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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.
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".
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 was born in Córdoba, Andalusia in 1510. [2] He was educated at the University of Salamanca and then ordained as a priest. In 1546, Charles I of Spain appointed Ponce de León to the Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition. On 27 June 1550, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Julius III as Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo.
Lotlot de Leon (born 1971), Filipina actress; Luis de León (1527–1591), Spanish lyric poet and Augustinian friar; Luis Ponce de León (governor of New Spain) briefly the governor of New Spain, from July 4, 1526, to July 16, 1526; Mateo de la Mata Ponce de León ([?]-1720), Spanish colonial officer, interim viceroy of Peru 1716
Rodrigo Ponce de León was a Castilian military leader who was granted the title of Duke of Cádiz in 1484. After the death of the first duke in 1492, the Catholic Monarchs negotiated with Francisca Ponce de León y de la Fuente regarding the abolition of the Marquisate and Duchy of Cádiz, reinstating the city and the titles to the crown after her death.
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 .
Luis Ponce de León was an educated man and a knight of Cordoba.He was a friend and aide of the corregidor of Toledo, Martín de Córdoba, conde de Alcaudete.. Ponce's appointment came in 1525 after news about serious difficulties in New Spain began reaching the court of Charles I of Spain and the Council of the Indies. [3]