Zumarraga

Zumarraga
Juan
Religious
Spain
Other régions d'Spain
Noble
1521-1530
Death in India
Natural death
Mexico

zumarragaBorn in durango (Vizcaya) in Spain in 1468, died in Mexico the June 3, 1548, franciscan priest, he was the first Bishop of Mexico, where he was appointed by Charles V in 1528. It had been noted in Spain, where it had been burned in the basque country, a significant number of witches.

It also notes in Mexico, where it is known by the cruelty that made proof with regard to the indians, as the representative of the Inquisition.

In the stakes where was sent good number of recalcitrants, he burned also thousands of documents from ancient Mexico relating to the ritual or medicinal use from the peyote cactus and other plants.

Its abuses, including against the Spaniards, who were condemned and that he had confiscate the land, were the subject of numerous complaints, which was added the relations that had been with indigenous women, were not enough to prevent appointed, by Pope Paul III, as the first Archbishop of Mexico in 1543.

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Zarate

Zarate
Conquistador
Spain
Unknown
Inconnue
Death in Europe
Natural death
Peru

 

Originating in Orduña (Vizcaya) in the Basque Country, it is part of the troupe of Pizarro who makes prisoner the Inca Atahualpa at Cajamarca. Writer and an accountant, he benefited from a full share of gold and silver in the distribution of the ransom of atahualpa (4,440 pesos of gold and 182 marcs of silver).

He is one of the first three spaniards with Martin Bueno and Pedro Moguer to see the city of Cusco, the capital of the Inca empire.

 

He is the author of two chronics unfortunately missing on the conquest of Peru, and on the road between Cajamarca and Cusco.

He is installed in Cusco in 1534, but returned to Spain in 1535, in his natal Basque Country, where it has its trace in 1538 on the occasion of a testimony he gives with regard to the legacy of Juan of Beranga.

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Vespucci

Vespucci
Amerigo
Marin discoverer
Other countries
Other
1492-1500
Death in Europe
Natural death
The islands,Tirm ground,The Rio de la plata,Other-territories

vespucciAmerigo Vespucci was a merchant, an italian sailer, at the service of the King of Spain and then of the King of Portugal Manual I. He was born in Florence on March 9, 1451, and died in Seville on February 22, 1512.

He is regarded as the first European to have understood that the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus, were a new continent, a New World. It Is the geman cartographer, Martin Waldseemuller, that in a publication from 1507, published in Saint-Die-des-Vosges, France, which used his name to designate the new continent. Vespucci was immediately sought to usurper, although the printed text to Sain-Die (la Lettera), has been shown to be subsequently a false, written by a florentine.

In fact, Christopher Columbus and him were friends until the death of the first, in 1506, and there was never any dispute between them.

Amerigo Vespucci made several trips to the Indies and sailed along the coast of the south american continent until the Tierra del Fuego. Became responsible for many astronomical records and the certainty that the territories discovered by Christopher Columbus, were not in Asia, but rather a New World.

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Yépez

Yépez
Juan
Religious
Spain
1531-1540
Death in India
Diseases Accident
Peru

 Dominican priest among the six who came to the Indies with Pizarro, he undertook the journey to the south, but died of disease in Coaque, before arriving in Peru.

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Vera

Vera
Andres
Religious
Spain
Tirm ground,The South Sea

Chaplain of the expedition of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, he intones a Te Deum after that Balboa has taken possession of the Pacific Ocean to the King of Spain, the September 25, 1513.

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