Greek-Spanish cartographer and conquistador (1485–1542)
Pedro de Candia (Pietro de Cândia) (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈpeðɾoðekanˈdi.a]; Crete, Kingdom of Candia 1485–1542 Chupas, Viceroyalty of Peru) was a Greek explorer and cartographer at the service of the Kingdom of Spain, an officer of the Royal Spanish Navy that under the Spanish Crown became a Conquistador, Grandee of Spain,[1] Commander of the Royal Spanish Fleet of the Southern Sea, Colonial Ordinance of Cusco, and then Mayor of Lima[2][3][4] between 1534 and 1535. Specialized in the use of firearms and artillery, he was one of the earliest explorers of Panama and the Pacific coastline of Colombia, and finally participated in the conquest of Peru.[5]: 116, 122, 128 He was killed in the Battle of Chupas, (Peru), on 16 September 1542, by Diego de Almagro II.[6]: 115
^PATRONATO,28,R.22 Concesión título nobles a caballeros: compañeros de Pizarro 1529-07-26 Real Provisión por la que se concede la gracia de noble si fuese plebeyo, la de caballero al hidalgo, y la de Grandee a don Pedro de Candia, en premio por sus servicios en la conquista de Tumbes en compañía de Francisco Pizarro, otorgan 3 titulos a don Pedro de Candia, originario de Creta y a su descendencia, quien fue uno de los primeros conquistadores de Perú, encomendado a Poblar la Inmensidad Insular: sociedades, conflictividad y representación- Real Provisión, Patronato, atestiguado en Toledo, 26 de julio de 1529, Page 350, 2010 - 548 pages, Spain.
^James Lockhart , Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: a social history p.g. 142
^"GreenApple-Πράσινο Μήλο Ηλεκτρονικό περιοδικό με άρθρα για Επιστήμες Περιβάλλον Πολιτισμός". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
^Primera parte de los Comentarios reales que tratan de el origen de los Incas, Madrid 1829 by Garcilaso de la Vega p. 366
^Prescott, W.H., 2011, The History of the Conquest of Peru, Digireads.com Publishing, ISBN 9781420941142
^Cite error: The named reference Leon was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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what political unit he was born in) and followed his Greek friend PedroDeCandia to Panama and Peru. He was also appointed as an encomendero in Jauja...
wealth. De Soto sailed to the New World with Pedro Arias Dávila, appointed as the first Governor of Panama. In 1520 he participated in Gaspar de Espinosa's...
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Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (Colombia, 1536–1539, Venezuela, 1569–1572) Pedro Fernández de Lugo (Canary Island, Colombia 1509–1536) PedrodeCandia (Panama, 1527...
on the works "Suma y Narración de los Incas" by Juan de Betanzos (1551) and "El Señorío de los Incas" by Pedro Cieza de León (1880) Chronology according...
Francisca de la Cueva de Valenzuela. In 1627, their son Pedro Tesifón de Moctezuma was given the title Count of Moctezuma (later altered to Moctezuma de Tultengo)...
September 8, 1565, Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed with a band of settlers to found St. Augustine. Father Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales, the...
Francisco de Aguirre heads into the area from the west over the Andes and Pedro González de Mendoza comes in from the Rio de la Plata region. Juan de Ayolas...
gold), to serve as a trading post and as a base for further prospecting. Pedro Margarite, a nobleman from Aragon and a confidant of the king, was put in...
bishop of Gortyna Saint Andrew (8th-century) martyr under Iconoclasm PedrodeCandia (1485–1542) mercenary and naturalized Spanish conquistador. Constantine...
Santa Cruz de Nuca as well as Fort San Miguel, manned by soldiers of the First Company of Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia, under Pedrode Alberni...
to have set foot on soil which is today part of the United States. PedrodeCandia (lit. 'Petros the Cretan', a Greek adventurer and soldier from Crete...
Pizarro established the first council and appointed Beltrán de Castro and Captain PedrodeCandia as mayors, handing each of them their respective varas of...
Santa Cruz de Nuca (or Nutca) was a Spanish colonial fort and settlement and the first European colony in what is now known as British Columbia. The settlement...
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