María Estrada

María de Estrada was born in Spain, which has prepared and participated in fighting in the early 16th century in the conquest of Mexico and Tenochtitlan. Your date of birth is not known, they should be but born after 1475 in Seville; her brother Francisco is said to have taken part in an expedition of Christopher Columbus as a cabin boy.

They even reached the New World in 1509 and, according to a shipwreck some years lived among the locals in Cuba. Almost all male castaways to have been murdered following after initial friendly recording. In 1513, she was of conquistadors who tried to conquer Cuba, tracked and delivered. Probably María de Estrada was one of the first Europeans who had acculturated in the new world. One of her liberators Pedro Sanchez Farfan she should have married. It should be noted in this context that one Alonso de Estrada was staying in the Expedition Corps of Hernán Cortés and there held a higher rank. Whether passed kinship connections is unclear (possibly husband).

Pedro Sanchez Farfan also accompanied Cortés to Mexico in 1519. María de Estrada arrived probably in April 1520 the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez in the Aztec Empire and survived on July 1, 1520 the dams fighting the Noche Triste become known as escape from Tenochtitlan. Also at the adjoining this flight battle of Otumba took María de Estrada with a sword fighting part. The fully -armed woman must have made ​​a great impression on the Aztecs, because they gave her the nickname Mother of God.

Chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo as mention that she has been the only Spanish woman who has participated in the conquest. You should have been assigned with her husband larger land holdings near Hueyapan below.

References

  • Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Georg Adolf Narcissus (ed.): History of the Conquest of Mexico, Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-458-32767-3.
  • Gloria Duran: Maria Estrada, ISBN 1-891270 -01- X ( historical novel Mexican author )
  • Conquistador
  • Military person (Spain )
  • Born in the 15th century
  • Died in the 16th century
  • Woman
  • Spanish colonial history
  • Military history of Latin America
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