Hernán Cortés

Also known as Hernando Corteés, marqués del Valle, Hernán, marqués del Valle de Oaxaca Cortés, Hernaán Corteéz, Fernando Cortees, Hernando Cortees Valle de Oaxaca, Hernando Corteés Valle de Oaxaca, Hernando Corteés, Hernan Cortes

Spanish conquistador

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Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who led the military conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico in the early 16th century. His expedition and the subsequent collapse of Aztec rule fundamentally reshaped the Americas, leading to the establishment of Spanish colonial control over Mexico and resulting in massive cultural, political, and demographic changes for the indigenous populations.

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Born: 1485
Died: 1547
Works: 105

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Pleito del Marqués del Valle contra Nuño de Guzmán, sobre aprovechamiento de pueblos de la provincia de Avalos
Briefe des Ferdinand Cortes an Kayser Carl den 5ten über die Eroberung von Mexico
Die Eroberung Mexikos
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Commons category: Hernán Cortés
date of birth: 1485-00-00
Commons gallery: Hernán Cortés
name in native language: Hernán Cortés y Pizarro
start of work period: 1504-00-00
Commons Creator page: Hernán Cortés
date of death: 1547-12-02
birth name: Hernán Cortés y Pizarro Altamirano

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Cartas y relaciones de Hernán Cortés al emperador Carlos V

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Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (c. 1485 – 2 December 1547) was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an encomienda (the right to the labour of certain subjects). For a short time, he served as alcalde (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, which he partly funded. His enmity with the governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment, an order which Cortés ignored.