Juan Cano de Saavedra

Don Juan Cano de Saavedra ( * ca 1502, † September 1572 in Seville) was a Spanish conquistador from Cáceres in Extremadura.

At the age of 18 years Cano traveled to the New World and took Pánfilo de Narváez expedition against some Hernán Cortés. After the defeat of Narvaez Cano later fought for Cortés.

In 1531 or early 1532 Cano Tecuichpoch married ( Isabel de Moctezuma ), an Aztec princess and daughter of Moctezuma II The couple had five children: Pedro, Gonzalo, Juan, Isabel and Catalina.

Juan Cano belonged to the mid-16th century to the rich inhabitants of Mexico. Around 1560, ten years after his wife's death, he returned to Spain and settled in Seville, where he was a successful businessman. For his son, Pedro Cano Moctezuma he erected in 1571 a primogeniture.

He is the author of a lost historical report and initiated in 1532 Franciscan monks to draw up the first historical treatise on the history of Mexican dynasty, which is available in two versions ( Relación de Genealogía, Origen de los Mexicanos ). In 1544 he was interviewed in transit to Cuba by the Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.