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Tristán de Luna y Arellano (1510 – September 16, 1573 [1]) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador of the 16th century. [2] [3]
A Spanish Conquistador of the 16th century, Tristan de Luna y Arellano served with Francisco Vasquez de Coronado on his expedition to the Seven Cities of Cíbola and established Pensacola, Florida, one of the earliest European settlements within the present-day United States.
The artifacts discovered are evidence of the Spanish settlement by Tristán de Luna y Arellano from 1559 to 1561, the earliest multi-year European colonial settlement ever archaeologically identified in the United States.
Luna y Arellano, Tristán de. Borobia (Soria), 1514 – Ciudad de México (México), 16.IX.1573. Conquistador, gobernador de La Florida. Hijo de Carlos de Arellano y Luna, mariscal de Castilla, señor de Ciria (Soria) y de Borobia (Soria), y de Juana Dávalos Manrique, su segunda mujer.
Tristán De Luna y Arellano (b. ca. 1500/10; d. 16 September 1573), soldier and governor of La Florida (1559–1561). Born in Aragón, Luna came to New Spain with Hernán Cortés around 1530, returned to Spain, and came back to New Spain in 1535.
Borobia , 1510 –† Ciudad de México, Virreinato de Nueva España, 16 de septiembre de 1573), también conocido como Tristán de Arellano, fue un militar, explorador y conquistador español de la familia de Luna.
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The men, women, and children aboard the ships were led by Spanish conquistador Don Tristan de Luna. De Luna’s plan was to establish the first permanent European colony in North America. He called the settlement site Ochuse, La Florida.
