 Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva

Luis de Carvajal (sometimes Luis de Carabajal y de la Cueva) (–13 February 1591) was governor of the Spanish province of Nuevo León in present-day Mexico, an alleged slave trader, and the first Spanish subject known to have entered Texas from Mexico across the lower Rio Grande.He was a Portuguese-born, Spanish-Crown officer, who was awarded a large swath of territory in New Spain, known as Nuevo Reino de León, in 1579.