Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (died 1548) was one of the first Spanish explorers in the Americas and one of the last four survivors of Panfilo de Narvaez's expedition to Florida in 1527.
Biography[]
Alosno del Castillo Maldonado was born in Salamanca, Spain, and he took part in Panfilo de Narvaez's 1527 expedition to Florida. Castillo, Andres Dorantes de Carranza, Estevanico, and Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca were the only four survivors of the 300-man expedition, and they managed to make it back to Mexico City in 1536 after a long journey. In 1541, he returned to Spain to claim his father's inheritance, staying there briefly before returning to the Americas. He became treasurer of Guatemala in 1545, became a trial witness in 1547, and died circa 1548.