Jorge de Alvarado

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Alvarado and the second or maternal family name is Contreras.

Jorge de Alvarado y Contreras
Born	1480 Badajoz, Extremadura,
Died	1540 or 1541 (aged 60–61) Madrid
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	conquistador

Jorge de Alvarado y Contreras (born c.1480 Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain – died Madrid 1540 or 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, brother of the more famous Pedro de Alvarado.

Biography and family

Jorge de Alvarado was a native of Badajoz and son of Gómez de Alvarado y Mexía de Sandoval, born in Badajoz around 1480 and vecino of Badajoz, Extremadura, Commander of Lobón, Puebla, Montijo and Cubillana, Alcalde of Montánchez, Trece of the Order of Santiago, Lord of Castellanos, Maestresala of Henry IV of Castile and General of the Frontier of Portugal, widower of Teresa Suárez de Moscoso y Figueroa, and second wife Leonor de Contreras y Gutiérrez de Trejo.

Alvarado went to Hispaniola in 1510 with all his older brothers Pedro and Gonzalo and younger brothers Gómez, Hernando and Juan and their uncle Diego de Alvarado y Mexía de Sandoval.

Jorge married a daughter of Xicotencatl I, the ruler of Tizatlan in Tlaxcala, as Pedro also did, probably to gain the support of Tlaxcalan troops. She was baptized with the Spanish name doña Lucía. They had a daughter, Francisca de Alvarado, who married the conquistador Francisco Xiron Manuel and had issue.

He was one of the conquerors of Mexico and Guatemala along with his brother, and Lieutenant-Governor of Guatemala under him. In 1527 he founded the city of Santiago de los Caballeros and the one of San Salvador in 1528.

Like his brother he also married twice, firstly to Francisca Girón and secondly in 1526 to Luisa de Estrada, certainly related to Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's wife, by whom he had a son Jorge de Alvarado y Estrada, born in México, who married Catalina de Villafañe y Carvajal, Mexican, daughter of Ángel de Villafañe, conqueror of Mexico, and wife Inés de Carvajal. Their son was Jorge de Alvarado y Villafañe, also born in Mexico, Governor and Captain-General of Honduras and Knight of Santiago since 1587, also married twice, firstly to Brianda de Quiñones and secondly to Juana de Benavides, vecina of Guatemala.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Jorge de Alvarado y Contreras

16. Fernando Sánchez or Sánz del Varado 8. Garci Sánchez de Varado or de Alvarado 17. María González de Aguilar 4. Juan de Alvarado 18. Alvaro Dávila 9. Leonor de Bracamonte 19. 2. Diego Gómez de Alvarado y Mexía de Sandoval 20. 10. 21. 5. Catalina Mexía y Sandoval 22. 11. 23. 1. Jorge de Alvarado y Contreras 24. 12. Fernán Núñez de Contreras or Fernando Martínez de Contreras, el Viejo 25. 6. Gonzalo de Contreras y Carvajal 26. Alvar García de Bejarano or de Orellana, Señor de Orellana la Nueva 13. Sarra or Sara de Carvajal 27. Mencía González de Carvajal 3. Leonor de Contreras y Gutiérrez de Trejo 28. Gutierre González de Trejo, 7. Señor de Grimaldo, Almofraque y Carchuelas 14. 29. Violante Gutiérrez de la Cerda 7. Isabel Gutiérrez de Trejo y Ulloa 30. 15. 31.

References

• Restall, Matthew; Florine G.L. Asselbergs (2007). Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of the Conquest Wars. Latin American Originals series, no. 2. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-02758-6. OCLC 165478850.