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Luis Pounce de León (b. ca.
1461, d.
July 20,
1526,
Mexico City) was a Spanish judge and governor of
New Spain, from
July 4,
1526 to
July 16,
1526.
Luis Pounce de León was a learned man and a knight of
Cordoba. He was a friend and aide of the corregidor of
Toledo, Martín de Córdoba, conde de Alcaudete.
In 1525 or 1526 news of the rivalry between
Alonso de Estrada and
Gonzalo de Salazar in the governing of
New Spain reached
Madrid, as did rumors of the death of
Hernán Cortés at the hands of the
Indigenous. (Cortés hadn't been killed. He was absent from the capital on an expedition to
Honduras.) King
Charles I ordered a
juicio de residencia (a commission of inquiry) to investigate Cortés and ascertain the true situation in the colony, and the state of the interim government.
To carry out these orders, Charles named Luis Pounce de León as judge of the
residencia and governor of New Spain, at an annual salary of 3,000 ducats of gold. Ponce de León sailed from
Sanlúcar de Barrameda on
February 2,
1526. He was detained in
Hispaniola until
May 31,
1526 for repairs to his ship.
Pounce de León arrived in Mexico City and presented himself to the ayuntamiento (city government) on
July 5,
1526. He carried with him a decree from Toledo dated
November 4,
1525 granting him these powers.
He left all the officials of the ayuntamiento in their positions. He was about 65 years old and ill with fever contracted on his arrival in
Veracruz. The fever had continued through the 12-day journey to the capital and didn't let up even after his arrival there. After taking office, he retired from public occupations and then died. Before his death he turned over his functions to
Marcos de Aguilar, his assistant who had accompanied him to the colony. Aguilar also had a royal appointment. He took over the government on
July 16,
1526.
Four days later Pounce de León died. He was interred in the first parochial church in Mexico City, facing the Plaza Mayor.
Aguilar, also aged, also died after governing only a short while. Cortés was suspected of poisoning the two royal officials.
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