José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda
José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda was born on May 19, 1700. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda
José de Escandón y Helguera, conde de Sierra (May 19, 1700, Soto de la Marina, Cantabria, Spain – September 10, 1770, Querétaro, New Spain) was a Spanish fighter against indigenous people in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander, which extended from the Pánuco River in the modern-day Mexican state of Tamaulipas to the Guadalupe River in the modern-day U.S. state of Texas.