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Hernán Cortés y Pizarro was a Spanish explorer, governor, conquistador, and writer born in Medellín in 1485. He served as a general in the Spanish Army and held allegiance to Spain. His career included participation in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, for which he received the Order of Santiago. He is also depicted in the work *The Road to El Dorado*.

Cortés was the unmarried partner of La Malinche and Isabel Moctezuma. He had children including Martín Cortés, Leonor Cortés Moctezuma de la torre, and Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. He authored works such as *Tertia Ferdinãdi* and *Die Eroberung Mexikos*. He died of dysentery and pleurisy in Castilleja de la Cuesta in 1547. His remains are buried in Mexico City.