Juan Velázquez de León was a Spanish conquistador, who along with Hernán Cortés participated in the third Spanish expedition to continental America (present day Mexico) in 1519.[1]: 50 He was distinguished by being relative of the then Governor of Cuba Diego Velázquez, but overall served Hernán Cortés and the cause of the Conquest. Cortés gave Juan the daughter of Maxixcatzin, baptized as Doña Elvira, after the Tlaxcallan's made peace with the Spanish.[1]: 178
Juan had a determining participation in the defeat of the army of Pánfilo de Narváez, when Cortés sent him to "win him friends in Narváez' camp."[1]: 282
He died when the Aztec army attacked the Spaniards as they fled the city of Tenochtitlán, during the La Noche Triste.[1]: 286, 297, 300–301
References
- ^ a b c d Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, ISBN 0140441239
