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Tristán de Luna y Arellano (1510 – September 16, 1573) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador of the 16th century. Biography. Born in Borobia, Spain, to a noble family, he came to New Spain, and was sent on an expedition to colonize Florida in 1559.
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.
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 ( Soria ), 1510 –† Ciudad de México, 16 de septiembre de 1573), también conocido como Tristán de Arellano, fue un explorador y conquistador español de la familia de Luna.
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.
Mar 1, 1995 · Tristán de Luna y Arellano, conquistador, was of a Castilian family of the Borobia estates in the villas of Cicia and Borobia in Spain. He was a cousin of the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, and of Juana de Zúñiga, wife of Hernán Cortés. He first sailed to New Spain in 1530 or 1531.
