Hernando de Soto: The Forgotten Conquistador

Early life. Hernando de Soto was born around the late 1490s or early 1500s in Extremadura, Spain, to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means. ...

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5 Sept 2025 — Hernando de Soto (b. c. 1496/97–d. 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and ...

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De Soto was born on 2 June 1941 in Arequipa ; In exile, de Soto was educated in Switzerland where he attended the International School of Geneva ; His younger ...

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2 Aug 2023 — QUICK FACTS · Name: Hernando de Soto · Birth Year: 1500 · Birth City: Jerez de los Caballeros · Birth Country: Spain · Gender: Male · Best Known ...

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9 Nov 2009 — He was born c. 1496 in Jerez de los Caballeros, Bajadoz province. De Soto's family was of minor nobility and modest means, and at a very young ...

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Hernando de Soto was born on October 27, 1500, in the Extremadura area in Spain. He was a Spanish explorer and colonialist who is best known for his role in the ...

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29 Apr 2020 — Hernando de Soto was born around 1500 in the Extermadura region of Spain. De Soto was the second born son to a minor country noble or Hidalgo.

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