(1492-1584) Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of [[Tenochtitlán]] with [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Hernán Cortés]] and earned an [[Dan's History Web/US 1/Topic Index/Encomienda]] and governorship of Guatemala. He wrote a memoir in 1568 that he called *[The True History of the Conquest of New Spain](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189359/page/n9/mode/2up)* (click on the title to read it).