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Andrés de Urdaneta

1498 - 1568

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Andrés de Urdaneta (1508 – June 3, 1568) was a maritime explorer for the Spanish Empire of Basque heritage, who became an Augustinian friar. At the age of seventeen, he formed part of the Loaísa expedition to the Spice Islands where he spent more than eight years. Around 1540 he settled in New Spain and became an Augustinian friar in 1552. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrés de Urdaneta has received more than 223,347 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Andrés de Urdaneta is the 139th most popular explorer (down from 117th in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from Spain (down from 432nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Spanish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 139 out of 498. Before him are Juan de Grijalva, Vladimir Arsenyev, João Vaz Corte-Real, Gil Eanes, Frederick Cook, and Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. After him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Otto Sverdrup, Mikhail Lazarev, Sebastián de Belalcázar, Scylax of Caryanda, and Cornelis de Houtman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1498, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 9. Before him are Meera, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Maarten van Heemskerck, Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal, Giulio Clovio, and Sophie of Pomerania. After him are Andreas Osiander, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, Hieronymus Bock, Moretto da Brescia, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Felix Manz. Among people deceased in 1568, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 9. Before him are Albert, Duke of Prussia, Jean Parisot de Valette, Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Stanislaus Kostka, Sophie of Pomerania, and Jacques Arcadelt. After him are Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, Nicolaus Olahus, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Gaspar Becerra, and Ashikaga Yoshihide.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 527 out of 3,355. Before him are Leander of Seville (534), Aurelius of Asturias (740), Chintila (606), María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba (1762), Borrell II, Count of Barcelona (927), and Beatus of Liébana (730). After him are García Sánchez III of Pamplona (1012), Remedios Varo (1908), Juan Goytisolo (1931), Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon (1401), Alicia de Larrocha (1923), and Vímara Peres (820).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 28. Before him are Pánfilo de Narváez (1478), Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510), Pedro de Mendoza (1487), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1500), Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509), and Juan de Grijalva (1480). After him are Sebastián de Belalcázar (1480), Rodrigo de Triana (1469), Ruy López de Villalobos (1500), Paulo da Gama (1465), Gerónimo de Aguilar (1489), and Francisco de Bobadilla (1500).

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