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Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedro Arias de Ávila (c. 1440 – 6 March 1531; often Pedro Arias Dávila or Pedrarias Dávila) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator. He led the first great Spanish expedition to the mainland of the New World. There, he served as governor of Panama (1514–1526) and Nicaragua (1527–1531), and founded Panama ...
Founder: Panama City. Pedro Arias Dávila (born 1440?, Segovia, Castile [Spain]—died March 6, 1531, León, New Spain [now in Nicaragua]) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator who led the first Spanish expedition to found permanent colonies on the American mainland. A soldier in his youth, Arias Dávila served with distinction in ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
When Pedro Arias Dávila was born in 1420, in Diócesis de Segovia, Spain, his father, Diego Davila Arias, was 21 and his mother, Elvira Gonzalez de Avila, was 20. He married Maria Ortiz de Valdivieso de Cota in 1438, in Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters.
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- Composition of The Expeditions
- Geographical Origins
- Waves of Immigration
- Social, Professional, and Cultural Background
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The first expedition was formed at the beginning of 1517. Commanded by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, it was composed of three ships and 110 men from Tierra Firme, Santo Domingo, and Cuba. Most of them had no money, and joined forces to explore and raid the West Indies.9 A fleet of three caravels and one brigantine comprised the second expedition....
With the creation of the Casa de la Contratación in 1503 and its establishment in Seville, voyages to the New World began to be documented. Indeed, the civil servants of that institution were required to record in the departure registers the complete names of the passengers, their geographical origins, even their occupation and duties, and to deliv...
The departures for the New World were not a constant flow. A mere review of the arrival dates of conquistadores during the “Antillean period” (1492–1519) shows different migration waves and distinguishes six very different stages (see figure 3): 1. The Columbian era, 1492–1502 (0.4 percent). 2. The Dominican age, which really started with Nicolás d...
Contrary to widespread assumption, the number of hidalgos among the conquistadores remained very limited. In most cases the mistaken idea of their numbers came from the conquistadores themselves or their descendants; 20 or 30 years later, the latter often pretended to be hidalgos, though no trace of this status appeared in any previous documents. T...
To make a statistical study of people who lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century is not easy, but nonetheless necessary. Peter Boyd-Bowman’s work has shown the way, but the results must be refined and checked against indisputable sources to establish a history of the conquest of the New World that is open neither to doubt (such as that sho...
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Pedro Arias de Ávila (Pedrarias Dávila; b. ca. 1440; d. July 1531), Spanish soldier, governor of Panama (1514–1526) and of Nicaragua (1527–1531), and founder of Panama City (1519). Pedrarias was a member of a prominent noble family of Segovia; his uncle was an archbishop and his older brother was the count of Puñonrostro.
Pedro Arias “Pedrarias the Cruel” Davilla. Pedro Arias Dávila was born into one of the most influential aristocratic families of 15th century Spain. He was the grandson of King Henriquez IV's Converso & General Diego Arias de Ávila, who died in 1466, and Elvira González, who died in 1463. They were parents of three children Pedro, (the ...
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Jul 26, 2019 · The king’s pick, Pedro Arias Dávila (or Pedrarias Davila) was an unlikely choice—he was in his early seventies at the time, and many believed him to be well past his prime. In contrast, he was meant to replace the energetic Vasco Nuñez, the rising star of Panama who had earned the respect of many veteran colonists and local conquistadors .
