His prestige was enhanced by his founding of Caparra and appointment as military governor of Bimini, twenty years after serving as a page in the royal court of Aragon.  
His prestige was enhanced by his founding of Caparra and appointment as military governor of Bimini, twenty years after serving as a page in the royal court of Aragon.  His time as a captain under Nicolas de Ovando earned him the governorship of eastern Hispaniola, but could not save him from an arrow wound that led to his death in Cuba.  Earlier he had served, from 1508 to 1513 as governor of Puerto Rico.  FTP, name this Spanish explorer, who discovered Florida in the midst of his search for a fountain of youth.
His prestige was enhanced by his founding of Caparra and appointment as military governor of Bimini, twenty years after serving as a page in the royal court of Aragon.  
Juan Ponce de Leon