Vincente de Valverde was a Spanish bishop. He was born in Oropesa (Toledo), Spain about 1490 and most sources claim he died in Isla Puna, Ecuador, in 1543. He was a Dominican friar, and went to Peru about 1530, although it is not certain whether he accompanied Francisco Pizarro from Spain or arrived at San Miguel de Piura in 1531 with re-enforcements from Panama. He was born at Segovia, Spain towards the close of the fifteenth century, as the son of Francisco de Valverde and Ana Alvarez de Vallegada, and was related to many noble families, in particular, to that of Francisco Pizarro, the conquistador of Peru, and that of Hernan Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico. Valverde became a professed member of the Dominicans at the convent of San Esteban at Salamanca in April, 1524.