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592 Almaguer, Antonio de. An hidalgo and a secretary to viceroy mendoza, Almaguer was a native of the villa of corral de Almaguer in the provincia of toledo in the modern spanish comunidad of castilla–La mancha. He was married to doña Juana Briseño, the widow of Hernando de torres. sources: icaza, 1: no. 405; Boyd-Bowman, 2: no. 10848. Arellano, Tristán de (Luna y). Luna y Arellano was born at Borovia in the provincia of soria in the modern spanish comunidad of castilla y León about 1515. He arrived in nueva españa in 1530 in the company of don Luis de castilla. By 1546 he was married to the wealthy two-time widow doña isabel de rojas and was a vecino of Antequera in oaxaca. through his wife he acquired several encomiendas. He also had at least one sugar mill and an estancia. in 1559–61 Luna y Arellano served as captain general of an expedition to La florida that ended in fiasco. He died in madrid in 1573 as the sixth mariscal (originally the title given to the judge of the army and later an inherited title) of castilla, despite published statements to the contrary. During the expedition to tierra nueva, he was about 25 years old and was in charge of the main body of the expedition. in this role he led the bulk of the spaniards, their livestock, and many of the mexican indians from culiacán to cíbola, from cíbola to tiguex, and from the buffalo plains back to tiguex. He established the spanish outpost of san Gerónimo at corazones and later moved it to the valley of señora. Arellano became maestre de campo of the entire expedition following an injury to García López de cárdenas in a fall in the summer of 1541. sources: Document 28, fols. 28r, 32v, 53r and 85r; Boyd-Bowman, 2: no. 10523; don tristán de Luna y Arellano, The Luna Papers: Documents Relating to the Expedition of don Tristán de Luna y Arellano for the Conquest of La Florida in 1559–1561, 2 vols., trans. and ed. Herbert ingram priestley (freeport, ny: Books for Libraries press, 1971), 1:xxv, xxvii–lxvii; AGi, méxico, 1064, L.1\1, “informes de los conquistadores,” fol. 165v; victor m. Álvarez, Diccionario de conquistadores (méxico, Df: instituto nacional de Antropología y Historia, 1975), 1:38–40; Doris m. Ladd, The Mexican Nobility at Independence, 1780–1826 (Austin: institute of Latin American studies, university of texas at Austin, 1976), 193–95. Bermejo, Hernando, or Hernando Martín Bermejo. Bermejo was a native of fuente del Arco in the provincia of Badajoz in the modern spanish comunidad of extremadura. He came to nueva españa in 1535 with his cousin Juan martín (Bermejo) and pero martín cano (a possible relative), both of whom who were also on the coronado expedition. Given the date of their licenses to depart, they possibly traveled in the same fleet that carried Antonio de mendoza to nueva españa. prior to and during the expedition to tierra nueva, Bermejo served as principal escribano and secretary to vázquez de coronado. By sometime in late 1544 or early 1545 he was no longer serving in that capacity and had become a vecino in santiago, Guatemala. sources: Pasajeros, 2: no. 2201; H&r, 101 n. 76; Document 12, fol. 7v; Document 27, passim; AGi, Justicia 336, n.1, “probança”; AGi, patronato, 64, r.1, “Juan de Aguilar.” Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez. cabeza de vaca was the son of francisco de vera and grandson of pedro de vera, conqueror of Gran canaria. His mother was doña teresa cabeza de vaca. A native of Jerez de la frontera in the provincia of cádiz in the modern spanish comunidad of Andalucía, he was one of four survivors of the narváez expedition (see narváez, pánfilo de) who returned to nueva españa after seven years of traveling through coastal texas and mexico. His report spurred further exploration of northern new spain. in 1540 he was appointed adelantado of the provincia of río de la plata (Argentina and paraguay). He was arrested in 1544 and sent back to spain to stand trial on charges of abuse of the natives. convicted on a number of those charges, he was, however, soon released from confinement, and the conviction was eventually reversed. He...

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