G1 — Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus) (1451–1506)
Admiral of the Ocean Sea; Discoverer of the New World
Married Doña Filipa Moniz de Perestrelo, Portuguese noblewoman.
└── G2 — Diego Colón, 1st Duke of Veragua (1479–1526)
 Married Doña María de Toledo y Rojas, niece of the Duke of Alba, member of the royal Toledo–Osorio house (and thus related to King Ferdinand II of Aragon).
 └── G3 — María Colón de Toledo
  Married Don Carlos Luna de Arellano, of the Navarrese Luna–Arellano line.
  └── G4 — Doña Juana de la Cueva Toledo Colón
   Great-granddaughter of Christopher Columbus, heiress of the Colón–Toledo house.
   Married Marqués Francisco Pacheco de Córdova y Coronado, Governor of Nueva Galicia, and great-grandson of the explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado.
G5 — Marqués Francisco Pacheco de Córdova y Coronado (b. ~1573 Mexico City – d. 1618)
 Governor of Nueva Galicia; Knight of Santiago; descendant of Coronado and Estrada–Caballería families.
 His Coronado–Estrada blood connects through Beatriz de Estrada, daughter of Don Alonso de Estrada, Treasurer & Acting Governor of New Spain (natural son of King Ferdinand II of Aragon).
 └── (Nueva Galicia kin-network) marriages unite the Coronado–Estrada–Caballería nobles with the de Tolosa–Navarro–Moctezuma line in Guadalajara and Zacatecas.
G6 — Doña Leonor Cortés y Moctezuma (c.1528–?)
 Daughter of Hernán Cortés, Conquistador of Mexico, and Princess Tecuichpotzin (Doña Isabel Moctezuma), daughter of Emperor Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin.
 Married Cristóbal de Valderrama, conquistador of Ecatepec.
 └── G7 — Doña Leonor Valderrama Cortés de Moctezuma
  Married Captain Juan de Tolosa, co-founder of Zacatecas.
  └── G8 — Ana de Tolosa Moctezuma
   Married Juan Navarro de Balbuena, founder family of Guadalajara.
   └── G9 — María Navarro Moctezuma
    (Heiress of the Moctezuma–Tolosa house; line merges with Estrada & Coronado descendants through shared Nueva Galicia kinships.)
G10 — Ana Francisca de Gabay Navarro y Moctezuma
 Daughter/descendant of María Navarro Moctezuma, carrying both Cortés and Moctezuma II descent.
 Married Lope Ruiz de Esparza I, Basque nobleman from Navarre (arrived to New Spain in 1593 per AGI Pasajeros a Indias).
 ➡️ This marriage is the union point between the Basque Esparza lineage and the Spanish–Indigenous royal bloodlines (Cortés, Moctezuma, Estrada, Coronado, and indirectly Columbus).
G11 — Lope Ruiz de Esparza I (b. ca.1560 Navarre – d. after 1608, New Spain)
 m. Ana Francisca Navarro y Moctezuma
 └── Founded the Esparza line of Saltillo → San Juan del Mesquital → Béxar, Texas.
  └── G12 — José María Esparza (b. 1742–1745, San Juan del Mesquital – d. 1823, Béxar)
   Married Ana Polonia Pérez (Saltillo).
   └── G13 — Juan Antonio Esparza (b. c.1775, Mesquital – d. <1818, Béxar)
    m. María Petra Olivas (b. 1773, Béxar).
    └── G14 — Gregorio Esparza (b. Feb 21, 1802, Béxar – d. Mar 6, 1836, Battle of the Alamo).
     Married María Josefa Ana Salazar (b. 1812, Béxar – d. 1849, Atascosa, TX).
G15 — Pedro José Guajardo Esparza (1792–1879, Lampazos – La Encantada Ranch, Cameron Co., TX)
 m. Felicidad Galán Villarreal (1794–1858)
 Founders of the South Texas Esparza-Villarreal ranching line, San Pedro de Carricitos / El Ranchito.
 Documented in Santanderos: Descendants of Felicidad Villarreal de Esparza.
 └── G16 — Carlos Villarreal Esparza (1828–1885) × Francisca Benavides García (1834–1914)
  └── Antonio García Esparza (1865–1935) × María Hilaria Cavazos Reyes (1870–1945)
   └── Samuel Reyes Esparza (1911–1980) × Ignacia Cortez Rodríguez (1916–1996)
    └── The Esparza Sisters