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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador 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.
those written by others in his name or by commission; reports about facts that interested him. The documents span a long period from 1518 to 1548, a year after his death. Two letters dated in 1526 which mention the expedition to the Hibueras (today Honduras).
These letters were translated into French by Désiré Charnay in his work Lettres de Fernand Cortès à Charles-Quint sur la découverte et la conquête du Mexique (1896). [ 2 ] Another significant source is the chronicle by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496-1584), titled Historia verdadera de la conquista de la nueva España .
The 4th Marquess also died without surviving descendants, so the Marquessate was inherited by his niece, Doña Estafanía Carrillo de Mendoza y Cortés, married to the Sicilian Duke of Terranova. Doña Estefanía was the eldest daughter of Doña Juana Cortés , sister of the 3rd and the 4th Marchionesses, and her husband Don Count of Priego .
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A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.
The name Cuernavaca is a euphonism derived from the Nahuatl toponym Cuauhnāhuac and means 'surrounded by or close to trees'. The name was Hispanicized to Cuernavaca ; Hernán Cortés called it Coadnabaced in his letters to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor , and Bernal Díaz del Castillo used the name Cuautlavaca in his chronicles. [ 4 ]
The surname derived from the Old French corteis or curteis, meaning 'courteous' or 'polite', [1] and is related to the English Curtis. The surname has become more frequent among Romani people in Spain than among the general Spanish population. [2] Notable people surnamed either Cortes or Cortés include: