Leonor Díaz de Benavides was the mother of Alonso de Benavides, conquistador of Mexico City, and Cristóbal de Benavente, fiscal of the royal audiencia of Mexico

After Fernando Cortés and his army fled from Tenochtitlan during the Noche Triste , they encamped at Tepeaca, where Cortés drafted...

Antonia de Benavides represented the branch of the Benavides family that remained in Mexico. She and her husband Antonio Ruiz de...

A contemporary historian of the era, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera , foreshadowed the capture of the valuable shipment by the French. He...

Alonso de Benavides was a Spanish nobleman, soldier and smelter (fundidor) who departed Spain for the “New World” of the Caribbean Indies on 17 February 1517.