Los Sobrevivientes de La Florida


 Cordero, Juan. Son of Alvaro Cordero and Leonor Carcelas,
citizens of Badajoz, SR-287. Hemandez de Biedma listed him as
one of the survivors of the expedition, originally from Portugal,
Smith-298. Here again there is an example of a Portuguese listing
himself as being from just the other side of the Spanish border,
namely Badajoz. Garcilaso mentions a Joam Cordeiro, clearly a
Portuguese name, native of Yelves, or Elvas, and most likely the
same person listed here.46 He made his probanza in Jaen, Peru, in
1561 where he was living then. He declared he came from Mexico
to Peru where he served the King fighting in the battle of
Xaquixaguana against the rebel Gonzalo Pizarro, who was
defeated. He was one of the founders of the city of Jaen for he had
accompanied Captain Diego Palomino in its conquest. He added
he did not have enough income to support his wife and family.

 Coria. Survivor from Sevilla, Smith-292.

 Cornejo, Alonso. Son of Francisco Comejo and Leonor
Gonzalez, from Valencia de la Torre, SR-292. Among the
survivors of the Florida expedition there is a Comejo from Zafra,
Almendralejo or Segura, who may be this same soldier, Smith
-294. However, there was another Alonso Comejo who enlisted in
Sevilla for Florida, a son of Anton Comejo and Isabel Guerra,
citizen of Castro Calbon, SR-330. Castro Calbon was located in
the kingdom of Leon. The last Comejo cited here may have lost
his life in the exploration of Florida, while the first is likely a
survivor.

 Corona, Rodrigo. Son of Pedro de Olias and Juana Lopez,
citizens of Torrejon de Velasco, SR-311. Among the survivors
appears a man by the same name who played the trumpet, credited
as a native of Toledo, Smith-295.

 Cortes, Diego. He testified in the city of Puebla la los
Angeles in Mexico, that he was bom in Medellin and that his
parents were Pero Gutierrez and Catalina Cortes. He added that he
took part in de Soto's expedition to Florida and that at the time he
was residing in Puebla with his wife, a daughter of Alonso de


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