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He was looking for adventure in life. Cortes first married Catalina Xuares, a Spanish lady. They did not have any children. After Catalina’s death, Cortes married Dona Juana de Zuniga. From this marriage, they had four children, one son and three daughters.
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Hernán Cortés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca ( ; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a |Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire...
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He was a Spanish Conquistador who defeated and conquered the Aztec Empire. ... Early Life ... Hernando Cortez was born in the small town of Medellin in southwestern Spain in 1485. When he was about 18, he sailed for the island of Hispaniola, then the Spanish headquarters in the West Indies.
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The conquest took place around the year of 1511. Later in Cortez's life Velazquez became the governor of Cuba. Velazquez chose Cortez to lead another expedition to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, but before Cortez left Cuba Velazquez canceled it.
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CORTES, Hernan, or Hernando, soldier, born in Medellin, Province of Estremadura, Spain, in 1485; died near Seville, 2 Dec., 1547. His parents, Martin Cortes and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano, were both of good family, but in reduced circumstances. He then determined upon a life of adventure, and arranged to accompany...
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The life Cortés led in the Antilles was that of the military man of his time, with intervals of rest on such estates as he gradually acquired. He was a favourite of both Ovando and Velazquez, but he quarrelled with the latter, deceived him and made him a mortal enemy.
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Early life Cortés was born in Medellín , in the province of Extremadura , in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain in 1485. His father, Martín Cortés de Monroy, born in 1449 son of Rodrigo or Ruy Fernández de Monroy and wife María Cortés, was an ...
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