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Ponce de León reached Puerto Rico on 19 October 1513 after having been away for almost eight months. The other ship, after further explorations returned safely on 20 February 1514. [92] Although Ponce de León is widely credited with the discovery of Florida, he almost certainly was not the first European to reach the peninsula.
The descendants of Ponce de León's family lived in La Casa Blanca for more than 250 years when in 1779 the Spanish Army took control of it. Finally, the American military moved into La Casa Blanca in 1898. [6] [7] The southern city of Ponce is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of the island's first governor. [8]
Ponce de León II was sent by the Spanish Crown to establish a settlement on the island of Trinidad in 1569. He founded the "town of the Circumcision", probably around modern Laventille. In 1570, this settlement was abandoned, possibly because of the raids by the Caribs, which resulted in the death of Ponce de Leon's son. According to some ...
Pedro Ponce de León Dom Pedro Ponce de León teaching a pupil (Detail of a monument in Madrid, Spain.). Dom Pedro Ponce de Leon, O.S.B., (1520, Sahagún – 29 August 1584, Oña) was a Spanish Benedictine monk who is often credited as being "the first teacher for the deaf".
In 1508, Juan Ponce de León founded the original Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico at Caparra, named after the abandoned ancient Roman village of Cáparra in the province of Cáceres, Spain, the birthplace of then-governor of Spain's Caribbean territories Nicolás de Ovando., [3] Today it is known as the Pueblo Viejo barrio of Guaynabo, just to the west of the present San Juan metropolitan area.
The House of Ponce de León was an important aristocratic family in León in Spain during the middle ages. It arose from the marriage of Pedro Ponce de Cabrera and Aldonza Alfonso de León , illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso IX of Leon .
Spain based her long-standing claim to Florida on the voyage of discovery of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, as well as four other expeditions of exploration. Menéndez, one of the foremost naval officers of his day, had been sent out by King Philip II of Spain with a fleet and 800 Spanish settlers with specific instructions to remove the French ...
Santervás de Campos is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. As of 2009 [update] , the municipality has a population of 137 inhabitants and is known as the birthplace of Juan Ponce de León .