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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo was a Spanish soldier and author, who took part in the conquest of Mexico. In 1514 he visited Cuba and five years later accompanied Hernán Cortés to Mexico. In protest against the academic chronicles of sedentary historians, he wrote his Historia verdadera de la conquista.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (Medina del Campo, 1496-Santiago de Guatemala, 3 de febrero de 1584) fue un conquistador español que participó en la conquista de México y fue más tarde regidor de Santiago de Guatemala.
Aug 26, 2022 · The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 to c. 1580) is an account written in 1568 of the early Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica, specifically the conquest of the Aztec civilization in Mexico from 1519 to 1521 when Díaz was a member of the conquistador expedition led by Hernán Cortés (1485-1547).
Jan 4, 2022 · Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1495-1584) served under Cortes through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative is both an invaluable document and a spectacular epic.
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. Medina del Campo (Valladolid), X.1495 o III.1496 – Santiago de Guatemala (Guatemala), 1 o 3.I.1584. Cronista. Él mismo indica ser hijo del regidor Francisco Díaz del Castillo y de María Díez de Rejón. De su padre comenta que fue apodado El Galán, por su buena presencia.
Jun 11, 2018 · The Spanish soldier Bernal Díaz del Castillo (ca. 1496-ca. 1584) was a member of the expedition that conquered the Aztec empire. His "A True History of the Conquest of New Spain " is the most complete contemporary chronicle of that event.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo was born in 1492, the year Columbus sailed across the Atlantic. He joined Hernán Cortés on his expedition to Mexico and was with him as he marched on Tenochtitlan. At the age of seventy, he began to write his True History of the Conquest of New Spain.
Bernal Díaz Del Castillo. (Medina del Campo, Valladolid, h. 1492 - Guatemala, h. 1585) Conquistador y cronista español. Desde joven se decidió por la carrera de las armas y, debido a su afán de aventuras, hacia 1514 se embarcó a América viajando sucesivamente con las expediciones de Pedro Arias Dávila (a Darién, o sea Centroamérica ...
Bernal Díaz del Castillo was born in the very noble, famous and celebrated town of Medina del Campo in the year 1492 at the very time when Christopher Columbus was joining the two worlds.
