Jorge de Alvarado y Contreras (b. Badajoz

Badajoz

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, Extremadura

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, Spain

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 – d. 1540 or 1541 or Madrid

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, 1553) was a Spanish

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 conquistador

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, brother of the more famous Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. He participated in the conquest of Cuba, in Juan de Grijalva's exploration of the coasts of Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and in the conquest of Mexico led by Hernan Cortes...

.

Jorge de Alvarado was a native of Badajoz and son of Diego Gómez de Alvarado y Mexía de Sandoval, born in Badajoz in 1460 and vecino

Vecino

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of Badajoz, Extremadura, Commander of Lobón

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, Puebla

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, Montijo

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 and Cubillana, Alcalde

Alcalde

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of Montanchez

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, Trece of the Order of Santiago

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, Lord of Castellanos

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, Maestresala of Henry IV of Castile

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 and General

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 of the Frontier

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 of Portugal

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, widow of Teresa Suárez de Moscoso y Figueroa, and second wife Leonor de Contreras y Gutiérrez de Trejo.

Alvarado went to Hispaniola

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 in 1510 with all his older brothers Pedro and Gonzalo

Gonzalo de Alvarado

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 and younger brothers Gómez, Hernando and Juan and their uncle Diego de Alvarado y Mexía de Sandoval.

Jorge married a daughter of Xicotencatl

Xicotencatl I

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, the ruler of Tizatlan

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 in Tlaxcala

Tlaxcala (Nahua state)

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, as Pedro also did, probably to gain the support of Tlaxcalan troops. She was baptized

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 with the Spanish name doña Lucía. They had a daughter who married the conquistador Francisco Xiron Manuel and had issue.

He was one of the conquerors of Mexico and Guatemala along with his brother, and Lieutenant-Governor of Guatemala

Guatemala

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 under him. In 1527 he founded the city of Santiago de los Caballeros

Antigua Guatemala

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 and the one of San Salvador

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 in 1528.

Like his brother he also married twice, firstly to Francisca Girón and secondly in 1526 to Luisa de Estrada, certainly related to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's wife, by whom he had a son Jorge de Alvarado y Estrada, born in México, who married Catalina de Villafañe y Carvajal, Mexican, daughter of Ángel de Villafañe

Ángel de Villafañe

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, conqueror of Mexico, and wife Inés de Carvajal. Their son was Jorge de Alvarado y Villafañe, also born in Mexico, Governor

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 and Captain-General of Honduras

Honduras

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 and Knight

Knight

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 of Santiago

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since 1587, also married twice, firstly to Brianda de Quiñones and secondly to Juana de Benavides, vecina of Guatemala, and had issue.