Isabel Mendoza

I do not know if this Isabel Mendoza that we have been looking for all these years but she does have many, if not all, of the puzzle pieces that we have been using as clues.

While looking for more information on Sancha Sanchez de Velasco's father, Sancho Velasco el comendador, I found a young lady related to the Velasco and Mendoza named Isabel Mendoza, daughter of Antonio Velasco Manrique, Sr. De Salinas del Rio Pisuerga and Maria Manuel Sarmiento.

Her father descends from Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd Sr. De Hita y Buitrago and Leonor Lasso de la Vega. Many , many years ago, Mr. Navarro, a genealogist that claimed to have seen a Mendoza family tree in the library in Salt Lake City said that she descended from this Diego Hurtado de Mendoza de Mendoza and Leonor Lasso de la Vega but I don't know if he provided every generation until Isabel Mendoza married to Toribio Hernandez Arellano. If he did provide the steps, I don't believe it was this line as this seems as new information to me, though I do recall some genealogists stating that they thought that she was related somehow to the viceroy. They didn't give how she was related. It has been so long that I saw Mr. Navarro's claims that I don't recall his steps. What I do remember was that the Isabel Mendoza that he claimed was the wife of Toribio Hernandez Arellano would have been born to soon so there had to be a mistake in his line.

This Isabel Mendoza that is the daughter of Antonio Velasco Manrique, Sr. De Salinas del Rio Pisuerga and Maria Manuel Sarmiento does fit the time frame and she was the half - sister of Luis de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcon Ii Viceroy (Virrey) de la Nueva Espana. (born from her father's second marriage and much younger than her half brother)

Antonio Velasco Manrique, was the son of Pedro de Velasco y Carillo de Mendoza and this is where one line of the Mendoza comes from.

Another Mendoza ancestry comes from Maria Manuela Sarmiento. Antonio Sarmiento, Alcalde mayor de Burgos, and Maria Mendoza are the parents of Maria Manuela Sarmiento. This explains why Isabel Mendoza used Mendoza as a surname instead of Velasco as her maternal grandmother was Mendoza.

Isabel's maternal grandmother, Maria Mendoza, is the daughter of Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, I count of Monteagude and Isabel Zuniga y Avellaneda.

Pedro is the son of Pedro de Mendoza, Señor de Almazan, and Maria de Luna. Mr. Navarro had stated that Isabel descended from a Mendoza Luna line. Through the Mendoza and Luna lines, This sabel Mendoza is a distant cousin to Toribio Hernandez de Arellano.

Isabel de Zuniga is the daughter of Diego Lopez de Zuñiga, I Conde de Miranda, y Guzman and Aldonza Avellaneda D' Aza,

Diego Lopez de Zuñiga y Guzman is the son of Pedro Lopez de Zuñiga y Garcia de Leyva, I Conde de Ledesma. I already posted Pedro Lopez de Zuñiga y Garcia de Leyva's descendancy from Edward III, King of England to Nueva Galicia in a previous post. Pedro Lopez de Zuñiga, 1st Conde de Ledesma is a common ancestor to different lines that I have been working on from Nueva Galicia. He is not the first common ancestor, nor the one with the most descent, that I have found for many of my ancestors from Nueva Galicia. I am looking for all the common ancestors and plan on showing all the connections in my book.

On a side note: Antonio Sarmiento, alcalde de Burgos, has an interesting ancestry himself. He is a descendant of James the Conqueror, King of Aragon through one of his ancestral lines, and through another ancestral line is a descendant of a mulata named Beatriz de Zuñiga. Maria Manuela descends from Saint Fernando III.

R.A. Ricci