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Diego de Montemayor

c. 1530–1611 · 16th century

Diego de Montemayor was a Spanish settler and official who founded the city of Monterrey on 20 September 1596. A lieutenant of Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva in the New Kingdom of León, he took over the colony after Carvajal's arrest by the Inquisition and refounded its abandoned settlement as Nuestra Señora de Monterrey. He governed the province until his death.

Diego de Montemayor
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New Kingdom of León

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