Spanish lawyer and colonial official in New Spain and Guatemala
1480 CE
to 1548 CE
Alonso de Maldonado Diez de Ledesma (born 1480 Salamanca, Spain) is a Spanish lawyer and a member of the Second Audiencia of Mexico City, which governs New Spain from January 10, 1531 to April 16, 1535.
He is also president of the First Audiencia of Guatemala, and in that capacity interim governor of Guatemala from 1536 to September 15, 1539.
He is governor of Guatemala a second time, from 1542 to 1548.