Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Born	c. 1462 Palos de la Frontera, Crown of Castile
Died	c. 1514 Triana, Seville
Nationality	Castilian
Occupation	Explorer
Known for	Captain of the Niña
Home town	Palos de la Frontera
Spouse(s)	Teresa Rodríguez, Ana Núñez de Trujillo
Children	Ana Rodríguez, Juana González
Parent(s)	Martín Pinzón, Mayor Vicente
Relatives	Pinzón brothers

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (Spanish pronunciation: [βiˈsẽnte̯ ˈɟ͡ʝãɲe̯θ pĩnˈθõn]; Palos de la Frontera, Spain, c. 1462 – after 1514) was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador, the younger of the Pinzón brothers. Along with his older brother, Martín Alonso Pinzón (c. 1441 – c. 1493), who captained the Pinta, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the Niña.

Pinzón was born in Palos de la Frontera on the Atlantic coast of Huelva, youngest of the three famous sons of seaman Martín Pinzón and his wife Mayor Vicente. His birth year is uncertain; it is generally given as c. 1462; Juan Gil concludes from legal documents that his two daughters were over the age of 20 in 1509, that it certainly cannot be later than 1469. 1469 would be quite a late date, given that there is record of him being a corsair or privateer (with his older brother Martín Alonso) in Mediterranean waters between 1477 and 1479 when other towns failed to provide Palos with an adequate supply of grain in wartime.

He married twice: first to Teresa Rodríguez, by whom he had two daughters, Ana Rodríguez Pinzón and Juana González Pinzón; second, probably in 1509, to Ana de Trujillo, who some surviving documents refer to as "Ana Núñez de Trujillo".

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