Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua)

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There were two Spanish conquistadores at the start of the 16th-century named "Francisco Hernández de Córdoba". The one described here founded Nicaragua. The other led a 1517 expedition which provided the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula: see Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador). Neither of their birth dates are known.
Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba
Nicaraguan Postage, 1924
A statue of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in Granada

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Spanish:

córdoba
in his memory.

Córdoba was an officer of Pedro Arias Dávila, known also as Pedrarias Dávila.[1]: 43  Hernán Cortés and Hernán Ponce de León supported Córdoba during the conquest of Nicaragua in 1524,: 135  in return for support against Cristóbal de Olid. Dávila considered Córdoba an insurrectionist and a traitor, and finally captured and beheaded him.: 71, 80 

His remains were found in 2000 in León Viejo, Nicaragua.[2]

References

  1. ISBN 9780822321460
  2. ^ Article on Latinamericanstudies.org

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