Grand-daughter to King Ferdinand II, half neice to Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, Princess Isabela, Princess Juana, Don Juan of Castile and Aragon, and Maria of Aragon.
The wedding gift from her mother was a large hacienda that included her own mother’s mansion. This hacienda, south of Mexico City, was given to the newly-weds to make life pleasant for her daughter and her new son-in-law.
Source:Coronado, Knight of Pueblos and Plains by Herbert Eugene Bolton.
Marriage source from the book, Mil Familias III by Rodolfo Gonzalez de la Garza. Page 26.
Father: Alonso de Estrada (1470-1530)
- Natural born son of Ferdinand II, King of Aragon and Dona Luisa de Estrada, daughter to the Spanish ambassador to England.
- Half brother to Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, Isabella, Queen of
Portugal, Princess Juana, Don Juan of Castile and Aragon, and Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, and uncle to Philip II of Spain. - 1523 – Upon arriving in Mexico, he held the title of, Royal Treasurer of New Spain.
- From 1527 to 1531, he was the Lieutenant Governor of New Spain.
- He died at his estate near Vera Cruz, and is buried at Mexico City.
- From the book, With All Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine. Page 69-70.
- Mil Familias III by Rodolfo Gonzalez de la Garza. Page 26.
- Mexico under Spain, Society and the Origins of Nationality, by Peggy K. Liss.
- Nuno de Guzman and the Province of Panuco in New Spain 1518-1533, by Donald E. Chipman.
Mother: Marina Gutierrez Flores de la Caballería (-1530)
Spouse: Francisco Vazquez de Coronado 1537 Son of Juan Vasquez de Coronado and Mother Isabel de Lujan
Son of Juan Vasquez de Coronado and Mother Isabel de Lujan
The “pruebas de limpieza” documents for don Jorge de Alvarado y Villafaña provide somewhat fragmentary genealogical information about the Gutiérrez de la Caballería family. However, when this material is combined with additional information extracted from records of the Spanish Inquisition of Ciudad Real (1483-1485), we can reconstruct a lineage from a Jewish-converso family of the late 1300s, a family known to have practiced Jewish customs and honored Jewish ceremonies after conversion to Catholicism, to the numerous members of one of the most influential and politically powerful extended families of sixteenth century Nueva España, including, doña Beatriz de Estrada, wife of don Francisco Vásquez de Coronado.
Doña Beatriz de Estrada and Her Family
Doña Beatriz de Estrada was a daughter of don Alonso de Estrada and doña Marina Flores Gutiérrez de la Caballería. Having served the royal crown faithfully in Flanders (Netherlands) and Sicily, don Alonso de Estrada (b.ca. 1470, Ciudad Real, Castilla la Nueva) found himself in the favor of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Rey don Fernando II, El Católico, of Aragón and Reina doña Isabel, La Católica, of Castilla (r.1479-1504). While in service as Corregidor of the city of Cáceres, Estrada was given royal appointment in 1523 as Tesorero (Treasurer) de Nueva España. Don Alonso proceeded to Nueva España arriving in Veracruz the same year as his appointment, having left his wife and children in Spain. This ambitious and grandiose man quickly entered into the political intrigue of Nueva España and was eventually successful in supplanting the great conquistador of Tenochtitlán (Mexico City), don Hernán Cortés, as Governor of Nueva España (1526-1528). In early 1528, don Alosno’s wife and their five youngest children, all daughters, arrived in Nueva España having successfully completed the three month journey from Spain in the company of fray Julián Gárces, first bishop of Tlaxcala.
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