# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alonso-de-contreras
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:08:17.019Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alonso-de-contreras"
name: "Alonso de Contreras"
slug: "alonso-de-contreras"
description: "Alonso de Contreras was a Spanish soldier, spy, privateer, and writer, best known as the author of his autobiography; one of the very few autobiographies of Spanish soldiers under the Spanish Habsburgs and possibly one of the finest, together with the True History of the Conquest of New Spain  by Bernal Diaz del Castillo."
tagline: "Spanish privateer and writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Alonso_de_Contreras_Derrotero_Universal_1.jpg/330px-Alonso_de_Contreras_Derrotero_Universal_1.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1582-01-06"
deathDate: "1641"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.44
  momentum:             15.51948051948052
  historical:           9.452488
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ألونسو دي كونتريراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Contreras"
    title: "Alonso de Contreras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%B5"
    title: "Контрерас, Алонсо де"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1083552"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump