Pedro Alonso Niño
Biography
Pedro Alonso Niño (c. 1455 – c. 1505) was a Spanish explorer. He piloted the Santa María during Christopher Columbus‘s first voyage to the Americas in 1492, and accompanied him on his third voyage in 1498 to Trinidad.
After just two months they were back in Bayona, Spain, loaded with wealth. However, they were accused of cheating King Ferdinand II out of his portion of the spoils.[3] Arrested, and with his property confiscated, Niño died before the conclusion of his trial.
There is a monument to Pedro Alonso Niño in the Convent of San Francisco in Moguer.[6]
See also
Notes
- ^ Martone, Eric (2008). Encyclopedia of Blacks in European history and culture. Greenwood Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0313344480.
- ^ Howard, Dodson; Palmer, Colin, eds. (2008). Origins. Michigan State University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0870138171.
- ^ a b c “Niño, Pedro Alonso”. The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1905.
- ^ deP. Cassidy, Vincent H. (1959). “Columbus and “The Negro““. The Phylon Quarterly. 20 (3): 294–96. doi:10.2307/273057. JSTOR 273057.
- ^ Alice Bache Gould, Nueva Lista Documentada De Los Tripulantes De Colon En 1492, Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia, Tomo CLXX, Número II, 1973, passim., including p. 80. However, as noted on p. 293, some near-contemporaries place him as pilot of La Niña.
- ^ Ropero-Regidor, Diego (February 2019). “Los lugares colombinos de Huelva: historia, cultura y naturaleza”. Revista PH (in Spanish). Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (96): 58–67. doi:10.33349/2019.96.4292. ISSN 2340-7565.
References
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana. This source gives around 1455 as the year of his birth.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
