What country is sir francis drake,hernando cortez,and francisco pizzaro from?
Francis Drake was born in the parish of Crowndale, a mile south of Tavistock, Devon, probably in February or March 1540 [2]. He was one of two sons of Edmund Drake (1518–1585), a Protestant farmer who later became a preacher, and his wife Mary Mylwaye. He is sometimes confused with his cousin John Drake (1573–1634), who was the son of Edmund’s older brother, Richard Drake. (cf. John White, note 2). His maternal grandfather was Richard Mylwaye. He was reportedly named after his godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford,[3] and throughout his cousins’ lineages are direct connections to royalty and famous persons, such as Sir Richard Grenville, Ivor Callely , Amy Grenville, and Geoffrey Chaucer. However, James Froude states, “He told Camden that he was of mean extraction. He meant merely that he was proud of his parents and made no idle pretensions to noble birth. His father was a tenant of the Earl of Bedford, and must have stood well with him, for Francis Russell, the heir of the e
