Francisco de Montejo (the Nephew)

[1] On May 28, 1543[2] he founded the town of Valladolid (now part of the Mexican state of Yucatán) on the banks of the Chouac-Ha lagoon.

Valladolid is still known in the contemporary Yucatec Maya language as Saki, the modernized spelling of Zací.

In the third phase of the conquest of Yucatán, he attended the first garrison in San Pedro Champotón, a locality in which the native people began to pay tribute to the Spaniards.

Anticipating that the caciques would conspire against the Spaniards, "El Sobrino" kidnapped the principal lords of the area and led them to his cousin in Tabasco, where they renewed vows of obedience to the crown.

[4] "El Sobrino" lived his final years in Mérida, where he died as a councilman in 1572, at the age of 55.