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Beatriz de la Cueva de Alvarado ( c. 1498 – 11 September 1541), nicknamed "La Sinventura" ("The Unfortunate") was a Spanish noblewoman from Úbeda in Andalucia who became the governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala for a few days in September 1541, before being killed by an earthquake shortly after taking office.
Beatriz de Valencia de la Cueva y Benavides. Nacimiento. 1490. Úbeda (de la comarca de La Loma en el Reino de Jaén, uno de los cuatro de Andalucía) Corona de Castilla. Fallecimiento. 11 de septiembre de 1541 (51años) Santiago de Guatemala (de la gobernación homónima) Imperio español.
reign as governor. …1541 in Jalisco, his widow, Beatriz de la Cueva, succeeded him as governor of Guatemala, chosen by leading officials in the Guatemalan capital upon news of Alvarado’s death. The rule of Doña Beatriz, however, lasted but two days, for she died when a massive flood and mud slide destroyed the….
Cueva, Beatriz de la. Úbeda (Jaén), p. s. XVI – Guatemala, 10.IX.1541. Dama, segunda esposa de Pedro de Alvarado. Perteneciente a la nobleza española. Sobrina del duque de Alburquerque, su llegada a las Indias tuvo lugar en 1539 acompañando a su esposo, Pedro de Alvarado, quien había estado casado anteriormente con la hermana de Beatriz ...
Beatriz de la Cueva de Alvarado , nicknamed "La Sinventura" was a Spanish noblewoman from Úbeda in Andalucia who became the governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala for a few days in September 1541, before being killed by an earthquake shortly after taking office.
Beatriz de la Cueva de Alvarado (c. 1498 – 11 September 1541), nicknamed "La Sinventura" - "the unfortunate" - was a Spanish noblewoman from Úbeda in Andalucia who became the governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala for a few days in September 1541. She was killed by an earthquake shortly after taking office.
El cuerpo sin vida de Beatriz de la Cueva, fue enterrada en la iglesia catedral de Santiago con honores de gobernadora, pues aunque brevemente, fue la primera gobernadora de la historia de Guatemala. Te puede interesar: Santa Rafaela María Porras y Ayllón, la humildad en persona
Beatriz de la Cueva , segunda esposa del conquistador Pedro de Alvarado , murió la noche siguiente, al derrumbarse la capilla en la que se había refugiado junto a sus doncellas cuando una riada ...
Beatriz de la Cueva. Birth. 1498. Ubeda, Provincia de Jaén, Andalucia, Spain. Death. 11 Sep 1541 (aged 42–43) Antigua, Municipio de Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. Burial. Catedral de San José.
CUEVA, Beatriz de la (kway'-vah), wife of Pedro de Alvarado, the conqueror of Guatemala, born in Spain early in the 16th century; died in the City of Guatemala, 11 September 1541. When Alvarado returned to Central America, after his second voyage to Spain in 1539, he had married there Dona Beatriz, a sister of his first wife, Dona Francisca de ...