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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510-1554)

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Lineage of Esparza de Navarro y Coronado
G1 — Don Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (c.1510–1554) — Conquistador & Governor of Nueva Galicia; explorer of the American Southwest (Palo Duro Canyon, Grand Canyon).
Married Doña Beatriz de Estrada y de la Cerda, daughter of Governor & Royal Treasurer Alonso de Estrada (natural son of King Ferdinand II of Aragon) and Doña Marina Gutiérrez Flores de la Caballería of Almagro, La Mancha.
└── G2 — Beatriz Vázquez de Coronado y Estrada  m.  [Rodrigo or Juan] Rodríguez de Sosa
King Ferdinand II of Aragon └── Don Alonso de Estrada y de la Caballería × Doña Mariana Gutiérrez Flores de la Caballería ├── Beatriz Estrada de la Caballería × Francisco Vázquez de Coronado └── Ana Estrada de la Caballería × Juan Alonso de Sosa Cabrera └── Captain Alonso de Sosa Albornoz × María-Beatriz Navarro Rodríguez de Sosa └── **Doña María Rodríguez de Sosa**
 
Doña María Rodríguez de Sosa
Married Don Juan Navarro, of the distinguished Navarro family of Castile and New Spain.
└── G3 — Doña María Beatriz Navarro Rodríguez Castaño Sosa (b. c.1575 – d.1674, Monterrey, N.L.)
Married Captain Bernabé de las Casas (b. c.1573, Tenerife – d. c.1637, Salinas Victoria, N.L.), soldier of the 1598 Oñate entrada into New Mexico.
└── G4 — Beatriz de las Casas Navarro (b. c.1604 – d.1674, Monterrey)
Married Alférez Diego de Villarreal (son of Don Francisco Villarreal).
└── G5 — Captain Juan Bautista de Villarreal (b. c.1620s – d.1695, Monterrey)
Married Luisa de la Garza García (daughter of Francisco de la Garza Falcón Treviño & Juana Gutiérrez de Lara García).
└── G6 — Captain Bernabé de Villarreal de la Garza (b.1635 – d.1694, Monterrey)
Married María Isabel de la Garza García.
└── G7 — Antonia de Villarreal (b.1675, Salinas Victoria)
Married Bernabé Rodríguez de Carvajal (of the Uribe–de la Cadena branch).
└── G8 — Isabel Gutiérrez de Lara
Married José Nicolás de la Garza Falcón Gutiérrez (of the de la Garza–Falcón colonizing family).
└── G9 — Isabel María de la Garza de la Garza
Married José Julián Guajardo Rodríguez de Quiroga (of Monterrey & Lampazos families).
└── G10 — Francisco Javier García Guajardo (1724–1797)
Great-grandson of Captain Diego Rodríguez de Montemayor (1530–1610), founder & first governor of Monterrey (1596), and grandson of Captain Diego Rodríguez de Montemayor y Porcallo (1560–1616), governor of Nuevo León.
Married María Josefa Saldua Quintanilla (1721–1806).
└── G11 — María Rita Guajardo Quintanilla (b. 12 May 1750, Monterrey – d. Lampazos)
Married Manuel Elijio Esparza Aríspe (b. 13 Apr 1730, Saltillo – d. Lampazos)   m: 27 Apr 1775 (Lampazos de Naranjo, N.L.).
— Brother “Padre Pedro Esparza,” family priest at San Juan Bautista Mission (Lampazos), officiated their marriage and children’s baptisms.
└── G12 — Pedro José Guajardo Esparza (b. 04 Mar 1792, Lampazos – d. 1879, La Encantada Ranch, Cameron Co., TX)
Married Felicidad Galán Villarreal (1794–1858)   m: 06 Feb 1809.
└── G13 — Carlos Villarreal Esparza (1828–1885)
Married Francisca Benavides García (1834–1914)   m: 30 Jan 1850.
└── G14 — Antonio García Esparza (1865–1935)
Married María Hilaria Cavazos Reyes (1870–1945)   m: 24 Apr 1887.
└── G15 — Samuel Reyes Esparza (1911–1980)
Married Ignacia Cortez Rodríguez (1916–1996)
└── G16 — The Esparza Sisters
Affiliated Kinships:
• Captain Bernabé de las Casas — served under Juan de Oñate in 1598; related to the Basque Las Casas settlers of Tenerife; allied with the Navarro–Rodríguez de Sosa founders of Monterrey.
• Alonso de Estrada (1470–1530) — Royal Treasurer and Acting Governor of New Spain; natural son of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. His daughter Beatriz de Estrada married Coronado, linking Spanish royal blood with New World conquest.
• Captain Blas de la Garza Falcón (1591–1669) — parallel founder and patriarch of the de la Garza Falcón colonizing line; related to the Villarreal–de la Garza marriages in this tree.
• Captain Diego Rodríguez de Montemayor (1530–1610) — Founder & first Governor of Monterrey; ancestor of María Margarita Rodríguez de Montemayor through the Montemayor founder branch connected to the Guajardo family.
• Padre José Nicolás (Pedro) Esparza / Padre José Nicolás Ballí — Missionary contemporaries in northern Nuevo León and early Texas; “Padre Island” (granted 1759 by King Carlos III) honors Padre Ballí, within the same Lampazos clergy network as the Esparza family.

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado came to New Spain during the height of Spain’s colonial expansion in the Americas. Born around 1510 in Salamanca, Spain, he arrived in the New World as a young nobleman seeking both glory and service to the Crown. By 1538, Coronado had married Beatriz de Estrada y de la Cerda, the daughter of Don Alonso de Estrada—the Royal Treasurer and acting Governor of New Spain. Through this marriage, Coronado gained not only wealth and influence but also a direct connection to the royal administration of the colony. Appointed Governor of Nueva Galicia, he soon became one of the most powerful colonial officials in northern New Spain.

In 1540, inspired by reports from the friar Marcos de Niza about the mythical “Seven Cities of Cíbola,” Coronado led one of the most ambitious expeditions of the 16th century. With the blessing of Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, he set out from Compostela with more than 300 Spaniards, over 1,000 Mexican Indian allies, and a large remuda of horses and livestock. The powerful explorer Juan de Oñate—then a wealthy colonist and later the founder of New Mexico—helped provision Coronado’s forces with horses, cattle, and equipment, recognizing the expedition’s importance for expanding Spain’s northern frontier.

Coronado’s journey took him across what is now northern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas. In 1541, while pursuing rumors of a wealthy land called Quivira, his men became the first Europeans to record the sweeping beauty of the Llano Estacado and Palo Duro Canyon in modern Texas—the second largest canyon in North America. Two years earlier, detachments under García López de Cárdenas, one of Coronado’s captains, stumbled upon a chasm so vast that they could not see the river below—becoming the first Europeans to lay eyes on the Grand Canyon.

Though Coronado found no cities of gold, his journey permanently reshaped Spain’s understanding of the American Southwest. The horses Oñate and other colonial ranchers had supplied multiplied across the plains, transforming the cultures of Indigenous nations for centuries. Coronado returned to Mexico City in 1542 disappointed and in debt, but his trail became the map for later colonization. His expedition opened the routes that would link Mexico to the Rio Grande, New Mexico, and the Great Plains—forever changing the landscape of the Southwest.

Lineage from Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to Delfina Esparza Pérez
G1 — Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510–1554) — Conquistador & Governor of Nueva Galicia; explorer of the American Southwest (Palo Duro Canyon, Grand Canyon).
Married Beatriz Estrada de la Caballería (daughter of Don Alonso de Estrada, Treasurer and Governor of New Spain, and Doña Mariana Gutiérrez Flores de la Caballería of Almagro, La Mancha).
└── G2 — Lusia (Luisa) de Estrada Coronado
Married (1) Luis Ponce de León; (2) Martín de Irigoyen.
└── G3 — María de Irigoyen Estrada
Married Juan Navarro de Balbuena, of the founder family of Guadalajara.
└── G4 — Francisca Navarro de Estrada
Married Don Diego de Sosa Albornoz, of the Estrada–de Sosa line of New Spain.
└── G5 — María Ana de Sosa Albornoz Navarro
Married General Alonso de Farías Treviño, of Monterrey, Nuevo León.
└── G6 — Francisca de Treviño Navarro
Married Captain Blas María de la Garza Falcón (founder of Camargo, Nuevo León / Tamaulipas).
└── G7 — Gertrudis de la Garza Falcón
Married Don José Salvador de la Garza, grantee of the Espíritu Santo Land Grant (1781).
└── G8 — María Francisca Xaviera de la Garza
Married Captain José Manuel de Goseascochea.
└── G9 — Doña Estefana Goseascochea Cavazos de Cortina
Married (1) José Francisco Vicente Cavazos; (2) Trinidad Cortina.
└── G10 — Sabas Cavazos (son of Estefana)
Married María Eulogia Guerra.
└── G11 — Inocente Cavazos Reyes
Married Guillermo Reyes.
└── G12 — María Hilaria Cavazos Reyes
Married Antonio García Esparza (son of Carlos V. Esparza, of the San Pedro de Carricitos land grant).
└── G13 — Samuel Esparza Cortez
Married Dina Ignacia Rodríguez Cortez.
└── G14 — Delfina Esparza Pérez
Affiliated Kinships & Notes:
• Don Alonso de Estrada (1470–1531) — Royal Treasurer and Acting Governor of New Spain; natural son of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. His daughter Beatriz de Estrada married Coronado, linking royal Spanish blood with the founders of New Spain.
• Captain Blas María de la Garza Falcón (1712–1767) — Spanish colonial founder of Camargo and pioneer of South Texas ranching legacy.
• José Salvador de la Garza — recipient of the Espíritu Santo Land Grant (1781), cornerstone of later Garza–Cavazos–Esparza holdings in South Texas.
• San Pedro de Carricitos Grant — royal land concession later tied to the Esparza family through Antonio García Esparza and his descendants.

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