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Pedrarias Dávila (
Pedro Arias de Ávila) (
Segovia,
Castile, c.
1440 –
León,
March 6,
1531), was a
Spanish colonial administrator. He led the first great Spanish expedition in the
New World.
He married an intimate friend of queen
Isabella I of Spain (whence probably his preferment) and saw some service in
Europe. Dávila served as soldier in wars against
Moors at
Granada, in Spain, and in
North Africa. At the age of nearly seventy years he was made commander in
1514 by king
Ferdinand II of Aragon of the largest Spanish expedition (19 vessels and 1,500 men) hitherto sent to America. He reached
Santa Marta in
Colombia. Thence he went to
Darién, where the discoverer of the
Pacific Ocean,
Vasco Núñez de Balboa, governed. Pedrarias superseded him, gave him his daughter in wedlock, and afterwards had him judicially murdered. Another of Pedrarias's daughters, born when he was elderly, was married to his loyal lieutenant, the successful conquistador and ill fated explorer
Hernando de Soto.
In
1519 he founded
Panama City and moved his capital there in
1524, abandoning
Darién. Dávila sent
Gil González Dávila to explore northward. In 1524 he sent another expedition with
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba.
He was a party to the original agreement with
Francisco Pizarro and
Diego de Almagro which brought about the discovery of
Peru, but withdrew (
1526) for a small compensation, having lost confidence in the outcome. In the same year he was superseded as Governor of Panama by
Pedro de los Ríos, and retired to
León in
Nicaragua, where he was named its new governor on July 1,
1527. Here he lived for the rest of his life until he died at the age of 91 on March 6, 1531.
He left an unenviable record, as a man of unreliable character, cruel, and unscrupulous. Through his foundation of
Panama, however, he laid the basis for the discovery of
South America's west coast and the subsequent
conquest of Peru.
Spanish Bibliography
Alvarez Rubiano, Pablo: Pedrarias Dávila. Contribución a la figura del "Gran Justador", Gobernador de Castilla del Oro y Nicaragua. Madrid, 1944.
Cantera Burgos, Francisco: Pedrarias Dávila y Cota, capitán general y gobernador de Castilla del Oro y Nicaragua: sus antecedentes judíos. Universidad de Madrid, Cátedra de Lengua Hebrea e Historia de los judíos. Madrid, 1971.
Mena García, Carmen: Pedrarias Dávila o la Ira de Dios: una historia olvidada. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 1992 (281 págs.) ISBN 84-7405-834-1
Mena García, Carmen: Sevilla y las flotas de Indias. La gran armada de Castilla del Oro, 1513-1514. Universidad de Sevilla, Fundación cultural El Monte, Sevilla, 1998 (458 págs.), 2ª edición Sevilla, 1999, ISBN 84-472-0459-6
Mena García, Carmen: Un linaje de conversos en tierras americanas. Los testamentos de Pedrarias Dávila, gobernador de Castilla del Oro y Nicaragua. León, 2004; 202 págs., ISBN 84-9773-137-9
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