Pedro Fernández de Lugo

Pedro Fernández de Lugo (1475–1536) is the second adelantado of the Canary Islands and governor of Tenerife and La Palma, a title confirmed again by Charles I of Spain, in Barcelona, on August 17, 1519.

It is an inherited title.

The current Rightful Successor of the title "Adelantado of the Canaries Islands Tenerife and La Palma" is Felix Alberto Lugo 3rd.

Pedro Fernández de Lugo is the son of Alonso Fernández de Lugo.

Born in Seville, Pedro arrives at Gran Canaria as a young child and later accompanies his father to expeditions to Barbary.

In 1509, his father gives him some of the rights and powers over the coast of Africa that he had acquired in 1499.

Pedro commands the tower of Santa Cruz de Mar Pequeña and participates in expeditions against the Berbers alongside the Portuguese.

At the age of sixty, he participates in an expedition to present-day Colombia in the New World.

Backed financially by Cristóbal Francesquini and Juan Alberto Gerardini, a Florentine residing in Tenerife from 1510, Pedro Fernández de Lugo departes in 1535.

He arrives at Santa Marta in 1536.

He dies there that year.

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