Juan de Esquivel
Juan de Esquivel (* 1480 in Seville , Spain , † 1513 in Jamaica ) was a Spanish conquistador . He took possession of the island of Jamaica for the Spanish crown and was the island's first governor. Juan de Esquivel was the founder of the first settlements under the Spanish Crown in the New World .
biography
Juan de Esquivel was born in 1480 in Seville, today's capital of the autonomous region of Andalusia , in the province of Seville in Spain of the same name .
At the age of 13 he accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second trip to the American continent. On November 28, 1493 they reached the island of Hispaniola , where Juan de Esquivel took part in the conquest of the island and the subjugation of the Taíno tribe . He stayed there for a while.
When Nicolás de Ovando was appointed governor of Hispaniola in 1502 , Juan de Esquivel rose to lieutenant. Two years later, at the head of 400 soldiers, he was sent to the province of Higüey, which was under the direction of the Taíno chief Cotubanamá. They subjugated the Indians and drove them into the mountains. Esquivel founded the city of Higüey in the region . This is the capital of today's province of La Altagracia , in the Dominican Republic . After further uprisings that were bloodily suppressed, he founded another city called Santa Cruz del El Seibo .
In 1509 Juan de Esquivel and 70 soldiers took the island of Jamaica under the ownership of the Spanish Crown in his name. In the same year he founded a colony on the north coast of the island, where Christopher Columbus was shipwrecked in 1503. The settlement was named Sevilla la Nueva after his birthplace in Spain. It was the first settlement under the Spanish Crown on the island and the third settlement in the New World. The city is now called Saint Ann's Bay . Juan de Esquivel became the first governor of Jamaica and was the first to introduce cattle, pigs and horses to the island. He is also the founder of the island's first port facility and shipyard at the site of what is now the city of Old Harbor Bay .
Juan de Esquivel died in Jamaica in the fall of 1513.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Juan de Esquivel biography ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (EnCaribe.org)
- ↑ a b c d Juan de Esquivel, Conquistador de Jamaica (esquivel.blogia.com)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Esquivel, Juan de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish conquistador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1480 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seville , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1513 |
| Place of death | Jamaica |