Francisco Hernández de Córdoba

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There were two Spanish conquistadores named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. One of them discovered the peninsula of Yucatán (though he died thinking that it was an island). The other founded Nicaragua. They were contemporaries, and neither has a known date of birth.

In some sources they are differentiated using the name "Hernández" for one and "Fernández" for the other. This only adds more confusion, because in the XVI century, in Spain, Hernández and Fernández were the same thing, as it happens with Hernando, Fernando, Hernán, Fernán, etc.

• Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (discoverer of Yucatán) (died 1517)
• Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua) (died 1526).