Hernando de Valle

Brief Biography

Hernando de Valle was in New Spain by 1529 and served under Guzmán in the conquest of Nueva Galicia. He was present at the 1540 muster as an unassigned horseman. He was a native of Olmedo (Valladolid province) and the son of Alonso de Valle and Juana Muñoz. Hernando stated in 1545 that he was a criado of Vázquez de Coronado and lived in his house in Guadalajara, this was while Vázquez de Coronado was governor of Nueva Galicia. Hernando remained in western Mexico when Vázquez de Coronado returned to Mexico City.

Gender
Male
Title (Y/N)
No
Date of Birth
ca. 1514
AGE-1540
26
Age Set
25-35
Country of Origin
Spain
Place of Birth (City/Town)
Olmedo
Place of Birth (modern province/state/region)
Valladolid
Died on the Expedition?
No
Last Known Location
Purificación, Mexico
Position on Expedition
Horseman
Within Viceroy Mendoza's Sphere
No
Post Expedition Occupation
Corregidor
Encomendero
Residence After Expedition
Colima, Purificación (Mexico)
Married
Yes
Name of Children
daughter
Ability to sign name
Yes
Relatives
father: Alonso de Valle; mother:Juana Muñoz
References-Documentary

1530-1540:

López-Portillo y Weber, La Conquista de La Nueva Galicia  [Valle, Hernando, p.167]

Leal, Fundadores, 107-08 [otros pobladores, 1529-1556, 1533: se fundó la villa de la Purificación con los siguientes pobladores: a Juan de Salamanca; an Hernando del Valle de Aranda de Duero (Cristóbal del Valle is from Aranda not Hernando)];

Tello, Libro Segundo  [p.30/253: Feb. 2, 1536, from Aranda de Duero, poblador of La Purificación (even though Tello says he is from Aranda he himself says he was from Olmedo) (he has mixed up Cristóbal and Hernando de Valle)]

1540-1550:

1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [2 horses, elk hide jacket, native arms]

González-Leal, Relación Secreta  [p. 78-81: Xalisco: Hernando de Valle, vecino de Purificación, tiene indios; p. 92: Vecinos de la Villa de la Purificación: Hernando del Valle];

AGI, Justicia, 339, N.1, R.1 [December 1544 and January 1545, witness: Valle, native of Olmedo in Castilla, vecino de la villa de Purificación, estante en la ciudad de México, about 30 years old, is de parte witness in Mexico City] [Valle could sign his name (no signature on copy) [este testigo se hallo e fue e volvio en la dicha jornada de Çibola] [este testigo gasto por el dicho francisco Vázquez mucha cantidad de pesos de oro e vio como los gastaron otros ansimismo por el...se pudo gastar los treynta mill castellanos] [criado of Vázquez de Coronado; in Coronado's house; in Coronado's company];

AGI, México, 1064, L.1\1, “Informes” [fol.254v] = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:11918 = Icaza, Diccionario, #1183 [vecino of La Purificación in Nueva Galicia; native of Olmedo; son of Alonso de Valle and Juana Muñoz; 18 years in Nueva España; served in Yopelçingos and in the governacion of Nueva Galicia with Vázquez de Coronado with whom he went to Tierra Nueva at his own cost; married, has a daughter; has an estancia of indias with 34 men and another 2 pueblos which don’t serve him and therefore he is in need];

Gerhard, North Frontier  [119: Hernando del Valle was encomendero of Eleca, Cabrayel, Judío, and Pochotitlan in the province of Purificación in 1548 and still in 1570];

AGI, Contaduría, 662 [account is taken of Hernando del Valle, corregidor of Ameca (which is in Colima) for period of two years ending in July 1547, salary 100 pesos]

1550-1560:

Papeles de Nueva España, “Suma de visitas,” #340 [La Estancia del Judio en Purificación; esta estancia tiene 13 casados y otros tantos solteros; dan 3 indios de servicio en una heredad de cacao y siembran un poco de maiz y dan algunos indios de servicio en la villa y miel y ftrua; es tierra caliente y fertil; tiene buenos pastos; La Estancia de Leca: tiene 17 casados y 12 solteros; dan 4 indios en la dicha heredad y 2 en la villa; siembran un poco de maiz y dan alguna miel y fruta; esta 2.5 leguas de la villa; Cabra e Ueyxula; estan de guerra, 15 leguas de la villa, avra 70 hombres; es tierra fertil para heredades y de grandes pastos; esta 4 leguas de la mar];

AGI, Justicia, 336, N.1 [testimony concerning certain pueblos, Compostela, spring 1552] [Hernando del Valle, 35+ years old, vecino de la villa de Purificación, estante en Compostela, is de parte witness in Compostela] [went on jornada] [could sign his name (no signature on copy);

1570-1580:

Fernández Sotelo, La Primigenia Audiencia Nueva Galicia ["Testimonio de los naturales que hay en los pueblos de Indios de Galicia", 20 Feb. 1570, Pueblo de Cabra y el Judío, Hernando del Valle, 120 indios, p.300];

Romero de Solís, Andariegos  [encomendero of Cabra or Cabrayel and Ueyxula which are "de guerra" and Pochotitlan, Leca or Eleca and Estancia del Judio (huerta de cacao) all near Purificación]