Maldonado Journey to the Kingdom of New Mexico: Volume Viii - Descendants of Juan López De Godoy

By Gilbert Maldonado

Volume VIII is a continuation of the journey of the Maldonado family to the Kingdom of New Mexico. It documents the Maldonado descendants of Juan Lpez de Godoy and Yns Lucero y Gonzlez Jaramillo through their son Maese de Campo (Commanding General) Pedro Lucero de Godoy and his two wives, Petronila de Zamora and Francisca Gmez Robledo, both pioneering New Mexico families. This includes not only their direct line of descent, but also cousins, uncles, aunts, and in-laws. The Maldonado database has more than 5,800 names with many of them represented here. The time period is generally from 1598 through the nineteenth century for most names, though the direct line continues to the present. Pedro Lucero de Godoy is the ancestor of many people living in New Mexico today. In this volume his other descendants can trace their connections to cousins from this extended Maldonado family. Juan Lpez de Godoy and Yns Lucero y Gonzlez Jaramillo are my tenth great-grandparents. Pedro Lucero de Godoy and Petronila de Zamora are my ninth great-grandparents. Petronila de Zamora is also my ninth great-grandaunt because her parents, Bartolom de Montoya and Mara de Zamora, are my double tenth great-grandparents. Don Pedros second wife, doa Francisca Gmez Robledo, whom he married following the death of Petronila de Zamora, is my ninth great-grandmother by virtue of her marriage to Pedro Lucero de Godoy; but, she is also my first cousin ten times removed, the great-granddaughter of my eleventh great-grandparents Pedro Robledo and Catalina Lpez.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Nov 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490739342

Gilbert Maldonado

Gilbert T. Maldonado is the thirteenth generation of his family born in New Mexico. He is first vice president of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico where he has written numerous articles on the genealogies of the first families of New Mexico. He retired after forty-two years of service with the US government. His last assignment was as Title X program manager for the Department of Energy in charge of remediating all radioactive mill-tailing sites in the continental United States. During the Vietnam War, he served as a Vietnam Era captain with the US Air Force. Maldonado holds master’s degrees from two universities. He resides in Albuquerque with his wife, Susie, daughters Lisa Maldonado and Cathy Jones, son-in-law Mark Jones, and grandson Coleton.

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CONTENTS

About the Cover

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Ahnentafel of Gilbert Maldonado

Relationship Chart - Gilbert Maldonado

Pedigree Chart-Gilbert Maldonado

Descendants of Juan López de Godoy

Endnotes

Bibliography

Dedication

For

Our Son Mark

ABOUT THE COVER

The Maldonado Coat of Arms illustrated on the cover is the facade of the Maldonado Castle, also known as the Casa de las Conchas (House of Shells) a historical building in Salamanca, Spain. This photo shows the Maldonado coat of arms displayed over the front door to the castle, which currently houses a public library. Salamanca became the seat of the Maldonado family following the creation of the family name, from around the third generation (circa 1324), if not from the beginning.

The Maldonado castle was built from 1493 to 1517 by Rodrigo Arias de Maldonado, knight of the Order of Santiago de Compostela, and a professor at the University of Salamanca. Its most interesting feature is the facade, mixing late Gothic and Plateresque style, decorated with more than three hundred shells, symbol of the Order of Santiago. Each shell signifies one pilgrimage along the Way of St. James by the Maldonado family. Pilgrims brought sea shells to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (where the apostle James is said to be buried) for absolution of their sins, and to indicate they had traveled a great distance, such as from the sea.

The entrance portal has the coat of arms of the Maldonado family over the door, while in the architrave are dolphins, a Renaissance symbol of love, and vegetables. In the facade are also the coat of arms of the Catholic monarchs and four windows in Gothic style, each one having a different shape. The inner court is characterized, in the lower floor, by arches supported by square pilasters, while in the upper ones they are supported by shorter columns in Carrara marble.

The Maldonado coat of arms also appears on the walls, around the windows, and on the other architectural features inside the castle. It features five fleurs-de-lis supported by angels, lions, and other creatures, and is sometimes circled with laurel. The Spanish description is: De gules, con cinco flores-de-lis de oro, puestas en sotuer (On a field of red, five gold lilies, placed like an X).

Red was chosen to show the charity, daring nature, magnanimity, and fervor of the Maldonados, who were pledged to help the oppressed. Gold symbolizes their sense of justice, mercy, purity, seriousness in duty, constancy in danger, and commitment to help the poor and defend the kingdom. The lilies, which give off a sweet aroma when crushed, were signs of generosity in the face of injury and insult.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A work such as this is rarely the product of one person. While the end result is mine, it owes its existence to the building blocks of many people, among whom are numerous historians and genealogists from New Mexico.

Although absolute perfection is admirable, I thought it best to publish this pioneer genealogy at this time, hoping to disseminate available information and stimulate inquiry about our ancestry, that we may be bound closer together as one great family, whether by the name of Maldonado or otherwise.

The search for this ancestry has largely increased my respect and admiration for this family, and I believe that it compares favorably to the genealogies of other Spanish colonial families of New Mexico whose genealogical records have been carefully preserved in the Spanish Archives of Santa Fe. From the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), the Lord beseeches us to do all we can to perfect and preserve our own. In the language of Job 8:8, For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers.

First and foremost, thanks go to our ancestors, some of whom risked their lives to come to the ends of the earth to escape the Spanish Inquisition in search of freedom and prosperity for their descendants. Their careful preservation of the record made it possible for me to participate in the discovery of such a grand ancestry. Bringing together the records of this family has been a labor of love, and I hope this volume meets with a kind reception among those for whom it has been especially prepared.

Our heartfelt gratitude goes to Fray Angélico Chávez, a cousin many times over, for researching and writing Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Revised Edition, which includes Juan Antonio Montaño de Sotomayor and his family among many of our other ancestors. Juan Antonio’s son, Juan Antonio Montaño Maldonado, was the first in the family to go by the name Maldonado exclusively in the Kingdom of New Mexico. His descendants are found throughout New Mexico, as well as in most of the remaining United States and distant lands.

Special thanks go to Robert Beto Baldonado Isaac, another cousin many times over, who initiated the search for our family and provided critical and voluminous research. His research helped to connect the dots between the Montaño and Maldonado names, proving they were the same family, and thus, opening the door to finding our other ancestors. Beto was the first to untangle the tangled web of our name by discovering that José Montaño was actually José Maldonado, my fourth great-grandfather. José Maldonado and his wife, María Dolores Benavides, connected us to the 1598 founders of the Kingdom of New Mexico, who came under the leadership of don Juan de Oñate. The ancestry of these conquistadors took us to places beyond the sea.

Special thanks go to my niece Laura Annette Galván Lucero for taking charge of the photography and helping her aunt Susie Maldonado take the photographs.

Thanks go to José Antonio Esquibel for making available his website Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families, from which I gained valuable information.

Thanks go to the board of directors of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, past and present, for their contributions to New Mexico genealogy.

I am particularly indebted to my wife, María de Jesús Galván (Susie), who not only provided photographs, valuable suggestions, and review, but whose greatest contribution may have been her willingness to spend many an evening alone while I labored over this project.

Gilbert T. Maldonado

Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 30, 2012

PREFACE

Volume eight is a continuation of the 1598 journey of the Maldonado family to the Kingdom of New Mexico. It records this family’s Maldonado descendants of Juan López de Godoy and Ynés Lucero y Gonzáles Jaramillo through their son Commanding General Pedro Lucero de Godoy and his two wives Petronila de Zamora and Francisca Gómez Robledo, both pioneering New Mexico families. Petronila died before 1641, after which don Pedro married Francisca, who likely died during the Pueblo uprising of 1680.

Juan López de Godoy is my tenth great-grandfather and his son, Pedro Lucero de Godoy, is my ninth great-grandfather. Don Pedro and his wives are two of the most prominent couples of the early Spanish colonial period. According to Fray Angélico Chávez, "Pedro Lucero de Godoy was a native of Mexico City. By 1663, when he gave his age as sixty-three he had attained the rank of Maese de Campo (Commanding General). In this same year he was Lieutenant Governor of the Kingdom as well as Syndic of the Franciscans."

According to José Antonio Esquibel, don Pedro referred to his family as Esta Gran Familia (This Large Family). Esquibel says, He was a prolific letter writer who corresponded regularly with his extended family in Mexico City, New Spain. These letters sometimes involved defending two in-laws from the Spanish Inquisition: Francisco Gómez Robledo and Diego Pérez Romero. In the letters don Pedro shows human emotions that we can relate to today. He expresses infinite joy at the marriage of his nephew Felís de Godoy, and sorrow at the death of Juan López de Godoy, another nephew. At the time, his family in New Mexico consisted of eighty-five members including forty soldiers of his Majesty, among who were ten of his grown sons.

Chávez states: His first wife was Petronila de Zamora, who married him when she was but eleven years old. To all appearances, she was the Petronila listed as the youngest child of Bartolomé Montoya and María de Zamora when they came to New Mexico in 1600. They had a daughter Catalina, who married Diego Romero, son of Gaspar Pérez, and also a son, Juan, also prominent in public affairs. Another son, Pedro, Alcalde of Santa Fe at this time (1663), may have been a child by Petronila. Petronila de Zamora is my ninth great-grandmother through her marriage to Pedro Lucero de Godoy, but she is also my ninth great-grandaunt because her brother Alférez Diego de Montoya is my ninth great-grandfather.

Chávez goes on to say, Pedro’s second wife, Francisca Gómez Robledo, was active in affairs connected with the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In 1663 they had five daughters of marriageable age and the young Pedro, just mentioned. Another son, Francisco, figured in later historical events. One of the daughters, María, who was perhaps the youngest, became the wife of Lázaro de Misquia. Two other women, Ynéz, wife of Juan de la Escallada, and Luisa, married to Pedro Montoya de Esparza, were most likely his daughters. Lucero had a step-son, Antonio de Salas. From a statement by Diego Lucero de Godoy, Francisca appears to be among the colonists who were massacred in 1680. Pedro died well before the Rebellion of 1680.

The marriages of their children and grandchildren connected don Pedro, doña Petronila, and doña Francisca to many of the first families of New Mexico beginning with the families of Pedro Robledo and Francisco Gómez. In addition to the Robledo and Gómez families, other prominent members of this extended family alliance are the families of don Pedro Durán y Chaves and Cristóbal Baca. These combined families formed one of the most powerful alliances in Spanish colonial New Mexico receiving many land grants and encomiendas as well as occupying the highest offices in the government. Numerous people from New Mexico descend from Pedro Lucero de Godoy and his two wives.

This volume incorporates the extended Maldonado family that descends from these pioneering couples including cousins, uncles, aunts, and in-laws. On the Maldonado family tree they number more than fifty-eight hundred, many of which are contained in this genealogy. Names in this volume extend only through the nineteenth century, more or less, to keep the genealogy from becoming too large, though the main line continues to the present. In this volume other descendants of don Pedro, doña Petronila, and doña Francisca can trace their connections to cousins from this extended Maldonado family.

The families of Francisco Gómez and Pedro Robledo are featured prominently in this genealogy, though other significant old New Mexico families include much of the alphabet of Spanish colonial names.

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Franciscan priest with the 1598 expedition of don Juan de Oñate. Photo by Susie Maldonado.

INTRODUCTION

This volume, as well as volumes nine, ten and eleven, contains the latest information on the Maldonado family tree. Errors found in currently published volumes one through seven were corrected in these four new books. Names of family members not previously known to the author were entered into the genealogies and numerous new source citations were added to the family tree.

Two important corrections were made to volume one. On the bottom of page 38, Antonio de Carvajal and María de Olid are my twelfth great-grandparents, not my cousins-in-law. On the bottom of page 319, Antonio Pérez and Catalina Aponte should only be in the fifteenth generation, not in both the fifteenth and sixteenth generations.

The new and updated information significantly enhanced the family tree by making it more correct and complete, in addition to extending the branches where the newly-found names were added. Anyone following the Maldonado family tree should refer to volumes eight through eleven as the most current genealogical information.

While this genealogy is based on Gilbert Maldonado as the root person, all members of the family can trace their connections to these ancestors from the point where their names appear in the genealogy. The current generation of cousins can literally substitute their names for mine when tracing their lineage under the Maldonado name.

RootsMagic, the computer program chosen for compiling this genealogy, is a proactive, read-write program that reads an entry’s data fields and writes a narrative report from the information. It takes the date entered into the various blocks of information for each person, such as date of birth, date of marriage, place born, place married, etc., and strings them into sentences. While this is a useful feature, it often makes the computer-generated writing seem stilted and repetitive. As this is the way the computer program is written, I have no control over it. The sentences sometimes don’t make a great deal of sense, but there is little I can do about it. It also makes the writing difficult to change, so when I could not easily revise the computer-generated language, I generally left it alone.

Finding a person’s place of birth was the greatest challenge of all, because the computer program defaults to this field before allowing data to be entered into the family tree. Without filling in the place of birth, the program does not allow names, color codes, or connections to be assigned and identification numbers to be entered into the narrative reports. It leave these data fields blank. Consequently, whenever I could not find an ancestor’s place of birth, I entered a birthplace according to the following general rules: 1.) 1519 to 1598: New Spain, 2.) 1598 to 1680: New Mexico, 3.) 1680 to 1692: Guadalupe del Paso, and 4.) 1693 to present: New Mexico.

The above rules for designating birthplaces are intrinsically accurate, because the locations referenced were the only populated and protected places where a person could originate in those days. The periods that gave me the most difficulty were the years after the Pueblo massacre of 1680, and the years after the reconquest of New Mexico in 1692-1693. During these periods I often found it difficult to tell whether someone was born in El Paso or New Mexico, so I used my best judgment.

To make it easier for the reader, as well as for myself, I chose the current names of towns, counties, states, and countries instead of trying to figure out their ancient names by historical period. For example, I used Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, in spite of the fact that this name did not exist in the seventeenth century and earlier. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico (SANM), Volumes I and II, by Ralph Emerson Twitchell have a great deal of information about our family that I was unable to include in this genealogy. Most of the entries deal with real estate transactions that are fairly benign but quite interesting. To find them, look up the individual’s name in the SANM index and go to the page indicated.

The titles Don and Doña are always capitalized in the records, but I chose not to capitalize them so that they would not be confused with the American names of Don and Donna.

The names, places, and footnotes in the pedigree chart are not included in the indexes and endnotes of this volume. You will find this information in the other sections.

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El Santuario de Chimayó near Santa Fe.

Photo by Laura Annette Galván Lucero.

AHNENTAFEL OF GILBERT MALDONADO