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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 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 .
Juan Ponce de León II, the first native Puerto Rican governor of Puerto Rico, was the father of Juan Ponce de León y Loayza. In his trip from Spain to Puerto Rico in August 1577, Bishop Diego de Salamanca, not finding a commercial ship heading to Puerto Rico at the time, boarded a Spanish warship headed to Mexico, which dropped him off in the southern coast of Puerto Rico at Guanica.
Pedro Ponce de León (1520-1584), Spanish Benedictine monk; Perla de Leon (born 1952), American artist and photographer; Rafael De Leon aka Roaring Lion (1908–1999), Trinidadian calypsonian; Ramiro de León Carpio (1942–2002), President of Guatemala 1993–1996; Rudy de Leon (born 1952), American Deputy Secretary of Defense
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]
Vicente Pío Osorio de Moscoso y Ponce de León, 13th Count of Altamira, GE, OM, LH (22 July 1801 – 22 February 1864), was a Spanish peer, Head of the House of Osorio.He held 109 titles of nobility, mostly in the peerage of Spain, and was 14 times a Grandee, making him the most titled person in the history of the world.
Isabel Ponce de León (died 1367) was a Spanish noblewoman from the Ponce de León family. She was the daughter of Pedro Ponce de León, lord of Pueblo de Asturias, Cangas and Tineo, and Sancha Gil de Chacim. She was the lady of Villanueva de los Infantes, Castrelo, and Espinosa, and great-great-granddaughter of King Alfonso IX of León.
His title was a Ducal title going back to January 1473 conferred by king Henry IV of Castile. He was the eldest son of 6 children of Antonio Alonso Pimentel, 6th Duke of Benavente, deceased 1633 and María Ponce de León, (1572–1618), daughter of Rodrigo Ponce de León, 3rd Duke of Arcos and the niece of the Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos.