Hi NancyO!
Coronado was not your run-of-the mill conquistador.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/Unit_2/Unit_IIQ2R4.html
The information here is compiled by PBS, so you can be sure you're
going to find excellent coverage of Coronado's life and journeys.
Click on the highlighted word "chronicle" to read a lengthy eyewitness
report of the expedition.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm
Coronado's search for gold led him all the way from Mexico to
present-day Kansas. Although he never found the gold, his explorations
are of historical importance because of his reports about the American
southwest before European contact.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/coronado.html
Coronado found no gold in his fruitless search for the fabled Seven
Golden Cities of Cibola, but it wasn't for lack of looking. From the
map provided here you can see how far this man travelled in his quest.
Due to his activities, Spain added an enormous amount of land to its
New World holdings. The text is very good and easy to follow.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (DesertUSA)
http://desertusa.com/mag98/sep/papr/coronado.html
Following a very nice article about Coronado and what he found on his
expedition, you'll find a brief quiz about what you've just read.
Images are provided, including one which shows the very first printed
picture of a buffalo.
The Story of Coronado
http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/hvn/books/nbstory/story1.html
Now, enough about Coronado. Who was his king? Let's see. Coronado was
born in 1510. The King of Spain that year was Ferdinand, but as you
can see, he would have had little impact on the explorations of
Coronado.
Next came Charles I (1516-56). "Charles was elected Holy Roman emperor
as Charles V and prepared to go to Germany. As Charles set sail (May
20, 1520), the Castilian revolution had already begun. The towns, led
by Toledo, formed a league and set up a revolutionary government. When
the more radical and popular elements in the cities were gaining
control of the comunero movement and beginning to spread it to the
nobles' estates did the nobles combine to raise an army and defeat the
comunero forces at Villalar (April 23, 1521)."
History (16th Centry)
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/tours/spain/h_16.html
You can learn about him here:
Charles V
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/tours/spain/charles5.html
It appears that Spain had a number of banners and flags under which
its explorers, conquistadors, and military personnel operated. If you
want to track the flags of Spain, check out this website:
Military Flags 1506-1700 (Spain)
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/es1506.html
According to this website, the Burgundy Cross is what Coronado might
have flown over his Spanish land acquisitions:
Burgundy Cross Flag 1506-1785
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/es1506.html#bur
"The 13 yellow and red rays represent both the Sun's rays and the
original 13 colonies of the United States of America. The colors red
and yellow are used because they were the colors of the flag of the
Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, who
entered Arizona in 1540 (looking for the legendary Seven Cities of
Cibola). The copper-colored star in the middle represents copper
mining, since Arizona produces more copper than any other state in the
USA."
Arizona's Flag
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/flags/arizona/
Hers'a good comprehensive look at Spain's flags during the time of
Coronado's life.
Historical Flags 1506-1700 (Spain)
http://fotw.unislabs.com/flags/es1506.html#gal
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Clarification of Answer by
revbrenda1st-ga
on
21 Nov 2002 09:28 PST
Hi again,
"The first European known to have set foot on the southeastern
mainland of North America was Spaniard Juan Ponce de León, who landed
on Florida's eastern coast in 1513. He likely brought the
castle-and-lion banner, as did Pedro Menéndez de Aviles who came fifty
years later to colonize La Florida (a broad area of the Southeast that
included present-day Georgia). In 1965, the U.S. and Spain designed a
stamp to be jointly issued commemorating the 400th anniversary of the
founding of St. Augustine. That stamp portrays Menéndez with a variant
of the castle-and-lion flag shown above."
Since Coronado's expeditions occurred within that time frame, it's
quite likely that he, too, carried the same banner.
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/spbanner.htm
Now a search for "Spanish flag 1541" led me to this page:
14 Flags Over Oklahoma
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ok/state/flags.html
You can view an image of the flag and read this description:
"According to the Oklahoma Historical Society; the first flag to fly
over, Oklahoma was brought to this area by Spanish explorers. The
flag, the Royal Standard of Spain, was brought to the Great Plains
area that included Oklahoma by Coronado and his followers in 1541. The
red-and-white quartered flag has a golden castle on the red and a red
lion on the white. The castle and lion represented royal houses
Castile and Leon, from which the King of Spain descended."
Do you need anything else? Just let me know.
Regards,
revbrenda1st
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