The Romero Family of Seventeenth Century New Mexico (Part I), by Jose Antonio Esquibel
The Family of Matías Romero and Doña Isabel de Pedraza in 17th-century New Mexico
Although the Pueblo Indian insurgence of August 1680 claimed the lives of approximately nine to 11 members of this item branch of the Romero family, archival records confirm that the greater majority of individuals with the surname of Romero returning to New Mexico in Dec 1693 were grandchildren of Matías Romero and doña Isabel de Pedraza. In dissimilarity, there is no documentation to confirm that any male person descendants of the brothers of Matías Romero —Bartolomé Romero and Agustín Romero— returned to New Mexico in 1693 or soon subsequently.
The names of twelve grandchildren of Matías Romero and doña Isabel de Pedraza are yet unknown. As such, it is very likely that several of the Romero individuals accounted for in the records of late seventeenth-century New Mexico were members of the Romero de Pedraza branch of the Romero family. The exceptions are the few Romero people returning to New Mexico who were members of the family of Alonso Romero, a mestizo who lived and worked in the household family of Felipe Romero (son of Matías Romero).
Matías Romero and his wife, doña Isabel de Pedraza, were the parents of iv sons and two daughters, as identified by Diego Pérez Romero in his argument well-nigh his family background in 1663. Pérez Romero named his cousins in the following guild: Pedro Romero, Francisco Romero, Bartolomé Romero, Felipe Romero, Luisa Romero and Catalina López Robledo (AGN, Inquisición, t. 372, f. 71v; and José Antonio Esquibel, "The Romero Family unit of Seventeenth Century New Mexico," Function 1, Herencia, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Jan 2003, 8-9, and 10).
In March 1631, Fray Esteban de Perea, Comisario del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición, sought testimony from Matías Romero in a example against his brother-in-police force, Gaspar Pérez, but Romero only stated he knew nothing about the matter in question (AGN, Inquisición, t. 372, exp. xvi, f. 4, March 26, 1631, Santa Iron). He gave his age as xx-seven, indicating he was born circa 1604, and declared he was a vecino of Santa Fe. Information technology is credible he was literate since he was able to sign his name. By 1631 Romero already held prominent military and social positions, serving as alguacil mayor (chief constable or loftier sheriff) of Santa Fe and alférez real, regal standard bearer (AGN, Inquisición, t. 372, exp. 16, ff. iv-4v).
In the same case, Fray Esteban interviewed doña Isabel de Pedraza in Santa Fe on June 22, 1631. She was identified as existence age twenty-five (born circa 1606) and the wife of Alférez Matías Romero. The remarks of doña Isabel came from the gossip she heard about Juana de la Cruz, who was accused of killing ii men with potions and witchcraft and investigated by the Inquisition around this same fourth dimension period.
From the testimony of doña Isabel de Pedraza, information technology is learned she was built-in circa 1606 and that she was a first cousin of doña María de Archuleta (born circa 1611), the wife of Juan Márquez and a daughter of Asencio de Archuleta and Ana Pérez de Bustillos (AGN, Inquisición, t. 372, exp. sixteen, ff. 11r and 18v, Testimony of doña María de Archuleta, March 25, 1631). In all likelihood, Pedraza and Archuleta were related through their mothers, who were apparently 2 of the vii daughters of Alférez Juan Pérez de Bustillos (native of Mexico City, b.ca. 1557) and María de la Cruz.
The Pérez de Bustillo family settled New United mexican states in 1598 (Chávez, ONMF, 87). Since the names of only four of the 7 Pérez de Bustillo daughters are known from historical records, it is likely that 1 of the unknown daughters was married with a Pedraza human being, presumably Juan de Pedraza who came every bit a soldier to New Mexico in the army of don Juan de Oñate in 1598 (Chávez, ONMF, 89). Curiously, Juan de Pedraza, born circa 1568, was listed immediately earlier Bartlomé Romero in the January 1598 muster scroll of soldiers of Oñate'due south expedition recorded at Todos Santos (George P. Hammond, ed., and Agapito Rey, trans., Don Juan de Oñate and the Founding of New Mexico 1595-1628, University of Printing, Albuquerque, 1953, 293). The other possibility, which is less likely, is that a Pedraza man was married with a sis of Asencio de Archuleta, a native of Eibar, Spain (Chávez, ONMF, 6).
As a member of the Santa Fe cabildo (town council) in 1639, Matías Romero and his compadre don Diego de Guadalajara, also a member of the cablido, took exception to fray Juan de Góngora's declaration that he held "absolute power to introduce the Santa Cruzada without being presented to the cabildo or being received or accepted by information technology" (Adolph F.A. Bandelier and Fanny R. Bandelier, Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, and Approaches Thereto, to 1773, edited by Charles Wilson Hackett, Carnegie Found of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1923, Vol. iii, 50-51). The cabildo contended they held authority to have or reject the bulls of the Santa Cruzada, from which the alms of penitent individuals were used in defense of the New Mexico confronting hostile Indians (Bandelier and Bandelier, Historical Documents, Vol. 3, 57).
The political battle that ensued included the use of interdicts and excommunications on the part of Góngora against civil officials. In response, the Santa Fe cabildo sent a representative directly to Mexico Metropolis to seek recourse in their favor. This emissary was Gaspar Pérez, Romero's brother-in-constabulary, who served as procurador full general of the kingdom of New Mexico and was sent to Mexico Metropolis with the written complaints of the cabildo. In this instance, Matías Romero and his boyfriend cabildo members gained a political victory by diminishing what they viewed equally the excessive and overreaching ecclesiastical authority of Fray Juan de Góngora.
Matías Romero spent many hours and days in the Casas de Cabildo. Before his death in 1646 he served as a regidor (town councilman) and alcalde ordinaro of the Villa de Santa Atomic number 26 (AGN, Inquisición, t. 372, f. 71v). The date of decease of doña Isabel de Pedraza is not known. Together, Matías Romero and doña Isabel de Pedraza are among some of the virtually common ancestors of individuals with deep Hispano family roots in New Mexico.
Read more about the Romero family of seventeenth-century New Mexico in José Antonio Esquibel. "The Romero Family unit of Seventeenth-Century New Mexico," Role 1 in Herencia, Vol. xi, Issue 1, January 2003 and Part ii, in Herencia, Vol. eleven, Issue 3, July 2003.
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