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Coordinates: 32.3063°N 80.6755°W. Santa Elena, a Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island, South Carolina, was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587. It was established under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the first governor of Spanish Florida. [1] [2] There had been a number of earlier attempts to establish colonies in the ...
Gonzalo Méndez de Canço. Gonzalo Méndez de Canço y Donlebún (alternatively spelled " de Cancio " or " de Canzo "; c. 1554 – March 31, 1622) was a Spanish admiral who served as the seventh governor of the Spanish province of La Florida (1596–1603). He fought in the Battle of San Juan (1595) against the English admiral Francis Drake.
The Laws of Burgos ( Spanish: Leyes de Burgos ), promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Crown of Castile (Spain), was the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spaniards in the Americas, particularly with regard to the Indigenous people of the Americas ("native Caribbean Indians"). They forbade the slavery of the indigenous ...
Mario Benjamín Menéndez (1930–2015), Argentine general, military Governor of the Falklands during the Falklands War. Lyle and Erik Menéndez, American brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. Manuel Menéndez (1793–1847), President of Peru for three brief periods 1841–1845. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856 ...
Unknown. Died. 1649. St. Augustine, Florida. Profession. Royal treasurer and Administrator (Governor of Florida) Francisco Menéndez Márquez y Posada (died 1649) was a royal treasurer ( teosoro real) and interim co-governor of Spanish Florida, and the founder of a cattle ranching enterprise that became the largest in Florida.
Cross and Sword was a 1965 play by American playwright Paul Green created to honor the 400th anniversary of the settlement of St. Augustine. It was Florida 's official state play, having received the designation by the Florida Senate in 1973. [1] It was performed for ten weeks every summer in St. Augustine for more than 30 years, closing in 1996.
Juan Menéndez Márquez was the nephew or cousin (or, by some accounts, the illegitimate son) [2] of Pedro Menéndez Márquez, royal governor of Spanish Florida from 1577 to 1594. Pedro arranged for Juan to marry Pedro's niece, María Menéndez y Posada. María and Juan were betrothed in 1593, when she was only 12 years old, and married three ...
Carlos, also known as Calos or King Calusa (died 1567), was king or paramount chief of the Calusa people of Southwest Florida from about 1556 until his death. As his father, the preceding king, was also known as Carlos, he is sometimes called Carlos II. Carlos ruled over one of the most powerful and prosperous chiefdoms in the region at the ...