Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)

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

Prescott, William H. (1843). "Book II, Chapter I". The Conquest of Mexico.; 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.

Francisco Hernández De Córdoba (Yucatán Conquistador) Media

A contemporary portrait of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in the Museo Histórico Naval, Veracruz, Mexico

Other websites

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)

Persondata
Name	Hernandez de Cordoba, Francisco
Alternative names	Hernández de Córdoba, Francisco
Short description	conquistador, explorer
Date of birth
Place of birth	Spain
Date of death	1517
Place of death	Cuba