Andres Gomez Robledo
(abt. 1643 - 1680)
Juana Ortiz Baca
(abt. 1648 - after 1680)
Andrés Gómez Robledo and Juana Ortiz Baca were the parents of
our ancestor, Francisca Gómez Robledo [abt.1674-1763],
who married our ancestor, Ignacio Roybal
y Torrado [1672-1757]. We know this
from the well-documented book, Origins of
New Mexico Families, Revised Edition, by Angélico
Chávez, p. 273-276.
Andrés, born about 1643 in Santa
Fe, was the
son of the Portugese-born Francisco
Gómez, who arrived in San Gabriel,
New
Mexico, about 1604.
There Francisco met and
married Andres’ mother, Ana Robledo Romero, a native of
New
Mexico. Ana’s grandparents and parents had been
original colonists of New Mexico
in 1598. Ana and Francisco had eight children, including Andrés.
Juana Ortiz Baca, was the daughter of Diego Montoya [1589-1661] and María Ortiz de Vera [abt. 1616-after
1680]. She was born in New Mexico
about 1648. Juana and Andrés married about 1666. By 1680, they had been married about
fourteen years and had six children. Andrés was a soldier in the presidio at
Santa Fe.
The
family lived at Las Barrancas, named for the high bluffs in the Río Abajo area.
The Gómez Robledo hacienda had developed into an important stop along this
section of El Camino Real. In 1665 Andrés and his brother Juan helped Governor
Peñalosa cheat on sacks of piñon pine nuts kept at the Gómez estancia.
With
two of his brothers Andrés served in the General Council of the Kingdom. He had risen in rank to be the Maese de
Campo, the military leader at Santa Fe.
On 10 August 1680, the family was forced
to leave their home due to the Pueblo Revolt.
They retreated into Santa Fe,
where the Pueblos then laid siege
to the town. Meanwhile the Indians
destroyed the family’s Las Barrancas hacienda.
In
Santa
Fe, the terrorized Spanish citizens who had taken
refuge there saw their food supply dwindle.
There wasn’t a lot of actual fighting during the siege, but in one
skirmish Andres Gómez Robledo was
killed. He was one of only four Spanish
soldiers to die and was the only officer to perish. He was buried in the
besieged city. Finally Governor Otermin decided to abandon the city to the
Pueblos,
and the newly-widowed Juana Ortiz Baca and
her children left the town and Andrés’ fresh grave in the exodus south along
the Río Grande to Guadalupe del
Paso [El Paso].
Thirteen
years later Juana and her children re-entered New Mexico,
but they could not return to their destroyed home at Las Barrancas. Apache
raids prevented Spanish resettlement of this area until Sabinal was established
in 1741. The family remained in Santa Fe.
Six
daughters survived Andrés, and they grew up glorifying the statue of La Conquistadora, making and caring for
her wardrobe, etc. The statue of the
Virgin Mary was taken to Guadalupe del Paso during the 1680 Revolt and returned
to Santa Fe with the 1693 re-entry
of the Spanish into New Mexico.
The historic wooden statue, brought to New Mexico
in 1625 by the Spanish, is today housed in the Cathedral of St. Francis in
Santa
Fe. A Catholic confraternity was named in her honor,
and there is a festival every year in Santa Fe
to honor her.
CHILDREN OF ANDRÉS GÓMEZ ROBLEDO AND JUANA ORTIZ BACA
[1] Francisca
Gómez Robledo, our ancestor, was born about 1678 in Santa
Fe. She married
our ancestor Ignacio Roybal y
Torrado. They lived in Santa
Fe and had a rancho in the Jacona area. See their biographies elsewhere in this work.
Francisca’s sister, Juana Gómez Robledo,
married Ignacio’s brother, Domingo
Santiago Roybal.
[2] Margarita
Gómez Robledo was born about 1677 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
She married Jacinto Peláez
[1670-] on 13 June 1691 in
Guadalupe del Paso. He was a native of
Villanueva,
Asturias. A land grant was given to Jacinto at Jacona near
San Ildefonso. They had two daughters. María married Juan Fernández de la Pedrera and Jacinta married {1} Antonio de Luna {2} Antonio Montoya. Margarita died
young, and Jacinto then married Isabel
de Cháves.
[3] María
Gómez Robledo was born about 1674 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
She married first Alonso
Romero. After his death she married Diego Arias de Quiróz on 28 July 1714 in San Ildefonso,
Santa
Fe County, New Mexico. She was
again a widow in 1738 when she sold a house and land contiguous to the east
tower of the Governor’s Palace. [p. 235, Vol.
I of the Spanish Archives of
New Mexico,
Archive #235]
[4] Lucía
Gómez Robledo was born about 1675 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
She married Miguel de Diós
Sandoval.
[5] Rosa
Gómez Robledo was born in Santa Fe.
No information.
[6] Juana
Gómez Robledo was born in Santa Fe. She married Domingo Santiago Roybal y Torrado, who died 3 May 1729 in San Ildefonso. He was the brother of our ancestor, Ignacio Roybal y Torrado.
Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009.
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