Pedro Arias Dávila

Pedrarias Dávila (Pedro Arias de Ávila) y Ortiz de Cota (Segovia, Castile, c. 1468 – León, March 6, 1531, aged 63), was a Spanish colonial administrator. He led the first great Spanish expedition in the New World. For the date of birth, refer to Aram, Bethany. Leyenda negra y leyendas doradas en la conquista de América: Pedrarias y Balboa. Madrid: Marcial Pons historia, 2008.

Pedro Arias Dávila was born into one of the most influential aristocratic families of 15th century Spain. He was the grandson of King Henriquez IV's Converso Accountant, General Diego Arias de Ávila, who died in 1466, and Elvira González, who died in 1463. Diego and Elvira were the parents of three children. Their two male offspring were Pedro, (the father of Pedro Arias Dávila) who died in 1476 while fighting took place in Madrid, and Juan, who later became Bishop of Segovia and died in Rome, Italy, in 1497. Diego and Elvira's third child was Isabel, who died in 1472. Isabel's descendants lived continuously in Segovia and could be tracked afterwards in 16th century Inquisition records and trials.

Pedro, son of Diego and Elvira and father of Pedro Arias Dávila, married a woman from Toledo María Ortiz de Cota. They had nine children, who were:

He married towards the end of 1485 an intimate friend of queen Isabella I of Spain, (whence probably his preferment), Isabel de Bobadilla y Peñalosa (Isabel Fernández de Bobadilla), deceased Madrid 1531, the daughter of Francisco de Bobadilla (Francisco Fernández de Bobadilla), deceased on the Atlantic Ocean, July 1502, when he comeback Spain, the armada or flotte was surprised by huracan, and 20 of 30 vassels was wrecked, Francisco Fernández de Bobadilla was Governor since 21 May 1499, of the Island "La Española", now divided in two parts: Haiti and the Republic of Santo Domingo and María, being the niece of powerful family of the Marchioness of Moya, province of Cuenca, and Marchioness of Peñalosa, Beatriz Fernández de Bobadilla, deceased at Madrid on 10 September 1511, married to Royal Accountant from Cuenca, Andrés de Cabrera, deceased also at Madrid, 4 October 1511, some 3 weeks later.

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