Pelinor was a
Guanche mencey
The Guanches were the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean some west of Africa.
It is believed that they may have arrived on the archipelago some time in the first millennium BCE. The Guanches were the only native ...
king of
Menceyato de Adeje
Adeje was one of the 9 menceyatos guanches (native kingdoms) that had divided the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) before the arrival of the conquering Spaniards and occupied the present day towns of Guía de Isora, Adeje, Santiago de ...
at the time of the conquest of
Tenerife
Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitants as of Janu ...
in the fifteenth century.
Alongside the menceyes of
Abona and
Güímar, Pelinor negotiated peace around 1490 with
Pedro de Vera
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning " ...
, Governor of
Gran Canaria, ratifying a treaty with
Alonso Fernández de Lugo at the beginning of the conquest in 1494. Once the war ended, Pelinor was the only mencey not brought to the Peninsula to be presented to the
Catholic Monarchs.
La Conquista de Tenerife (1494-1496)
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As a mencey who actively supported the conquerors in the peace negotiations, he was amply rewarded by the new authorities. He received the entire ''Valle de Masca'' (Masca Valley), 30 acres of land with water on the "''Río de Chasna''" (''Valle de San Lorenzo'') and another 100 acres in the ''Valle de Santiago'' - both pieces of land in the former domains of Adeje. Also, his family was granted a coat of arms.
Pelinor died around 1505.
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1505 deaths