 ...
Colonial era tapestry depicting the Conquest of Mexico located in the Palace of Cortes. After Cortés's death, his son Don Martin, as the new Marquéz del Valle de Oaxaca, inherited this palace. From 1629 to 1747, the family gradually abandoned it, and the building was used as an ironworks, tannery, and textile workshop. [6]
Buried in the Mexico City palace of Hernan Cortes is a mysterious, centuries-old skeleton. ... A new placard now correctly identifies the centuries-old remains as those of a “Tlahuica Woman ...
La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780394540696. Lockhart, James (1994). Spanish Peru, 1532–1560, A Social History (2nd ed.). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-14164-6. López de Gómara, Francisco (1964). Cortés, The Life of the Conqueror by his Secretary. Translated and edited ...
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