Hernán Cortés

Also known as Hernando Corteés, marqués del Valle, Hernán, marqués del Valle de Oaxaca Cortés, Hernaán Corteéz, Fernando Cortees, Hernando Cortees Valle de Oaxaca, Hernando Corteés Valle de Oaxaca, Hernando Corteés, Hernan Cortes

Spanish conquistador

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Hernán Cortés was a Spanish and Mexican explorer, governor, conquistador, and writer born in 1485 in Medellín. He served as a general and received the Order of Santiago. Cortés participated in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. He was an unmarried partner of La Malinche and Isabel Moctezuma. His children included Martín Cortés, Leonor Cortés Moctezuma de la torre, and Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca.

He died in 1547 in Castilleja de la Cuesta from dysentery and pleurisy due to natural causes. He is buried in Mexico City and spoke Spanish. His works include *Tertia Ferdinãdi*, *Pleito del Marqués del Valle contra Nuño de Guzmán, sobre aprovechamiento de pueblos de la provincia de Avalos*, *Briefe des Ferdinand Cortes an Kayser Carl den 5ten über die Eroberung von Mexico*, *Die Eroberung Mexikos*, and *Documentos relativos á Hernan Cortés*. He is depicted in *The Road to El Dorado* and described by sources such as the *Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1485
Died: 1547
Works: 105

Top works

Tertia Ferdinãdi
Pleito del Marqués del Valle contra Nuño de Guzmán, sobre aprovechamiento de pueblos de la provincia de Avalos
Briefe des Ferdinand Cortes an Kayser Carl den 5ten über die Eroberung von Mexico
Die Eroberung Mexikos
Documentos relativos á Hernan Cortés

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 39
Total plays: 176

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,538x
ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,445x
Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes
· 2013 · cited 4,887x
Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology
· 2000 · cited 4,475x
Recent developments in Geant4
· 2016 · cited 3,783x

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Hernán Cortés, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Historia de Nueva-España

Cartas y relaciones de Hernán Cortés al emperador Carlos V

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Encyclopedic overview

Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (c. 1485 – 2 December 1547) was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an encomienda (the right to the labour of certain subjects). For a short time, he served as alcalde (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, which he partly funded. His enmity with the governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment, an order which Cortés ignored.

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