Diego de Montemayor was a Spanish conquistador, explorer, officer, and the governor of Nuevo Reino de León.
Background
However, Antonio Morales Goméz and Carlos Pérez Maldonado have stated, without proving it, that Montemayor was born in the year 1530. In the Catalogo de Pasajeros a Indias, a certain "Diego de Montemayor" appears to have sailed toward New Spain from Sevilla, he is described to be a neighbor of Málaga, son of Juan de Montemayor and Mayor Hernández, and the husband of Inés Rodríguez.
Career
Montemayor is credited with the founding of Monterrey, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, on September 20, 1596. The establishment was officially called Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey ("Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey," partly to curry favor from the Viceroy of the time, the Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey. Montemayor"s founding was the third effort.
Montemayor brought forty people with him from Saltillo to populate Monterrey.
Nine married couples, three men without families, fourteen boys, four girls, and one Indian named Domingo Manuel.