Conín (also known by his Christian name Hernando [Fernando] de Tapia) was a Native American conquistador of the Otomí people, who helped the Spaniards conquer territories in the central part of Mexico during the 16th century. In the Otomí language his name means "Thunder."
Conín was born in Nopala in the Xilotepec province (modern state of Hidalgo), most likely in the late 15th century. Before the conquest he traded blankets, salt, hides, and other goods among the Chichimecas, Otomís, Tlaxcalans, and Mexica. After the conquest of Tenochtitlan by the Spanish in 1521, Conín left Xilotepec with his family and lived with the Chichimeca tribes in Andamaxei (Otomí for "Place of the Ball Game") in the Bajío (present day Querétaro).[1][2]
Conversionedit
Around 1528 or 1529 the conquistador Hernán Pérez de Bocanegra (along with a contingent of warriors from the newly conquered Tarascan Empire) arrived in the region seeking to make an alliance with Conín.[2][3] Conín had seen the power of the Spanish first hand and worked with Bocanegra to bring the region under Spanish control peacefully. Accepting Spanish control also meant accepting Roman Catholicism and Conín was the first to be baptized, taking the Christian name Hernando (Fernando) de Tapia. He took the name Hernando from Hernán Pérez de Bocanera and Tapia from the conquistador Andrés de Tapia.[1][2]
Foundation of Querétaroedit
When Hernán Pérez de Bocanegra initially arrived at Andamaxei, his Tarascan allies called it Queréndaro which means "Place of Pines" in the Purepecha language. This became the origin for the name of the town that would be founded by Conín and Juan Sánchez de Alanís, a servant of Bocanegra who was fluent in the Otomí language. Between 1531 and 1540 the growth of the Spanish population in the settlement was slow.[4] During the 1540s the real work of foundation began with the construction of irrigation ditches and an influx of Spanish, Otomí, Nahua, and other indigenous tribes attracted by the fertile land and relative peace.[5]
Historyedit
In 1521, the Spanish arrived in México, and soon conquered indigenous populations all over the country. Cristobal de Olid entered the Querétaro region the following year. Although the arrival of Spaniards was generally met with resistance by the indigenous cultures, the Otomí people aligned themselves with the Spaniards and fought beside them to defeat the Aztecs living in the Querétaro region. As a demonstration of loyalty, the Otomi leader Conin converted to Roman Catholicism between the years 1522 and 1526 and changed his name to Fernando de Tapia.[6] In 1531 the city of Santiago de Querétaro was planned by Juan Sánchez de Alaniz and Conin.[7]
Legends and Traditionedit
According to tradition, the conquest of Querétaro was accomplished without resorting to arms after seeing a vision of the Cross and Saint James the Great ("Santiago"), after whom the city was named.[8][9]
Referencesedit
^ abLastra, Yolanda; Suárez, Yolanda Lastra de (2006). Los otomíes: su lengua y su historia (in Spanish). UNAM. ISBN9789703233885.
^ abcCruz Mendoza, Rey David (2010). Conín Tetlatollo (Fernando de Tapia)(PDF) (in Spanish). Nopala, Hidalgo, Mexico.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^"Portal de Querétaro". www.queretaro.gob.mx. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
^Quintanar-Miranda, María Cristina (October 2, 2014). "Pames, Otomíes y Españoles en los Valles Centrales Queretanos, Contacto Cultural en las Primeras Décadas de Siglo XVI" [Pames, Otomíes and Spaniards in the Central Valleys of Querétaro. Cultural Contact in the First Decades of the Sixteenth Century] (PDF). CIENCIA@UAQro (in Spanish).
^Wright, David (1993). "La Conquista del Bajío y los Orígenes de San Miguel Allende" [The Conquest of the Bajío and the Origins of San Miguel Allende]. Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia (in Spanish). XXXVI: 251–294. ISSN 0188-7416.
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