Alonso de Valenzuela

 

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Violante de Terrazas

Alonso de Valenzuela

  • Marriage: Violante de Terrazas by Sep 1586 in Durango, Nueva España 1511

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. 1511
Alonso de Valenzuela was the stepfather of the Gallegos children and the second husband of Violante de Terrazas, the mother of the Gallegos children. Alonso served as regidor and escribano of the Villa de Durango. He held the royal appointment of 1580 as escribano de gobernación, official scribe of the government of the kingdom of Nuev Vizcaya [1]. Valenzuela received a grant of land from Governor Francisco de Ibarra in 1584 consisting of two cabellerías de tierra and two estancias for raising cattle in the jurisdiction of the Villa de Durango [2]. He also served in both royal and local civic positions and was a regidor on the town council of the Villa de Durango in 1595. [3]

"The Genealogy of Luis Gallegos de Terrazas and Pascuala de Rueda," Part 1, Herencia, Vol. 21 #1, p. 43

Footnotes:
1. Atanasio G. Saravia, Apuntes para la Historia de Nueva Vicaya, Mexico, D.F., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992, p. 239; Libro del Cabild de la Villa de Santiago de Saltillo, 1578-1655, México: Centro de Investigaciones Y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, 2002, p. 82.
2. José Luis Pinzo Díaz, Los habitante del valle de Guadiana, 1563-1630: Apropiación agrícola y ganadera, México: Instituto de Investigacions Historicas de la IJED. 2009, p. 97
3. "El testimonio de los diezmos que remite el virrey Velasco había sido requerido por el alcalde ordinario de Durango, Pedro de Arriola, y los reidores, Diego de Morga y Alonso de Valenzuela, del hacedor de diesmos del aquel distrito por decreto del cabildo, de 27 de mayo 1595," in Guillermo Porras Muñoz, Iglesia y estado de Nueva Vizcaya, 1562-1821, México: Universidad Nacional Auitóma de México, 1980, p. 35.


Alonso married Violante de Terrazas, daughter of Diego de la Mancha and María Hernández, by Sep 1586 in Durango, Nueva España.1511


bullet  Marriage Notes:


The Genealogy of Luis Gallegos de Terrazas and Pascuala de Rueda Part 1, p. 49 1511

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