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Bernal Díaz del Castillo

1492 - 1584

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernal Díaz del Castillo has received more than 463,601 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Bernal Díaz del Castillo is the 108th most popular explorer (up from 109th in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Spain (up from 366th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Spanish Explorer.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo is most famous for his book The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, which was an eyewitness account of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Bernal Díaz del Castillo ranks 108 out of 405. Before him are Pánfilo de Narváez, Bartholomew Columbus, Carsten Niebuhr, Sacagawea, Pêro da Covilhã, and Martín Alonso Pinzón. After him are João Gonçalves Zarco, Juan de la Cosa, Tristão da Cunha, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Semyon Dezhnev, and Pedro de Mendoza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1492, Bernal Díaz del Castillo ranks 6. Before him are Marguerite de Navarre, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Pietro Aretino, Antonio Pigafetta, and Juan Luis Vives. After him are Andrea Alciato, Elizabeth Tudor, John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Martín de Azpilcueta, Adam Ries, and Jean du Bellay. Among people deceased in 1584, Bernal Díaz del Castillo ranks 6. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, William the Silent, Charles Borromeo, Francis, Duke of Anjou, and Yi I. After him are Balthasar Gérard, Jan Kochanowski, Marcantonio Colonna, Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, and Pieter Pourbus.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Bernal Díaz del Castillo ranks 355 out of 2,932. Before him are John of Ávila (1500), Antipope Clement VIII (1370), Lola Flores (1923), Manolo Blahnik (1942), Alfonso V of León (994), and Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441). After him are José Sanjurjo (1872), Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (1832), Joan Fuster (1922), Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850), Francisco Largo Caballero (1869), and Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans (1848).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Bernal Díaz del Castillo ranks 21. Before him are Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488), Juan Díaz de Solís (1470), Gonzalo Pizarro (1510), Ferdinand Columbus (1488), Pánfilo de Narváez (1478), and Martín Alonso Pinzón (1441). After him are Juan de la Cosa (1460), Pedro de Mendoza (1487), Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510), Andrés de Urdaneta (1498), Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509), and João da Nova (1460).

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