Pedro de Oñate

(western New Spain). Oñate was born in 1504 in Vitoria, a town in the Basque province of Álava, Spain. His father was Juan Perez de Oñate and his mother was

participated in the expedition to the Collao, along with Gonzalo Pizarro and Pedro de Oñate, defeating Tiso Yupanqui in the battle of Cochabamba. Under the provision

great source of inspiration for later jurists like Grotius, Juan de Lugo or Pedro de Oñate [fr]. Born to a farmer father, Lessius grew up in a family of

other members of the School of Salamanca like Leonardus Lessius and Pedro de Oñate [fr]. Azpilcueta cogitated also on the concepts of commutative justice

imperial administration. The settlement of New Mexico began when Juan de Oñate led a group of colonizers into the territory in 1598, serving as governor