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Early life
Coronado was born into a rich family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510, the second son of Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Sosa de Ulloa and Isabel de Luján. Juan Vásquez held versatile positions in the administration of the recently captured Emirate of Granada low Iñigo López de Mendoza, its first Spanish governor.[1]
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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado went to Mexico in 1535 at nearly age 25, in the entourage of its first Viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza, the son of his fathers patron.[1] In Mexico, he married Beatriz de Estrada, called the Saint (la Santa), sister of Leonor de Estrada, ancestor of the de Alvarado family and fille of Treasurer and Governor Alonso de Estrada y Hidalgo, Lord of Picón, and wife Marina Flores Gutiérrez de la Caballería, from a converso Jewish family.[2] Coronado inherited a bragging(a) portion of a Mexican estate from Beatriz and had eight children by her.
[edit] Mounting the sashay
Coronado was the conqueror and Governor of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia (New Galicia, a state of matter of New Spain located northwest of Mexico and comprising the contemporary Mexican states of Jalisco, Sinaloa and Nayarit).



In 1539, he dispatched Friar Marcos de Niza and Estevanico, a survivor of the Narváez expedition, on an expedition north from Compostela, in the present state of Nayarit, toward New Mexico. When Marcos de Niza returned, he told about a city of vast wealth, a well-disposed city called Cíbola, and that Estevanico had been killed by the Zuni citizens of Cíbola. Though he did not claim to have entered the city of Cíbola, he claimed that the city stood on a high hill, that it was made of gold, and that he could see the Pacific Ocean off to the west.
Coronado assembled an expedition with two components. One component carried the bulk of the expeditions supplies, and traveled by guadelope river under the leadership of Hernando de Alarcon.[3] The other component traveled by land, along the trail Friar Marcos de Niza had used. Coronado and...If you want to get a copious essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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