Chalices of Cartagena

"Why are you here?" "Blackbeard sent me. Why you?" "Silver chalices from a royal liege." "Oh, please."

- Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow while in the Santiago

The Chalices of Cartagena were a pair of identical silver chalices. The chalices were one of the key items in the search for the Fountain of Youth in 1750.

History
It is unknown when the chalices were made, but it is possible that they were made in Spain. Though the chalices looked almost identical, one of them was inscribed with the word "Aqua", and the other with "de Vida"; the Water of Life. Sometime at the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the chalices were stolen from the city of Cartagena, and placed onboard the Santiago, a ship of Juan Ponce de León.

In the 1520s, Ponce de León was sent to explore the New World. During the journey, he kept the chalices in a chest in his cabin, along with other treasures. But, in 1523, while searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth, the Santiago was caught in a storm, and wrecked on the edge of the cliff on the unnamed island.

Two centuries later, a notorious pirate Edward Teach "Blackbeard" became interested in the Fountain, as well as the Spanish, who discovered the ship's log of the Santiago.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides