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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (c. 1480 – 18 October 1526) was a Spanish magistrate and explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Gualdape colony, one of the first European attempts at a settlement in what is now the United States. Ayllón's account of the region inspired a number of later attempts by the Spanish and French ...
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón was a Spanish explorer and the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina. Going to the West Indies in 1502, he became a judge in the colonial administration of Hispaniola (Santo Domingo). In 1520 he went to Mexico to mediate the dispute between the Spanish.
A lawyer and nobleman from Spain, Lucas Vasques de Ayllon sponsored the first Spanish explorations (three total) of what became North Carolina. He also discovered Chesapeake Bay and established San Miguel de Guandape, a settlement near what would be Jamestown.
Apr 15, 2016 · The founder of the first Spanish town in the territory of what came to be the United States, Ayllón was born circa 1480 in Toledo, Spain, to Juan Vázquez de Ayllón and Inés de Villalobos. In 1504 Ayllón arrived in the Spanish colony of Hispaniola to serve as a district judge.
Vázquez de Ayllón, Lucas. Toledo, c. 1478 – Carolina del Norte (Estados Unidos), 18.X.1526. Descubridor y oidor de la Audiencia de Santo Domingo. Vázquez de Ayllón nació en Toledo hacia el año 1478, en el seno de una noble familia de mozárabes, hay quienes sustentan que de conversos.
Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526. He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina. His attempt to settle the Carolina coast near the mouth of the Peedee River at Winyah Bay was unsuccessful.
Sep 7, 2019 · Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, a government functionary in the colony, wanted to start a settlement of his own, and he got permission from the King and Queen of Spain to send scouts sailing up the ...
Aug 8, 2016 · Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón (lōō´käs väs´kāth dā īlyōn´), c.1475–1526, Spanish explorer. He emigrated in 1502 to Santo Domingo, where he became a public official. In 1521, Francisco Gordillo, sent by Ayllón to explore northward, seems to have landed in either Florida or South Carolina [1].
Following Ponce de Leon's abortive 1521 attempt to establish a colony on the west coast of the peninsula of La Florida, Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón led a Spanish expedition that in-tended to found a colony in La Florida, but far north of Ponce de Leon's site. An early Ger-man engraving of Juan Ponce de León with his signature.
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (b. ca. 1475; d. 18 October 1526), judge and leader of an ill-fated colony in La Florida. Vázquez de Ayllón, an official in the Audiencia of Santo Domingo, sponsored two exploratory voyages to the Atlantic coast of La Florida.
