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Andrés de Urdaneta

1498 - 1568

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Andrés de Urdaneta (1508 – June 3, 1568) was a maritime explorer for the Spanish Empire of Basque heritage, who became an Augustinian friar. At the age of seventeen, he formed part of the Loaísa expedition to the Spice Islands where he spent more than eight years. Around 1540 he settled in New Spain and became an Augustinian friar in 1552. At the request of Philip II he joined the Legazpi expedition for a return to the Philippines. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrés de Urdaneta is the 134th most popular explorer (up from 139th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from Spain (up from 527th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Spanish Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 134 out of 498. Before him are Pánfilo de Narváez, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Juan de Grijalva, Sebastián de Belalcázar, Mary Kingsley, and Frederick Cook. After him are Mikhail Lazarev, João Vaz Corte-Real, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, George W. De Long, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, and Ranulph Fiennes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1498, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 7. Before him are Eleanor of Austria, Katharina von Bora, Meera, Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Maarten van Heemskerck, and Giulio Clovio. After him are Sophie of Pomerania, Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, Hieronymus Bock, Andreas Osiander, and Georg I, Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard. Among people deceased in 1568, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 9. Before him are Albert, Duke of Prussia, Jean Parisot de Valette, Lady Katherine Grey, Jacques Arcadelt, Lamoral, Count of Egmont, and Stanislaus Kostka. After him are Sophie of Pomerania, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Nicolaus Olahus, Christoph, Duke of Württemberg, and Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 450 out of 3,355. Before him are Manuel Santana (1938), Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (1873), María Casares (1922), Luis Ladaria Ferrer (1944), Junípero Serra (1713), and Alfonso IV of León (890). After him are Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (912), Joan of Navarre, Queen of England (1368), Serena (365), Infanta Cristina of Spain (1965), Garcilaso de la Vega (1501), and Petrus Gonsalvus (1537).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, Andrés de Urdaneta ranks 28. Before him are Juan de la Cosa (1460), Lope de Aguirre (1518), Pedro de Mendoza (1487), Pánfilo de Narváez (1478), Juan de Grijalva (1480), and Sebastián de Belalcázar (1480). After him are Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509), Rodrigo de Triana (1469), João da Nova (1460), Gaspar de Portolá (1716), Paulo da Gama (1465), and Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460).

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