Editing Pedro de Alvarado (section)

==Family==
After the death of her husband, [[Beatriz de la Cueva]] maneuvered her own election and succeeded him as governor of Guatemala, becoming the only woman to govern a major political division of the Americas in Spanish colonial times.<ref name="UCIlist">{{cite web|title=Conquistador and Colonial Elites of Central America (list)|url=http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/linkages/datasets/p-connew.txt|publisher=University of California Irvine|author=Fabio Joseph Flouty|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616174716/http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/linkages/datasets/p-connew.txt|archive-date=June 16, 2010}}</ref>

Alvarado had no children from either of his legal marriages.  His life companion was his concubine Luisa de Tlaxcala (also called Xicoténcatl or Tecubalsi, her original names after Catholic baptism). She was a [[Nahua peoples|Nahua]] noblewoman, daughter of the [[Tlaxcallan]] King [[Xicotencatl the Elder]]. Luisa was given by her father in 1519 to [[Hernán Cortés]] as a proof of respect and friendship.  In turn Cortés  gave her ''in guard'' to Pedro de Alvarado,<ref name=Diaz/>{{rp|178}} who quickly and unremarkably became her lover. Luisa followed Alvarado in his pursuit of conquests beyond central Mexico. Despite never being his legitimate wife, Luisa de Tlaxcala had numerous possessions and was respected as a Doña, both for her relationship with Alvarado and for her noble origin. She died in 1535 and was buried at the Guatemala Cathedral.

With Luisa de Tlaxcala Pedro de Alvarado had three children: 
* Leonor de Alvarado y Xicotenga Tecubalsi, born in the newly founded Spanish city of [[Antigua Guatemala|Santiago de los Caballeros]], who married [[Pedro de Portocarrero (conquistador)|Pedro de Portocarrero]], a conqueror trusted by his father-in-law, whom he accompanied during the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala.  Portocarrero participated in numerous battles against the Indians.
: Leonor married a second time,<ref>According to the illustrious 17th-century historian father [[Domingo Juarros]] in his [[Compendio de la historia de la ciudad de guatemala]], pagina 347.</ref> to Francisco de la Cueva y Guzman.<ref name=Diaz/>{{rp|178–179}}  The Alvarado fortune remained with their descendants for generations to come, in the family of Villacreces de la Cueva y Guzmán, governors of this part of Guatemala.
* Pedro de Alvarado, named for his father,<ref name=Diaz/>{{rp|178}} who disappeared at sea when traveling to Spain
* Diego de Alvarardo, ''El [[Mestizo]]'', who died in 1554 in the civil wars of Peru.

By other women, in more casual relationships, he had two other children: 
* Gómez de Alvarado, without further notice
* Ana (Anita) de Alvarado