MILITARY PERSONNEL

Gonzalo Guerrero

1470 - 1536

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Gonzalo Guerrero (also known as Gonzalo Marinero, Gonzalo de Aroca and Gonzalo de Aroza) was a sailor from Palos, Spain who was shipwrecked along the Yucatán Peninsula and was taken as a slave by the local Maya. Earning his freedom, Guerrero became a respected warrior under a Maya lord and raised three of the first mestizo children in Mexico and one of the first mestizo children in the Americas, alongside Miguel Díez de Aux and the children of Caramuru and João Ramalho in Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gonzalo Guerrero has received more than 465,874 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gonzalo Guerrero is the 1,043rd most popular military personnel, the 815th most popular biography from Spain and the 16th most popular Spanish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gonzalo Guerrero ranks 1,043 out of 2,058. Before him are Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Bonifacius, Otto Baum, Nureddin Pasha, and Müezzinzade Ali Pasha. After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Yang Kyoungjong, Oskar Kummetz, Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, John Fastolf, and Abdul Fatah Younis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Gonzalo Guerrero ranks 21. Before him are Tang Yin, João I of Kongo, Wen Zhengming, Fernando de Rojas, Vincenzo Catena, and Ludovico di Varthema. After him are Marco Basaiti, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Bernardo Dovizi, Fernão de Loronha, Willibald Pirckheimer, and Daniel Hopfer. Among people deceased in 1536, Gonzalo Guerrero ranks 16. Before him are Garcilaso de la Vega, John of Leiden, Cecilia Gallerani, George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, Gil Vicente, and Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. After him are Ibn Kemal, Jacob Hutter, Felice della Rovere, Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Juan Pizarro, and Marino Sanuto the Younger.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gonzalo Guerrero ranks 815 out of 3,355. Before him are Antonio de Ulloa (1716), Ismail I of Granada (1279), Nicolás de Ovando (1451), Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), Miguel Reina (1946), and Alonso de Ercilla (1533). After him are Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (1606), Toda of Pamplona (876), Constanza Manuel (1315), Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1943), Antonio López García (1936), and Miguel Delibes (1920).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Spain

Among military personnels born in Spain, Gonzalo Guerrero ranks 16. Before him are Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz (1526), Serena (365), José Miaja (1878), Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma (1553), George Meade (1815), and Gaius Laelius (-300). After him are Blas de Lezo (1689), Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia (1550), José Millán-Astray (1879), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1475), Cristóbal de Olid (1487), and Juan Yagüe (1891).

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