Ponce de León was born into a highborn family April 8th, 1460 in León, Spain. He served as a page in the royal court of Argon. He also received education in fighting skills, manners, and religion while serving a knight named, Pedro Nunez de Guzman, and then later helped in the ten-year defeat of Muslim kingdom of Granada in southern Spain.
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