Alonso Pérez de Zamora
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Alonso Pérez de Zamora (1495)

Born in Santa Marta, Reinos de Castilla (Zamora, España)map
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"Hijo de Álvaro Pérez y Catalina Domínguez, marchó a tierras americanas en compañía de su padre y de Álvaro de Zamora, su hermano. En 1519 se hallaban en Cuba, pasando al año siguiente en el navío de Hernán Medel a Nueva España, allí se sumaron a las tropas de Hernán Cortés en la conquista de las provincias de Tepeaca y Texcoco. Participaron en el sitio de Tenochtitlán, donde murió el padre, y Alonso se ocupó como ballestero a las órdenes de Jerónimo Ruiz de la Mota. Ya en 1525 su hermano se afincó en Oaxaca, y Alonso se cuenta entre los primeros vecinos de la reconstruida Ciudad de México. Contrajo primeras nupcias con Angelina Pérez, mujer india, y segundas con Catalina Gómez, natural de Castilla."[1]

"Pérez, his father, and his brother Alvaro arrived in New Spain on a ship outfitted by Hernando Medel 15 days after Narváez had been detained by Cortés. He was a vecino of Mexico City and received the encomienda of Tolcayuca (40 miles northeast of Mexico City near Pachuca; two barrios in 1569). Half was taken for the crown by 1525. Pérez was married and had five daughters and six sons."[2]

Fuentes

  1. Díez Martín, María Teresa. “Alonso Pérez de Zamora.” Real Academia de la Historia, 2018. http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/44899/alonso-perez-de-zamora.
  2. The Encomenderos of New Spain, 1521-1555, By Robert Himmerich y Valencia, University of Texas Press, 1991.




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