Francisco
Vázquez de Coronado
Born in Salamanca, Reinos de Castilla (Castilla y León, España)
Ancestors 
Son of Juan Vázquez de Coronado
and Isabel de Luján
Brother of
Gonzalo Vázquez de Coronado
Husband of
Beatriz de Estrada
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Juan Vásquez de Coronado, Luisa de Estrada, Isabel de Luján and Marina Vázquez de Coronado
Died
at about age 44
in Ciudad de México, Nueva España (Ciudad de México, México)
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Biografía
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado is Notable.
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| Born in Salamanca, Spain |
"Pasa a Nueva España en compañía del primer virrey Antonio de Mendoza (1535), siendo nombrado poco después gobernador de Nueva Galicia."[1]"[F]ue conquistador y Gobernador del Reino de la Nueva Galicia, situado al noroeste del actual México, y es célebre por su vana expedición en búsqueda de las Siete Ciudades de Cíbola, que lo llevó a descubrir gran parte del norte de México y del centro y el oeste de Estados Unidos."[2]
"Casó el dicho Francisco Vázquez Coronado en esta ciudad [México] con Doña Beatriz de Estrada, hija segunda de Alonso de Estrada, Gobernador y capitán general que fué de esta Nueva España"[3]
In 1540, Vazques de Coronado led an expedition into what would become the southwestern United States and northern Texas. His expedition discovered the Grand Canyon and other famous landmarks.
Fuentes
- ↑ Romero de Solís, José Miguel. 2001. Andariegos y pobladores: Nueva España y Nueva Galicia : siglo XVI. Zamora, Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán.
- ↑ Mata Herrera, F. (2000). Nuevos Hallazgos en la ascendencia del Adelantado de Costa Rica Juan Vázquez de Coronado. Revista de la Academia Costarricense de Ciencias Genealógicas 38, 337-350.
- ↑ Dorantes de Carranza, Baltasar, and Ernesto de la Torre Villar. 1987. Sumaria relación de las cosas de la Nueva España: con noticia individual de los conquistadores y primeros pobladores españoles. México: Editorial Porrúa.
Ver también:
- Francisco Vazquez de Coronado on Biography.com
- Dorantes de Carranza, Baltasar, and Ernesto de la Torre Villar. 1987. Sumaria relación de las cosas de la Nueva España: con noticia individual de los conquistadores y primeros pobladores españoles. México: Editorial Porrúa.
- Flint, Shirley Cushing. 2013. No Mere Shadows Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
- Wikipedia: Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- David Donoghue, "VAZQUEZ DE CORONADO, FRANCISCO," Handbook of Texas Online Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, accessed September 13, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
- David Donoghue, "CORONADO EXPEDITION," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/upcpt), accessed September 13, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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