Brief Life History of Juana
When Juana Ponce de León y Ponce de León was born in 1500, in La Altagracia, Dominican Republic, her father, Capitan y Gobernador Juan Ponce de León, was 26 and her mother, Leonor Ponce de León, was 22. She married García Troche y de Monroy on 24 September 1519, in San Juan Bautista, Maricao, Puerto Rico. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1527, in Parroquia San Juan Bautista, Maricao, Maricao, Puerto Rico, at the age of 27.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Article about her son Juan Troche Ponce de Leon, grandson of Juan Ponce de Leon
- Juan Ponce de Leon, pasajero a Indias
- Ancestry Family Trees
World Events (3)
1501
The Spanish Crown permitted export of slaves to America.
1508
Spanish colonization begins.
1509
Ponce de Leon served as governor of Puerto Rico.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Manuel, Juan, Luis, Jesus, Carlos, Francisco, Jorge, Miguel, Pedro, Raul, Roberto.
Spanish and French: from the medieval personal name Ponce, ultimately from Pontius, a Roman surname, perhaps an ethnic name for someone from Pontus (named from Greek pontos ‘ocean’) in Asia Minor, or an Italic cognate of Latin Quintus ‘fifth’ (i.e. ‘fifth-born’). The name was borne by two 3rd-century Christian saints, a Carthaginian deacon and a martyr of Nice, but was not widely popular in the Middle Ages because of the inhibiting influence of the even more famous Pontius Pilate. In some cases though, the surname may have been originally used for someone who had played the part of this character in a religious play.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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