Juan Cano de Saavedra

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Don Juan Cano de Saavedra (* approx. 1502; † September 1572 in Seville ) was a Spanish conquistador from Cáceres in Extremadura .

At the age of 18 Cano traveled to the New World and took part in Pánfilo de Narváez 's expedition against Hernán Cortés . After the defeat of Narváez, Cano later fought for Cortés. In 1531 or early 1532, Cano married Tecuichpoch (Isabel de Moctezuma), an Aztec princess and daughter of Moctezuma II. The couple had five children, Pedro, Gonzalo, Juan, Isabel and Catalina. Juan Cano was one of the wealthy inhabitants of Mexico around the middle of the 16th century. Around 1560, ten years after the death of his wife, he returned to Spain and settled in Seville, where he was a successful businessman. For his son Pedro Cano Moctezuma he established a majorate in 1571 .

Cano de Saavedra is the author of a lost historical report and, in 1532, prompted Franciscans to write the first historical treatise on the history of the Mexican ruling house, which has been preserved in two versions (Relación de Genealogía , Origen de los Mexicanos) . In 1544 he was interviewed by the Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo while traveling through Cuba .

literature

  • Luis Vicente Pelegrí Pedrosa: Las riquezas del Nuevo Mundo: Capitales Indianos en Extremadura. Miguel Angel Muñoz Moya, Sevilla 2002 (digital publication)

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personal data
SURNAME Saavedra, Juan Cano de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish conquistador
DATE OF BIRTH around 1502
DATE OF DEATH September 1572
Place of death Seville