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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral and explorer from the region of Asturias, Spain, who is remembered for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys and for founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. This was the first successful Spanish settlement in La Florida and the most significant city in the region for nearly three centuries. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously-inhabited, European-established settlement in the continental United States. He was also the first governor of Florida (1565-74). Menéndez subsequently became the first governor of colonial Florida.〔Viele, John (1999). ''The Florida Keys: True stories of the perilous straits''. Pineapple Press Inc, p. 20. ISBN 1-56164-179-0.〕 ==Biography== Menéndez had made his career in the Spanish Navy, in the service of the king, Philip II of Spain. His initial plans for a voyage to Florida revolved around searching for his son, Juan, who had been shipwrecked there in 1561. Following the founding of Fort Caroline in present-day Jacksonville by French Huguenots under René Goulaine de Laudonnière, he was commissioned to conquer the peninsula as ''Adelantado''. He established Saint Augustine, or San Agustín, in 1565; then he seized Fort Caroline and displaced the French. His position as governor now secure, Menéndez explored the area and built additional fortifications. He returned to Spain in 1567 and was appointed governor of Cuba, in October of that year. He voyaged to ''La Florida'' for the last time in 1571, with 650 settlers for Santa Elena, as well as his wife and family.〔 Menéndez died at Santander, Spain, in 1574. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pedro Menéndez de Avilés」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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