Gil González Dávila
Gil González Dávila or Gil González de Ávila (b. 1480 – 21 April 1526) was a Spanish conquistador and the first European to explore present-day Nicaragua. Early career González Dávila first appears in historical records in 1508, when he received a royal commission to examine accounts and tax records of estates. He probably traveled soon afterward to Santo Domingo for his assignment, and to establish himself. In 1511, from Valladolid, Spain, he was given the title of Accountant of Hispaniola or contador. By 1514, the Hispaniola treasury staff put in place by Ferdinand, included Gil, who had replaced Cristóbal de Cuéllar as contador, Miguel de Pasamonte, who had been named treasurer general of the Indies in April 1508, and Juan Martinez de Ampies as factor. His enhanced position enabled him to become a teacher and he soon had an estate with over 200 Indian slaves. In 1518, González delivered a report to Charles V which was highly critical of the colonial management ...
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Gil González Dávila (historian)
Gil González Dávila (1570–1658) was a Spanish archivist, courtier and chronicler.Celia Parcero Torre"Gil González Dávila" '' Diccionario biográfico español''. Retrieved 16 December 2022. Life He was born and died at Ávila. He spent his early years in Rome, where he was educated at the residence of Cardinal Deza. He returned to Spain when he was 20 and settled in Salamanca. He was called to Madrid and made historiographer to the Crown of Castile The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accessi ... in 1612, and for the Indies in 1641. Of his numerous works, the most valuable are his ''Teatro de las Grandezas des Madrid'' (Madrid, 1623, sqq.), and his ''Teatro Eclesiastico'', descriptive of the metropolitan churches and cathedrals of Castile, with lives of the prelates (Madrid ...
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Pedro De Alvarado
Pedro de Alvarado (; c. 1485 – 4 July 1541) was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala.Lovell, Lutz and Swezey 1984, p. 461. 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. He is considered the conquistador of much of Central America, including Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Character and appearance Pedro de Alvarado was flamboyant and charismatic, and was both a brilliant military commander and a cruel, hardened man. His hair and beard were red, which reminded the Aztecs of their sun-god (often painted red) Tōnatiuh. He was handsome, and presented an affable appearance, but was volatile and quick to anger.Burland 1973, p. 216. He was ruthless in his dealings with the indigenous peoples he set out to conquer. Historians judge that his greed drove him to excessive cruelty,Recinos 1986, p. 205. and his ...
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Salazar De La Pedrada
Salazar may refer to: People and fictional characters * Salazar (surname), a surname and list of persons and fictional characters with the surname ** António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 * Salazar Slytherin, a character in the ''Harry Potter'' novels Places * Salazar, Burgos, a village * Salazar de las Palmas, a municipality in the department of North Santander, Colombia * Salazar Valley, a valley in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Navarre, Spain Aircraft * ''Salazar'', a de Havilland DH.88 Comet aircraft See also * ''Trimeresurus salazar'', a pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin * Vila Salazar, former name for N'dalatando N'dalatando, formerly Vila Salazar, is a town, with a population of 161,584 (2014), and a commune in the municipality of Cazengo, province of Cuanza Norte, Angola. It is also the seat of the Cazengo municipality and the provincial capital. H ...