Lineage of Esparza de Navarro y Cortés de Moctezuma
G1 — Emperor Moctezuma II (c. 1480–1520) — Aztec Emperor of Tenochtitlan.
Married Queen Tlapalizquixochtzin of Ecatepec.
└── G2 — Princess Tecuichpotzin (Doña Isabel Moctezuma) (1500–1551)
Married (in Indigenous custom, not recognized by the Church) Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), Conquistador.
└── G3 — Doña Leonor Cortés y Moctezuma (b. c. 1528)
Married Cristóbal de Valderrama, Conquistador of Tarímbaro and Ecatepec (d. 1537).
└── G4 — Doña Leonor Valderrama Cortés de Moctezuma
Married Diego Arias de Sotelo, nobleman of Zamora; chamberlain to Viceroy Luis de Velasco; Alcalde Ordinario of Mexico City (1561).
└── G5 — Doña Petronila Valderrama Moctezuma
Married Martín de Gabay “El Navarro” (Martín Navarro), Basque-Navarrese settler and soldier in mid-1500s New Spain.
└── G6 — Doña Ana Francisca Gabay Navarro y Moctezuma
Married Lope Ruiz de Esparza (b. 1569, Pamplona – d. 14 Aug 1651, Aguascalientes), Basque lord & nobleman who arrived in New Spain ~1593.
└── G7 — Cristóbal Ruiz de Esparza y Gabay (1616–1672)
Married Isabel de Alcaraz Pérez (c. 1625–1669) m: 18 Aug 1646 (Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco).
└── G8 — Tomasa Ruiz de Esparza y Alcaraz (b. c. 1654)
Married Bartolomé de León García († 25 Jul 1671) m: 14 Nov 1666 (Aguascalientes).
└── G9 — Domingo García Esparza (b. 11 Jan 1666/67)
Married (2nd) Gertrudes de los Santos Aríspe (b. 24 Jul 1712, Saltillo; daughter of Santiago Aríspe & Juana Coy) m: 28 Apr 1726 (Saltillo, Coahuila). (Baptisms for 5 children in Saltillo, LDS Batch# C602472, Source# 0605066.)
└── G10 — Manuel Elijio Aríspe Esparza (b. 13 Apr 1730, Saltillo – d. Lampazos)
Married María Rita Guajardo Quintanilla (b. 12 May 1750, Monterrey – d. Lampazos) m: 27 Apr 1775 (Lampazos de Naranjo, N.L.).
— “Padre Pedro Esparza,” of San Juan Bautista (Lampazos), is noted in family tradition as officiant for the marriage and baptisms.
└── G11 — Pedro José Guajardo Esparza (b. 04 Mar 1792, Lampazos – d. 1879, La Encantada Ranch, Cameron County, TX)
Married Felicidad Galán Villarreal (1794–1858) m: 06 Feb 1809.
└── G12 — Carlos Villarreal Esparza (1828–1885)
Married Francisca Benavides García (1834–1914) m: 30 Jan 1850.
└── G13 — Antonio García Esparza (1865–1935)
Married María Hilaria Cavazos Reyes (1870–1945) m: 24 Apr 1887.
└── G14 — Samuel Reyes Esparza (1911–1980)
Married Ignacia Cortez Rodríguez (1916–1996)
└── G15 — The Esparza Sisters
Affiliated Kinships:
• Viceroy Luis de Velasco — court context for Diego Arias de Sotelo (G4 spouse), anchoring Leonor Valderrama’s civic milieu in Mexico City.
• Navarro / “El Navarro” cluster — Basque-Navarrese soldiers/settlers linked to mid-1500s arrivals; provides the surname path from Gabay to Navarro in G5–G6.
• Lampazos clergy network — “Padre Pedro Esparza” referenced in family tradition for Lampazos rites; contemporaneous with broader northern Nuevo León mission clergy.
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