Cristóbal de Olid
Cristóbal de Olid (Spanish: conquest of the Aztec Empire and present-day Honduras.
Lienzo de Tlaxcala
Born in
Purépechas
.
During the
Siege of Tenochtitlan, Cristóbal was one of Cortés' key captains, playing a critical role in the capture of Xochimilco.[2]: 315, 317, 319, 333, 339, 340–343 Cristobal was the Texcoco camp commander during the trial of Antonio de Villafana, for his plot to assassinate Cortés.[2]: 351 Cristobal commanded one of four forces under Cortés, and acted as quartermaster.[2]: 356, 358, 360–363, 383 Olid helped save Cortés at one point, when he was seized by the Aztecs in one of the causeway battles.[2]
: 380
Cortés sent Olid to Michoacan, after he had married a Portuguese lady.[2]: 413
In 1522, Olid led Spanish soldiers with Tlaxcalan allies in the conquests of Jalisco and Colima in West Mexico .[3]
In 1523, Cortés made Olid the leader of an expedition to
Francisco de Las Casas against Olid with two warships. Despite the fact that both these ships were destroyed in a storm
and many of his soldiers defected to Olid, Las Casas defeated Olid in battle and captured him.
Accounts of how Olid died vary; Bernal Díaz del Castillo asserts in his Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de Nueva España that Las Casas had him beheaded at Naco, while Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas wrote that Olid's own soldiers rose up against and then murdered him.
See also
References
- ^ Thomas, Hugh (2010). The Golden Empire. Random House. p. 67.
- ^ ISBN 0140441239
- ^ "Cristóbal de Olid, 1522". Archived from the original on 2008-09-13. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
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