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The Ponce de León lineage began with Ponce Vélaz de Cabrera, descendant of count Bermudo Núñez, and Sancha Ponce de Cabrera, [13] daughter of Ponce Giraldo de Cabrera. [ 14 ] Before October 1235, a son of Ponce Vela de Cabrera and his wife Teresa Rodríguez Girón named Pedro Ponce de Cabrera [ 15 ] married Aldonza Alfonso , an illegitimate ...
The family would come to be known by a toponymic surname indicating their derivation from the latter village. One of these traced said this man married with Violante Ponce de León, family of Kings of León with one daughter of a King Alfonso IX of León. A son named Suero and trunk of the lineage fought in the war of succession of the house of ...
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 .
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
Carlos Ponce (born 1972), Puerto Rican actor, singer, and composer; Juan Ponce de Leon II (1524–1591), first Puerto Rican to assume governorship of Puerto Rico; Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon and founder of the city of Ponce in Puerto Rico
Titles bestowed often had the name of a place in Cuba (e.g. Marqués de Pinar del Rio, Conde de Yumurí), the surname of the family (e.g. Marqués de Azpesteguia, Conde de Casa (house) Montalvo) or in remembrance of some Royal favor or deed (e.g. Marqués de la Gratitud, Marqués de la Real Proclamación).
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.
Caparra is an archaeological site in the municipality of Guaynabo in northeastern Puerto Rico. Declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1994, the site contains the remains of the first European settlement and capital of the main island of Puerto Rico, specifically the foundations of the residence of Juan Ponce de León, the first European conquistador and governor of Puerto Rico.