Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)
conquistador, explorer
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (died 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.
English-language references
change- Prescott, William H. (1843). "Book II, Chapter I". The Conquest of Mexico. Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2005-12-07.; online English edition
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1963). The Conquest of New Spain. J. M. Cohen, trans. and abridged (7th reprint ed.). London: Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780140441239.
Other websites
change- Discovery of Yucatán Archived 2004-12-06 at the Wayback Machine, on the Mexican web site redescolar. (in Spanish)
- Discovery of Yucatán Archived 2006-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, on México desconocido. (in Spanish)