Gaspar de Espinosa

Gaspar de Espinosa
Diego Colón
Succeeded by	Sebastián Ramírez de Fuenleal
Lieutenant Governor General of Panamá
In office October 1533 – January 1534
Monarch	Charles I
Preceded by	Diego Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Aguayo
Succeeded by	Pedro Ramírez de Quiñones
Personal details
Born	c. 1484 explorer, conquistador, military, and governor
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Military service
Allegiance	Spanish Empire
Rank	Lieutenant

Gaspar de Espinosa y Luna (

He was born into a family of merchants and bankers, whose business was to direct trade between Flanders and Castilla from Medina de Rioseco. Later settled in Seville, where trade with the Indies were allowed to increase his fortune. Later, his family founded a bank that soon became the benchmark for commercial activity that took place in the rest of Europe and also in the New World.

Travel to the Indies

Already in middle age, he sailed for the Spanish and in 1513 was elected mayor of

He led an expedition to Veragua with Hernando de Soto in 1520.^[2]: 135

He returned to Spain, but soon became ruler of Santo Domingo and Panama, and returned to sail to America.

Finally, went to Peru where he financed with the help of his family, the expedition of Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, and tried, unsuccessfully, reconciliation between the two.^{[1]: 258–259}

Espinosa's family was closely related to the court during the first half of the sixteenth century, it came as much of the funding for the expedition to the Moluccas conducted in 1525, and had previously provided funding for the conquest of Peru sufragrar.

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