Person

Alonso de Estrada

colonial official in New Spain

b. 1470 CE – d. 1537 CE World The Far West

Alonso de Estrada (b. ca.

1470, Ciudad Real, Spain, d. 1533-37, Mexico City) is a colonial official in New Spain during the period of Hernán Cortés's government, and before the appointment of the first viceroy.

He is a member of the triumvirates that governs the colony for several short periods between 1524 and 1528, in the absence of Cortés.