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Menendez married the sister of Chief Carlos

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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On the 10th of February, 1566, he [Menendez] set out again [from Havana], with seven ships, soldiers, and provisions, for the purpose of returning to San Agustin. On the way he stopped at the province of Carlos. 17. [Bolton note: For the origin of the name Carlos, see Lowery, Florida, 231, and authorities cited by him in note 2.] Entering the bay of this name,t [Arredondo note t In the Gulf of Mexico, 26° 15'. The chief of this province had been for twenty years called Carlos, because he had learned from some Spaniards who were ship-wrecked in that vicinity that Carlos V was the greatest king in the world: and believed that by taking his name he would become his equal in majesty and power.] he contracted an alliance with the cacique and his people, leaving the minds of those Indians prepared to receive holy baptism and to become vassals of the king of Spain. 
This [baptism] they [Carlos Indians] did in the following year, for, on returning to this province he [Menendez] not only left in it two Jesuit fathers, with Francisco Reynoso and forty soldiers, but likewise in the neighboring provinces of Tocobaga and Tequesta he left thirty more in charge of captains, with a presidio in each one. 18. 
 [Bolton note: The "alliance" formed with Carlos, chief of the Caloosas, was contracted by the marriage of Menendez with the chief's sister. She was taken to Havana to be educated.