Maestre Anes

Maestre Anes (circa 1500; † 1542/45, also “Juan Alemán de Aquisgrán”, “Hans from Aachen”) was a member of the first circumnavigation under Ferdinand Magellan 1519–1522 and one of the 18 surviving returnees under Elcano.

They tried to get back to Mexico across the Pacific, but failed just like the Trinidad a few years earlier and returned to the Moluccas, where the crew fell into the hands of the Portuguese.

Only four survivors of the Loaisa and Saavedra expedition were able to return to Europe in 1534, including Hans, the only one of Elcano's veterans, who became the first person to circumnavigate the world twice.

[3] In 1542 he took part in the Villalobos Expedition via Mexico with the destination Philippines, but apparently died on this journey at an unknown location[3] Maestre Anes (Hans von Aachen) is often confused in older literature with Hans Varga,[1] another German-born circumnavigator of the Magellan expedition who died during that voyage.

With two completed and one started circumnavigations of the world, Hans von Aachen was probably the furthest traveled person until the journeys of Loyolas.