Alonso Fern%C3%A1ndez de Lugo

Javier Alonso Luis Fernndez de Lugo was a Spanish military man, conquistador, city founder, and administrator. He conquered the islands of La Palma and Tenerife for the Castilian Crown they were the last of the Canary Islands to be conquered by Europeans. He was also the founder of the towns of San Cristbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Santa Cruz de La Palma. One biographer has written that his personality was a terrible mixture of cruelty and ambition or greed, on one part, and on the other a great capacity and sense for imposing order and government on conquered lands, a trait found in the conquistadors of the New World.

Fernndez de Lugo was born in Sanlcar de Barrameda, in Spain, during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, though his family was of Galician origin his relatives, as his surname indicates, originated in the city of Lugo and other Galician locales.

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