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  1. Personal life. Montemayor served as governor of Nuevo León from 1588 to 1610 after he reconquered the province. He may have been married three times. His probable first wife was Inez Rodríguez, who came with him from Spain to the New World in 1548; [4] then second María de Esquivel, and third Juana Porcalla de la Cerda.

  2. Biografía del conquistador español que fundó Monterrey en 1596 y fue gobernador del Nuevo Reino de León. Conoce su origen, carrera, matrimonios, hijos y controversia con Alberto del Canto.

  3. Diego de Montemayor was an early Spanish explorer, conquistador of New Spain, and founder of Monterrey, Mexico. It is thought that he entered military service soon after his arrival in the New World and eventually was recruited by Luís de Carvajal, the well-connected Spanish Crown officer who had been awarded a large territory named Nuevo Reino de León.

  4. Diego de Montemayor (1530-1611 was a Spanish explorer, officer, and the second governor of Nuevo Leon. He was born in Spain, probably in Málaga or Old Castile, to Juan Montemayor and Mayor Hernandez. Montemayor is credited with the founding of Monterrey, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, on September 20, 1596.

  5. Apr 26, 2022 · The 1611 will of Diego de Montemayor, "El Mozo" (dated 29 April 1611) cites his parents and his wife Elvira de Rentería and includes one photocopied page of the original will. del Hoyo, Eugenio. Historia del Nuevo Reino de León (1577-1723), Fondo Editorial Nuevo León : Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 2005, page 303 ...

    • Elvira de Rentería
    • circa 1585
    • "El Mozo"
    • Mexico
  6. Sep 12, 2019 · The present day city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon was founded on September 20, 1596 by Diego de Montemayor and 12 other companions and their families. This book is about those families and their descendants. Prior to Diego de Montemayor’s founding there had been two prior attempts. One by. Alberto del Canto who named the city Santa Lucia but it ...

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  8. Sep 20, 2021 · The Yale Review · "Diego de Montemayor" by Robin Myers. Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow. Her latest translations include What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M., The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón, and A Whale Is a Country by Isabel Zapata.