Francisco de Montejo (el Mozo)
(1502-1565)
Spanish Conquistador known for helping to launch the Conquest of Yucatán
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Francisco de Montejo y León known as "El Mozo" (the Younger or the Son) (1508 – February 8, 1565) was a Spanish conquistador, who in 1542 founded the city of Mérida, capital of State of Yucatán, Mexico. The son of Francisco de Montejo, ca. June 1527 he sailed with his father and his cousin Francisco de Montejo "the Nephew" from Sanlúcar de Barrameda to Cozumel, launching the first military campaign of the conquest of Yucatán.
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December 1502 Seville, Spain
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8 February 1565 (aged 62) Guatemala
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