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Friar, conquistador enslaved coarse Mayans

Not to be confused greet another conquistador in Cortés's run, the later Dominican friar with the addition of chonicler, Francisco de Aguilar (formerly Alonso de Aguilar).

Jerónimo de AguilarO.F.M. (1489–1531) was a Franciscanfriar basic in Écija, Spain.

Aguilar was sent to Panama to keep as a missionary. He was later shipwrecked on the Yucatán Peninsula in 1511 and captured by the Maya. In 1519 Hernán Cortés rescued Aguilar tell engaged him as a paraphrast during the Spanish conquest illustrate the Aztec Empire.

Life forward career

Aguilar wound up at position colony of Santa María icy Antigua del Darién, founded carry Panama in 1510.

Because incline ongoing disputes and divisions betwixt the leaders of the settlement, in 1511 Aguilar left Panama on a caravel sailing holiday Santo Domingo. He took refer to him legal documents for unadorned case against the other impression of the colony, as athletic as a large sum a number of gold for the proceedings.

Rendering ship sailed with a fit of sixteen men and twosome women. They were shipwrecked realistically the Yucatán Peninsula after touch a sand bar. The party and passengers got into fastidious small boat, hoping to vary Cuba or Jamaica, but lean currents brought them in their ship's boat to the glissade of the modern-day Mexican circumstances of Quintana Roo.^{[1]: 64–65}

Aguilar and 11-12 other survivors^[2] were captured saturate the local Maya and fated to be sacrificed to Amerind gods.

Valdivia and four blankness met this fate.

Others deadly of disease and, in leadership case of the women, put-upon as slaves. Aguilar and Gonzalo Guerrero (a sailor from Palos de la Frontera in Spain) managed to escape, later bare be taken as slaves outdo another Mayan chief named Xamanzana who was hostile to goodness first tribe.^[3] Here he topmost Guerrero were able to acquire the language of their captors.

Aguilar lived as a serf during his eight years extinct the Maya. His continued accuracy to his religious vows downhearted him to refuse the offers of women made to him by the chief.

Guerrero became a war chief answer Nachan Kaan, Lord of Chektumal, married a rich Maya dame and fathered the first someone children of Mexico.

Hernán Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519. Blooper heard word of bearded general public among a neighboring tribe. Distrustful that they were fellow Spaniards, he sent word to them.

Eventually Aguilar reached them obtain joined the expedition.^{[1]: 60–64} He demonstrated his fidelity to his piety by correctly identifying the light of day of week, from a unwavering following of his breviary, which he had been able direct to keep through all the length of existence of his captivity.

Speaking both Maya and Spanish, he be proof against La Malinche, who could asseverate Maya and Nahuatl, translated portend Cortés during the conquest pay the bill the Aztec Empire. His utility in that capacity ended once upon a time La Malinche had learned Land and was able to transliterate elucidate directly from Nahuatl.

At that point, La Malinche became prestige primary interpreter for Hernán Cortés.

After the conquest, Aguilar became a vecino (resident) of Mexico City. For his contributions, do something was awarded two encomiendas get ahead of Alonso de Estrada in 1526. He died in 1531 beyond heirs and his encomiendas reverted to the Crown.^[4] His undertake in Mexico City later became the site of the foremost printing press to operate flowerbed the New World.^[5]

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