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Juan de Grijalva

1480 - 1527

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Juan de Grijalva (Spanish: [xwan de ɣɾiˈxalβa]; born c. 1490 in Cuéllar, Crown of Castile – 21 January 1527 in Honduras) was a Spanish conquistador, and a relative of Diego Velázquez.: 27  He went to Hispaniola in 1508 and to Cuba in 1511. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan de Grijalva has received more than 126,875 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Juan de Grijalva is the 152nd most popular explorer (down from 151st in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from Spain (down from 548th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Spanish Explorer.

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  • 130k

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Juan de Grijalva ranks 152 out of 405Before him are Scylax of Caryanda, Gaspar Corte-Real, Vladimir Arsenyev, Hans Staden, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, and John Sutter. After him are Adrien de Gerlache, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Samuel Wallis, Ahmad ibn Rustah, Anthony van Diemen, and Sophie Blanchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Juan de Grijalva ranks 22Before him are Dosso Dossi, Marcantonio Raimondi, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, Jean Clouet, António de Abreu, and Sebastián de Belalcázar. After him are Pedro Damiano, Herri met de Bles, Pir Sultan Abdal, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Antonio de Guevara, and Girolamo Aleandro. Among people deceased in 1527, Juan de Grijalva ranks 4Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli, Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, and Diego Columbus. After him are Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona, Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Johann Froben, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Felix Manz, and Catherine of York.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Juan de Grijalva ranks 596 out of 2,932Before him are Antonio de Nebrija (1441), Chintila (606), José de Espronceda (1808), Ibn al-Khatib (1313), Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531), and Juan Goytisolo (1931). After him are Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (1200), Ramon Muntaner (1265), Lluís Llach (1948), Víctor Valdés (1982), Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (1859), and Francisco Herrera the Elder (1576).

Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Juan de Grijalva ranks 31Before him are Andrés de Urdaneta (1498), Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509), João da Nova (1460), Rodrigo de Triana (1469), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1500), and Sebastián de Belalcázar (1480). After him are Gerónimo de Aguilar (1489), Paulo da Gama (1465), Francisco de Bobadilla (1500), Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499), Francisco de Montejo (1479), and Pedro Cieza de León (1520).