Diazdel Castillo

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal (d. 1560) accompanied Cortes to Mexico in 1519, taking a great part in the events that accompanied the conquest of that country, and eventually dying there. He wrote a history of the conquest, which was published at Madrid in 1632, and has proved of great value to subsequent chroniclers as being the work of an eyewitness of the deeds described.