Lope de Sosa was governor of the Canary Islands

. GOVERNOR LOPE2 DE SOSA (JUAN-ALONSO1 DE SOUSA)1 was born in Cordova, Andalucia, Spain, and died Jun 1520 in Darien, Old Panama, New Spain. He married INES DE CABRERA.

Notes for GOVERNOR LOPE DE SOSA:
1505-1519, Governor and Captain General of the Canary Islands.
Source: From the books,
Rivers of Gold, by Hugh Thomas. Page 350-353.
With All Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine. Page 74.
Mil Familias III, by Rodolfo Gonzalez de la Garza. Page 26.
Who's Who of the Conquistadors by Hugh Thomas. Page 385.
Glosas a la Casa de Cordova, by Don Francisco Fernandez de Bethencourt. Page 13.

Note: Poet Baltasar del Alcazar (1530-1606), in his poem “CENA JOCOSA”, Oxford, Clarendon Press wrote about Lope de Sosa and his wife Ines, and that they lived in Jaen.
Lope de Sosa and his wife Dona Ines de Cabrera were originally from city of Cordoba, Spain.
Lope served as the acting Governor of the Canary Islands, and later he was appointed Governor of Tierra Firme, Castilla de Oro, Old Panama.

In 1530, his eldest son, Don Juan Alonso de Sosa, was appointed Royal Treasurer of Nueva Espana. While in Mexico City, Juan Alonso was married to Dona Ana de Estrada, the daughter of the former Royal Treasurer, Don Alonso de Estrada and Dona Mariana Gutierrez Flores de la Caballeria.

This is the FIRST recorded Sosa in the New World.

Children of LOPE DE SOSA and INES DE CABRERA are:
6. i. JUAN-ALONSO3 (SOSA) DE CABRERA, d. 1564, Nueva Galicia, New Spain (Mexico).
7. ii. PEDRO CABRERA-DE-SOSA.
iii. BEATRIZ DE SOSA.
iv. MARIA DE SOSA, m. FERNANDO ARIAS-DE-SAAVEDRA.
8. v. JUANA DE SOSA-CABRERA, d. Mexico City, D. F., New Spain (Mexico).