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Gerónimo de Aguilar
Friar, conquistador enslaved by Mayans
Not to be confused with another conquistador in Cortés's expedition, the later Dominican friar and chonicler, Francisco de Aguilar (formerly Alonso de Aguilar).
Jerónimo de AguilarO.F.M.
(1489–1531) was a Franciscanfriar born in Écija, Spain. Aguilar was sent to Panama to serve as a missionary. He was later shipwrecked on the Yucatán Peninsula in 1511 and captured by the Maya. In 1519 Hernán Cortés rescued Aguilar and engaged him as a translator during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Life and career
Aguilar wound up at the colony of Santa María la Antigua del Darién, founded in Panama in 1510.
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Because of ongoing disputes and divisions among the leaders of the colony, in 1511 Aguilar left Panama on a caravel sailing to Santo Domingo. He took with him legal documents for a case against the other faction of the colony, as well as a large sum of gold for the proceedings.
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