Gerónimo de Aguilar
Friar, conquistador enslaved by Mayans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with another conquistador in Cortés's expedition, the later Dominican friar and chonicler, Francisco de Aguilar (formerly Alonso de Aguilar).
Jerónimo de Aguilar O.F.M. (1489–1531) was a Franciscan friar born in Écija, Spain. Aguilar was sent to Panama to serve as a missionary. He was later shipwrecked on the Yucatán Peninsula in 1511 and captured by the Maya. In 1519 Hernán Cortés rescued Aguilar and engaged him as a translator during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.