Alonso Sánchez (Montañes), son of

Brief Biography

Three sons of Alonso Sánchez and Francisca de Hozes are listed in the documentary record: Alonso de la Cámara, Francisco de la Serna and Juan de Hozes. The muster of 1540, at which both his father and himself are listed as unassigned horsemen, does not offer a first name for the expeditionary son. Because his father came to New Spain in 1522 and because the muster does not register the son as an independent person from his father, it is safe to assume that this son was underage at the time of the muster. Therefore, he could be a native of Ciudad Real (Ciudad Real province) as were his parents or he could he a native of Mexico City.

Gender
Male
Country of Origin
Mexico
Place of Birth (City/Town)
?Mexico City
Place of Birth (modern province/state/region)
Federal District of Mexico
Last Known Location
Tepic, Mexico (Muster)
European Social Status
Commoner
Position on Expedition
Horseman
Within Viceroy Mendoza's Sphere
No
Relatives
father:Alonso Sánchez Montañes; mother: Francisca de Hozes
References-Documentary

1540-1550:

1540, Feb.: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [w/his father: seven horses, chainmail vests, native arms]

1560-1570:

?AGN, Instituciones Coloniales, GD110, Real Audiencia, Tierras, vol.3506, exp.1, 1573-95 [Guadalajara, October 12, 1572, Rodrigo de Frías como [segundo] marydo y conjunta persona de casilda de mayoral [first husband was Pedro Cuadrado) contra los bienes y herederos de Jhoan de çaldivar difunto; autos por Rodrigo de Frías, vecino de Guadalajara, and Juan de Zaldívar, difunto [by November 1571], y doña María de Mendoza, su muger, por la posesión de una caballería de tierra [de pan llevar] llamada Toluquilla [en la valle de Tototitlán, en términos de Guadalajara; a witness to a poder from Juan de Zaldívar in 1566 is Alonso Sánchez el mozo, vecino of Guadalajara]

Other info: Aizpuru, Indices y catálog, Diego de Isla, escribano, #1333, “Herencia” [Alonso Sánchez's sons were Alonso de la Cámara, Francisco de la Serna and Juan de Hozes]; [since Alonso was in Nueva España for 25 years, chances are good that their children were native born-probably not Catalina];

?Piferrer, Nobiliario, 4:153, #1758 [many people used the patronyms like Sancho, especially from lineages from Castile, Aragon and Navarre; progenitor via reliable sources was Rodrigo Sánchez; escudo - quartered, 1st of gules and a gold castle with 2 keys high up of silver, which is de Alcázar; the 2nd is silver and a banda of sinople with gold dragons linguados de gules, which is Sánchez; 3rd is García; and the fourth of gold and una faja of blue and en el gefe, encima de la faja un leon de gules rapante, which is Ponce de Leon]