Alvarado, Pedro de (Alvara`do, Pedro de) , one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico, and comrade of Cortez; was appointed Governor of Guatemala by Charles V. as a reward for his valiant services in the interest of Spain; was a generous man as well as a brave.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Alva, Duke of * Alvarez, Francesco