Luis de Carvajal, el Conquistador, bore the title "Admiral" and later "Governor of the New Kingdom of Leon," a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Luis, his parents and siblings arrived at the port of Tampico in the entourage of this famous uncle in 1580. In the New World they, along with thousands of other Jews, hoped to find a refuge from the fires of the Inquisition.
.__Notes for CAPTAIN LUIS CARVAJAL-Y-DE-LA-CUEVA:__Conquistador. Between 1582 and 1584, he served as Governor of Nuevo Leon. His desire for power was his down fall.__Source:From the book's,__The Martyr by Martin A. Cohen__Gallant Outcasts - Texas Turmoil 1519-1734 by Ben Cuellar Ximenes.__Northern New Spain, A Research Guide by Thomas C. Barnes, Thomas H. Naylor, and Charles W. Polzer._