Hernan Peraza the Elder

[4] During the 1430s he would act in the Canary Islands on behalf of Guillén de las Casas and his father-in-law Juan, who owned the rights to them.

The death of Guillén Peraza becomes a highly significant and impactful moment in the history of the Canary Islands politically and culturally.

It sparks sadness and outrage among nobles in the Castillian mainland and drove his father Hernán to an increasingly brutal repression of the native people.

They arrived in Gran Canaria, but they do not get to disembark due to a large number of hostile aborigines concentrated on the beaches of the bay of the Islets.

With the intercession of the island princess captivated by Juan Machín, Peraza achieved the submission of the aboriginal king Osinisa.

Once the island was dominated, Peraza founded the town of Valverde and left his relative Luis González Martel de Tapia as governor, who married a daughter of the deposed Bimbache king.

Peraza took him as a servant, baptizing him with the name of Antón and who, years later, would return to the island and would be the one to instruct the Guanche people on the image of the Virgin of Candelaria.

"Torre del Conde," the tower constructed by Hernán Peraza The Elder in 1450.