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    Francisco de Montejo (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ðe monˈtexo]; c. 1479 – c. 1553) was a Spanish conquistador in Mexico and Central America. Francisco de Montejo...
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  • Francisco de Montejo (c. 1479–c. 1553), Spanish conquistador. Francisco de Montejo may also refer to: Francisco de Montejo the Younger (1502–1565), his...
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    Francisco de Montejo y León (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ðe monˈtexoj leˈon]; 1508 – 8 February 1565), known as "the Younger" (el Mozo), was a Spanish...
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  • entire peninsula to central Mexico. Montejo pacified Tabasco with the aid of his son, also named Francisco de Montejo. In 1531 the Spanish moved their base...
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    Paseo de Montejo is a notable avenue of Mérida, México. It is named after Francisco de Montejo, the Spanish conquistador who founded the city in 1542,...
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    Francisco de Montejo (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ðe monˈtexo]; 1514–1572), known as "the Nephew" (el Sobrino) was a Spanish conquistador. At 13 years old, he...
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    became important, San Pedro de Puerto Caballos (later to become San Pedro Sula) and Gracias a Dios. In 1537, Francisco de Montejo was appointed governor....
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    Canul Maya refused to submit and Montejo the Younger sent his cousin against them (also called Francisco de Montejo); Montejo the Younger remained in Campeche...
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    Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ˈβaθkeθ ðe koɾoˈnaðo]; 1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer...
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    had a son Francisco Martín de Alcántara, who was at the conquest of Peru with his half-brother from its inception. Through his father, Francisco was a second...
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    Aztec Empire; by Francisco de Montejo "el Adelantado", his son Francisco de Montejo y León "el Mozo" and his nephew, Francisco de Montejo "el Sobrino". El...
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    conquest of Yucatan. On 8 December 1526, the Salamancan conquistador Francisco de Montejo, who had participated in the Grijalva and Cortés expeditions from...
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    fall of Zaculeu, the Mam Maya capital, in 1525. Francisco de Montejo and his son, Francisco de Montejo the Younger, launched a long series of campaigns...
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  • built on the ruins of this Mayan settlement and founded in 1542 by Francisco de Montejo. Ligorred Perramon, Josep (2005). "T'Hó: The Ancestral Mérida". www...
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    in Central America during the 1530s, when he led resistance to Francisco de Montejo's attempts to conquer and incorporate the region into the province...
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    Grijalva. Other members included Francisco de Montejo, Pedro de Alvarado, Juan Díaz, Francisco Peñalosa, Alonso de Ávila,: 50  Alonso Hernández, Julianillo...
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    Valladolid in Yucatán was established by Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo's nephew on May 27, 1543, at some distance from the current town,...
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    Sagrado remained a place of pilgrimage. In 1526, Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo (a veteran of the Grijalva and Cortés expeditions) successfully petitioned...
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    de Alderete (Perú, 1535–1540; Chile, 1550–1552) Diego Hernández de Serpa (Venezuela, 1510–1570) Juan de Grijalva (Yucatán, 1518) Francisco de Montejo...
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    conquistadors, including Cristóbal de Olid, Gonzalo de Sandoval and Diego de Ordaz. Also aboard were Francisco de Montejo and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, veterans...
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    ISBN 978-0-8223-8750-3. *Juan de Samano (9 October 2009). "Relacion de los primeros descubrimientos de Francisco Pizarro y Diego de Almagro, 1526". bloknot...
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    Empire. On 8 December 1526, Charles I of Spain granted Francisco de Montejo a capitulación de conquista or letters patent for the conquest of the Mayan...
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    further, de Soto, upon Pedro Arias Dávila's death, left his estates in Nicaragua. Bringing his own men on ships which he hired, de Soto joined Francisco Pizarro...
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    Almaraz, 5th Lord of Monroy. According to his biographer and chaplain, Francisco López de Gómara, Cortés was pale and sickly as a child. At the age of 14, he...
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    he did not convince Gonzalo. According to Robert S. Chamberlain, Francisco de Montejo discovered that Guerrero was the military captain of Chectumal. He...
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    1540): Francisco de Montejo. Adelantado. (1540 - 1546): Francisco de Montejo the Younger. Captain General. (1546 - 1549): Francisco de Montejo. Adelantado...
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  • mare from Cortés, Hernández was elected alcayde along with Francisco de Montejo of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. After the Battle of Centla at Potonchán, Cortés...
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    crowned by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro. After his death, Manco Inca Yupanqui joined Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro in Cajamarca. When Pizarro's...
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    since then called "Grijalva" in Tabasco, in this expedition came Francisco de Montejo for the first time. In the third expedition (1519) commanded by Hernán...
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    for organizing armed resistance to the Spanish conquistadors under Francisco de Montejo the Younger, but was defeated in a battle at the ruins of T’ho in...
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