The Illustrious House of Mendez de
Sotomayor
© By John D. Inclan
As an honorary member of the City of
Monterrey’s Sociedad Genealogogica y Historia Familiar de Mexico, I receive,
via e-mail, the Society current events or updates on families’ genealogical
findings.
Last month, one of the e-mail,
featured information on Mexico’s
Conquistador, Don Gonzalo Mendez de Sotomayor, a survivor of the De Soto Expedition.
This
was my first experience concerning this family and it stimulated my curiosity. So,
I googled “Mendez de Sotomayor”
The search
yielded several responses, of which one included the history of the House of
Mendez de Sotomayor. What caught my eye was that it included the Duchy of Alba
de Torre. This article contained the name of the Duchess of Alba, via her
descent to Don Fernan Perez de Ayala, married to Dona Elvira Alvarez Cevallos.
Several years
ago, I compiled the Genealogical tree for
The
Descendents of Lord Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza
And Lady
Aldonza Lopez de Ayala.
This work can be found on the Somos Primos
Magazine web site.
UPDATE – They are Allied
by Marriage to the Mendez de Sotomayor Family.
This Connection
inspired me to compiled my own connection to
THE HOUSE OF MENDEZ DE SOTOMAYOR
Mendo
Paez-de-Sorred, Lord of Sotomayor (Ricohombre) m.
Inez Perez-de-Ambia (My 24th Great
Grandparents)
|
Pedro
Mendez-de-Sotomayor, Bishop of Orense
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Garci
Mendez-de-Sotomayor m. Inez Fernandez-de-Saavedra
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Mencia
Garcia-de-Sotomayor m. Fernan Perez-Barroso
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Sancha
Fernandez-Barroso-y-Sotomayor m.
Pedro
Lopez-de-Haro, 11th Lord of Ayala
|
Fernan
Perez-de-Ayala, 13th Lord of Ayala m.
Elvira Alvarez-de-Ceballos,
Lady of Escalante
|
Aldonza de
Ayala-y-Ceballos, Lady Hita y Buitrag m.
Pedro
Gonzalez-de-Mendoza, 9th Lord of Mendoza
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Juana
Hurtado-de-Mendoza-y-Ayala m. Alfonso Enriquez-de-Castilla, Lord of Medina de
Rio Seco. Almirante de Castilla.
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Inez
Enriquez-de-Mendoza m. Juan
Hurtado-de-Mendoza, 4th Lord of Almazan
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Pedro de
Mendoza, 5th Lord of Almazan m. Maria de Luna
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Pedro Gonzalez-de-Mendoza, Count Monteagudom.
Isabel Zuniga-y-Avellanda
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Aldonza Avellaneda-y-Zuniga m. Ruy
Diaz-de-Mendoza-y-Norona, Lord of Moron
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Ruy Diaz-de-Mendoza-y-Guzman, 3rd Lord of Moron
m. Brites de Norona
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Ruy Diaz-de-Mendoza-y-Norona, Lord of Moron m.
Aldonza Avellaneda-y-Zuniga
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Juan Hurtado-de-Mendoza, Lord of Moron m. Luisa
Velazquez-Cuellar-y-Velasco
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Ruy Diaz-de-Mendoza, Lord of Moron m. Catalina
Arellano-del-Rio, Lady de Soto
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Ruy Diaz-de-Mendoza-y-Arellano-del-Rio m.
Catalina Salazar-y-de-la-Cadena
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Magdalena de Mendoza-Salazar m. Lt. Capt.
General Vicente de Saldivar-y-Onate
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Magdelena Saldivar-Onate-Mendoza m. Juan
Guerra-de-Reza
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Captain Vicente de Saldivar-y-Reza m. Maria
(Farias) de Sosa
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Maria (Saldivar)
de Sosa m. Juan de-la-Garza-Montemayor
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Maria-Josefa de-la-Garza-Sosa m. Tomas
Sanchez-de-la-Barrera
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Juan-Bautista Sanchez-de-la-Garza m. Juana-Maria
Diaz-Trevino
My
6th Great Grandparents
My 1,000 page Genealogical report includes the
following descendants.
Don Payo Gomez Sorres de Sotomayor, 5th
Almirante de Castilla, Don Fernan Perez de Ayala, 13th Lord de
Ayala, Dona Aldonza de Ayala y Ceballos,
Lady de Hita y Buitrag, Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 10th Lord of
Mendoza, Don Gomez Garcia de Sotomayor, 3rd Lord of Castillo de Carpio, Dona
Juana de Mendoza y Ayala, Ricahembra,
(Her bio is on the Net), Don Alfonso Enriquez de Castilla, Lord of Medina de
Rioseco, Almirante de Castilla, Don Juan de Acuna, 2nd Duke of
Valencia, Don Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillan, Don
Fadrique Enriquez de Mendoza, Almirante
de Castilla, 1st Count of Melgar y Rueda, Don Garcia Alvarez de
Toledo, 1st Duke of Alba de Tormees, (House of the Duke and Duchess
of Alba) Don Rodrigo Ponce de Leon, 3rd Count of Arcos, Ferdinand II, (The Catholic) King of Aragon,
Dona Juana de Aragon, Queen of Naples, Don Juan Arias de Saavedra, 1st
Count of Castellar, Don Juan Alonso Pimental, 5th Duke of Benavente,
Don Ladron Velez-de Guevera, 3rd Count of Onate, Don Diego Hurtado
de Mendoza, 3rd Duke of Infantado, Don Rodrigo Ponce de Leon, 1st
Duke of Arcos, Dona Leonor de Ircio y Mendoza,
Charles von Hapsburg, Holy Roman Emperor,
Joao III, King of Portugal & Algarves, George de Alencastre
(Lancaster) 1st Duke of Torresnova, Don Lope de Sosa y Mesa,
Governor of the Canary Islands, Don Juan Cuevara y Barrios, Founder of Nueva
Galicia, Mexico, Don Nuno Colon y Portugal, (a descendant of Christopher
Columbus) 4th Duke of
Veragua, Don Juan Alfonso Enriquez de
Cabrera, Viceroy of Sicily & Naples, Sergeant Major Vicente de Saldivar
Onate y Mendoza, Don Esteban de Sosa
Guevara, Don Juan Santiago Altamirano de
Velasco y Legaspi, 2nd Count of Santiago Calimaya, Dona Juana de
Aragon, 7th Marquessa del Valle de Oaxaca, James II, King of
England, Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond & Duke of Lennox (ancestor of
Diana, Princess of Wales), Francisco D’Este, Duke of Modena, Don Teobaldo de
Gorraez Beaumonty Navarro, 10th Mariscal de Castilla, Captain
General Diego Baltazar de Tremino de Banuelos, Don Juan Ponce de Leon,
Adelantado de Florida, Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza y Arellano de Rio, Don Francisco de Zuniga Sotomayor, 4th
Duke of Bejar, and Alferez Agustin de Saldivar Sosa
© July 22, 2016