Editing Pedro de Alvarado (section)

==Death in the Mixtón War, 1541==
[[File:Pedro de alvarado telleriano remensis.jpg|thumb|300px|Alvarado's death, depicted in the indigenous [[Codex Telleriano-Remensis]]. The glyph to the right of his head represents his [[Nahuatl language|Nahuatl]] name, ''Tonatiuh'' ("Sun").]]
[[File:Antigua Guatemala, ruinas de la catedral 07.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Modern memorial stone in the ruins of [[Antigua Guatemala Cathedral|Antigua cathedral]], marking Pedro de Alvarado's tomb]]
Alvarado developed a plan to outfit an armada that would sail from the western coast of Mexico to China and the [[Maluku Islands|Spice Islands]]. At great cost, he assembled and equipped 13 ships and approximately 550 soldiers for the expedition.  The fleet was about to set sail in 1541 when Alvarado received a letter from [[Cristóbal de Oñate]], pleading for help against hostile Indians who were besieging him at [[Nochistlán]].<ref name="Diaz">Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, {{ISBN|0140441239}}</ref>{{rp|Ch.203}}

The siege was part of a major revolt by the [[Mixtón]] natives of the [[Nueva Galicia]] region of Mexico.  Alvarado gathered his troops and went to help Oñate. In a freak accident, he was crushed by a horse that was spooked and ran amok.<ref name=Diaz/>{{rp|Ch.203}}  Alvarado lay in agony before eventually dying a few days later, on July 4, 1541, and was buried in the church at Tiripetío, a village between [[Pátzcuaro]] and [[Morelia]] (in present-day [[Michoacán]]).

Four decades after Alvarado's death, his [[mestizo|mestiza]] daughter Leonor de Alvarado Xicoténcatl paid to transport his remains to Guatemala for reburial in the cathedral of the city of [[Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala]], now [[Antigua Guatemala]].