Juana de la Cruz

  Noted events in her life were:

• Children. ²⁵²
Blas Griego b: in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Maria De La Cruz Griego b: Abt 1630 in La Villa de la Santa Fe, Reyno de Nuevo Mejico
Maria Graciana Griego b: 1634 in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nicolas Griego b: Abt 1640 in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Juana Griego

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Juan Griego II was already married to Juana de la Cruz in 1626; she was the daughter of Juan de la Cruz, "el Catalán," and Beatriz de los Angeles. In 1661 he declared that he was born in Santa Fé and was a Capitán fifty-six years old at the time. In this same year he was referred to as being of the same age and having recently returned from a prolonged stay outside New Mexico. Although dead before 1680, he was still remembered after the Reconquest in connection with his old homestead at La Cañada.

Their known children, all Griegos, were Nicolás, Blas, María de la Cruz Alemán, wife of Diego López del Castillo, Graciana, married to Francisco Xavier, and Juana, nicknamed "La Clériga."

~Origins of New Mexico Families, p. 40

Juana married Juan Griego Capitan, son of Juan Griego and Pascuala Bernal, before 1626 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁵² (Juan Griego Capitan was born in 1605 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵² and died before 1680 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)