Editing Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (section)

==Early life==
Vázquez de Coronado was born into a noble family in [[Salamanca, Spain|Salamanca]], Spain, in 1510 as the second son of Juan Vázquez de Coronado and Isabel de Luján. Juan Vázquez held various positions in the administration of the recently captured [[Emirate of Granada]] under [[Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones|Íñigo López de Mendoza]], its first Christian governor.<ref name=Flint>{{cite web |url=http://newmexicohistory.org/people/francisco-vazquez-de-coronado |title=Francisco Vázquez de Coronado |last1=Flint |first1=Richard |last2=Flint |first2=Shirley Cushing |publisher=New Mexico Office of the State Historian |access-date=October 1, 2014}}</ref>

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado went to [[New Spain]] (present-day Mexico) in 1535 at about age 25, in the entourage of its first [[List of Viceroys of New Spain|Viceroy]], [[Antonio de Mendoza]], the son of his father's patron and Vázquez de Coronado's personal friend.<ref name=Flint/> In New Spain, he married twelve-year-old Beatriz de Estrada, called "the Saint" (''la Santa''), sister of Leonor de Estrada, ancestor of the de Alvarado family and daughter of [[Treasurer]] and [[Governor]] Alonso de Estrada y Hidalgo, Lord of [[Picón]], and his wife Marina Flores Gutiérrez [[De la Caballeria|de la Caballería]], from a [[converso]] [[Sefardi Jews|Jewish]] family.<ref>[http://pages.prodigy.net/bluemountain1/estrada1.htm estrada1<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513011454/http://pages.prodigy.net/bluemountain1/estrada1.htm |date=2008-05-13 }}</ref> Vázquez de Coronado inherited a large portion of a Mexican [[Encomienda|''encomendero'']] estate through Beatriz and had eight children by her. <!-- It has been affirmed repeatedly and unfoundly that Beatriz's father was a bastard son of King [[Ferdinand V of Castile]], the Catholic, but no documentary proof exists to prove this assertion. -- comment hidden as I can find no reliable source on either side of this question, just lots of blogs and such. -->