Sancha de Ayala--Ancestry Correction
Nathaniel Lane Taylor
The parentage of Sancha de Ayala's father, Diego Gomez de Toledo,
traditionally assumed to be son of Gomez Perez de Toledo and (?Ines Garcia
de Toledo), was called into question and reidentified by Todd A. Farmerie
in s.g.m. posts in September 1995.
The reidentification was based on the fact that Sancha's uncle Pedro Lopez
de Ayala apparently identified his own brother-in-law Diego Gomez de
Toledo as son of Pedro Suarez de Toledo. Pedro Suarez de Toledo, by all
accounts, was married to Maria Ramirez de Guzman.
Todd Farmerie and I spent considerable effort researching aspects of the
ancestry of Pedro Suarez de Toledo and his wife Maria Ramirez de Guzman,
including identifying potential royal descents. Many of the lines
discussed in Sept.-Dec. 1995 posts were based on this reidentification.
I was just about to circulate a detailed, 12-page summary of much of this
research, presenting five provisional royal descents identified by Todd,
of which three proceeded through Maria Ramirez de Guzman, Sancha's
putative grandmother.
Unfortunately, on Friday I discovered DEFINITIVE PROOF that Diego Gomez de
Toledo, Sancha's father, was in fact son of Gomez Perez de Toledo, as had
been traditionally assumed, and not son of Pedro Suarez de Toledo and his
wife Maria Ramirez de Guzman. This invalidates many of the lines posted
in September-December on s.g.m. and considerable hours spent recently by
Todd and myself preparing this material for publication.
THE EVIDENCE
Ricardo Izquierdo Benito, ed., _Privilegios Reales otorgados a Toledo
durante la Edad Media (1101-1494)_ (Toledo: Instituto Provincial de
Investigaciones y Estudios Toledanos; Diputacion Provincial de Toledo,
1990), contains a document (no. 107, pp. 207-211), dated 27 March 1375 at
Alcala de Henares, in which Enrique II confirms an exchange of property
between Diego Gomez de Toledo and his aunt Constanza, on one part, and a
group of other individuals, on the other. The exchange deals with a
renegotiation or execution of a testamentary settlement of Fernan Gomez de
Toledo. In this document, twice, Diego Gomez de Toledo clearly calls
himself son of Gomez Perez:
"et yo Diego Gomez alcallde mayor de Toledo fijo de don Gomes Peres ..."
This resolves the debate over the paternity of Diego Gomez.
Unfortunately, it deprives Sancha de Ayala of ancestry in the branch of
the well-connected Guzman family, through which three royal descents had
been provisionally developed and were about to appear in s.g.m. and
(hopefully) be published.
THE CONSEQUENCES
All is not lost: a longer text, which I will hopefully upload later in the
week, will provide two or possibly three other provisional royal descents
for Sancha (all first pointed out by Todd Farmerie), via her mother Ines
de Ayala, wife of Diego Gomez de Toledo.
Nat Taylor
Todd A. Farmerie
In a previous article, nta...@fas.harvard.edu (Nathaniel Lane Taylor) says:
>Unfortunately, on Friday I discovered DEFINITIVE PROOF that Diego Gomez de
>Toledo, Sancha's father, was in fact son of Gomez Perez de Toledo, as had
>been traditionally assumed, and not son of Pedro Suarez de Toledo and his
>wife Maria Ramirez de Guzman. This invalidates many of the lines posted
>in September-December on s.g.m. and considerable hours spent recently by
>Todd and myself preparing this material for publication.
>
In case the implications of this correction are not evidenct, I will make
it so.
Take all of the material that has been posted on the Sancha thread, and
THROW IT OUT! except for the posts dealing with the following families:
Osorio
Garcia de Toledo (except that the descent passes through the marriage of a
daughter of Diego Garcia to Gomez Perez de Toledo.
Jimena Munoz, mistress of Alfonso VI
Barroso
Sotomayor
Gomez de Toledo (except replace Pedro Suarez with Gomez Perez)
The rest, Guzman, Lara, Salvadorez, Fruelaz, Villamayor, etc. is no longer
relevant.
I am in the process of reevaluating the situation in light of this change,
and will post a couple of new lines that I have recently found, but there
is no disquising the scope of this pedigree decapitation.
Todd