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Hernan Cortes – The Conquistador of the Aztecs; Informational Link Blog about the History of Cortes, the Aztecs along with a variety of sources, pictures and educational resources; Latin American studies center, material on Cortés; Fernand Cortez opera by Gaspare Spontini, Jean-Paul Penin
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]
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.
Buried in the Mexico City palace of Hernan Cortes is a mysterious, centuries-old skeleton. ... according to a Jan. 18 news release from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). ...
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
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 ...
Pedro de Alvarado (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ðe alβaˈɾaðo]; c. 1485 – 4 July 1541) was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. [1] He participated in the conquest of Cuba, in Juan de Grijalva's exploration of the coasts of the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, and in the conquest of the Aztec Empire led by Hernán Cortés.