Twenty-second Governor of New Mexico, 1668-1671. WPA Writers Project By Grace Meredith Captain Don Juan de Medrano y Mesia was the twenty‑second governor of New Mexico, and unfortunately only a little information concerning him and his activities, is to be found in any of the historical works now…
Governor Manuel Portillo Urrisola, 1760-1762 by RickHendricks, Ph.D. Manuel Portillo Urrisola was a native of Valencia, Spain. He entered the royal service in 1717 army and continued as a soldier and cadet in the Dragoons of Belgium until 20 January 1735. During that time he participated in the Navarra…
A representative of Spain, Don Juan O'Donojú, signed the Treaty of Córdoba with Iturbide on August 24, 1821, to signify Spain's acceptance of the Plan de Iguala and recognition of the independence of Mexico. However, King Ferdinand VII denied O'Donojú's authority to sign the treaty and declared it illegal…
by Grace Meredith Anyone not intimately acquainted with the history and teaching of the Catholic Church, will find it most difficult to understand the real significance of Spanish history during this early period, and to sense subconsciously much less consciously, the inner organism of the religious and political activities….
General Don Juan Flores de Sierra y Valdes, eleventh governor of New Mexico, was appointed to office by the new viceroy, the Duque de Escalona, in Mexico City in 1641. Because of the serious disputes between the civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions and the confusing reports from both authorities, Valdes…
By Rick Hendricks Born to Lorenzo de Samaniego y Jaca and Catalina Díez de Ulzurrun y Roncal in Estella in the Basque province of Navarra, don Juan de Samaniego y Díez de Ulzurrun Jaca y Roncal, donned the habit of the Order of San Juan de Jerusalén in 1637…
Sometime during the month of March 1632, Captain Don Francisco de la Mora y Ceballos arrived in Santa Fe from Mexico City, and became the eighth governor of New Mexico. Old Spanish documents recently brought to light and translated, show that in so far as the antagonism between state…
Bernardo López de Mendizábal By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Beginning as early as the 1540s, wars in Europe and the Mediterranean proved financially ruinous for the Spanish monarchy. Castile and the empire it controlled lurched from fiscal crisis to crisis throughout the end of the sixteenth…
Governor Joaquín del Real Alencaster, 1803-1808 By Rick Hendricks Joaquín del Real Alencaster was born to Antonio del Real and María Antonia Alencaster in Cádiz, Spain, around 1761.According to testimony by his brother, Antonio, the family moved from Cádiz, where the brothers were born, to Algeciras where Antonio, at…
12 14 1668 Juan Páez Hurtado was born on December 14, 1668 in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain. He was the son of Domingo Hurtado Vizcaino and Ana Josefa Rubio y Vasquez. In 1716, after the viceroy of Mexico had received complaints concerning the conduct of Governor Martinez, he…
