Tristán de Luna y Arellano
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Tristán de Luna y Arellano (1510 – September 16, 1573[1]) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador of the 16th century.[2][3]
Biography
Born in Borobia, Spain, to a noble family, he came to New Spain, and was sent on an expedition to colonize Florida in 1559. He was the cousin of the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, and of Juana de Zúñiga, wife of Hernán Cortés.[2] In August of that year, he established an ephemeral colony at modern-day Pensacola, the earliest multi-year European settlement in the continental United States.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
During his years in
The party anchored in Pensacola Bay (known as "Ochuse" since the expeditions of Francisco Maldonado during the 1539–1543 expedition of
The relief got the colony through the winter, but the supplies expected in the spring had not arrived by September. In mid-February, Luna ordered most of the colonists to move inland to Nanipacana, where they remained through the end of June, 1560. Lack of food at Nanipacana ultimately spurred Luna to send a 200-man detachment upriver to the Coosa chiefdom (Coça) in Northwest Georgia, where they remained through November before returning to Pensacola Bay. Back at Ochuse on Pensacola Bay, in part as a result of increasing tensions between Luna and his remaining officers and men, the Viceroy finally replaced Luna with a new governor, Ángel de Villafañe, who arrived in Pensacola Bay in April 1561 and offered to take all who wished to leave on an expedition to Cuba and Santa Elena.[9] Luna was granted permission to leave, taking a ship to Havana and ultimately Spain, though he ultimately spent the rest of his life in Mexico, where he died in 1573. The Luna settlement was occupied through August, 1561 by a detachment of fifty men under Captain Biedma, left there by Villafañe in case further orders arrived from Viceroy Velasco;[9] after Villafañe picked them up and finally returned to Veracruz, the Pensacola area was not populated again by Europeans until 1698, when the Spanish founded Presidio Santa Maria de Galve on the modern Naval Air Station Pensacola.
The site of Luna's colony was re-discovered by local historian Tom Garner in October 2015, and is being investigated by the University of West Florida archaeology program under archaeologist and principal investigator John Worth.[7][12]
References
- ^ http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/autoridad/143769, but see also 1514 alternative http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/16032/tristan-de-luna-y-arellano
- ^ a b Herbert Ingram Priestley, Tristan de Luna: Conquistador of the Old South: A Study of Spanish Imperial Strategy (1936). http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/uwf%3A14851#page/191/mode/1up
- JSTOR 40712896.)
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- ^ http://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/uwf:8101#page/spine/mode/2up The Luna Papers, Volume II
- ^ Padilla, Augustin Davila (1625). Historia de la fundacion y discurso da la provincia, de Santiago de Mexico de la orden de predicadores por las vidas de sus varones insignes y casos notables de Nueva Espana. Por el maestro Fray Augustin Davila Padilla al principe de Espana Don Felipe nuestro senor. Edicion segunda (in Spanish). en casa de Ivan de Meerbeque.
- ^ a b "Luna Settlement | University of West Florida".
- ^ a b "John Worth – Spanish Florida – Pensacola 450th". uwf.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-08-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Pinson, Steve "The Tristan de Luna Expedition". From de-luna.com. Retrieved January 9, 2007.
- ^ John R. Bratten and John E. Worth "Shipwrecked History: Spanish Ships Found In Pensacola Harbor," American Heritage, Summer 2009.
- The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
- ^ St. Myer, Thomas (2015). "Luna's colony unearthed in heart of Pensacola". Pensacola News Journal. Retrieved December 18, 2015.