Diego de Vera (1593 - after 1626) Maria de Abendano (abt. 1606 - after 1630) Diego de Vera and María de Abendaño were the parents of María Ortiz de Vera [abt. 1625-after 1680], who married Diego de Montoya.  We know this from Origins of New Mexico Families, Revised Editon, by Fray Angélico Chávez, page 112:   DIEGO DE VERA came to Santa Fe sometime before 1622, and on January 16 of that year he married María de Abendaño, daughter of Simón de Abendaño and Maria Ortiz [Baca], both deceased.  The witnesses were Don Pedro Durán y Cháves and his wife, Isabel de Bohórquez [Baca], aunt of the bride.  Three years later, Fray Alonso Benavides came to Santa Fe as head of the Church in New Mexic, but also representing the Inquisition; as a layman he had been its sheriff in the Canary Islands.  Now, Diego de Vera had a wife in Tenerife in the Canaries.  The presence of Father Benavides finally compelled him to go to the Padre and disclose his bigamous status.  When he left New Mexico in 1626, Father Benavides took him along to Mexico City, and there Diego was tried by the Holy Office.  But because Benavides pleaded that he had confessed the crime voluntarily and had been a good encomendero in New Mexico, personally teaching the catechism to the Indians under him, Diego got off with an easy sentence from the Holy Office. He was to return to his wife in the Canaries and never return to New Mexico.  He sailed for Europe in the company of good Fr. Benavides. Diego was thirty-three in 1626 when he revealed his bigamy.  His Santa Fe wife [María de Abendaño] was mentioned as a granddaughter of Captain Juan López Holguín [aka Olguín] They had two little children, both girls.  These were María, who became the wife of Manuel Jorge and then of Diego de Montoya, and Petronila, who married Pedro Romero.  After the annulment, their mother [María de Abendaño] married Antonio de Salas. Since Diego de Vera, through his two daughters, became the ancestor of leading New Mexicans in later generations, it is well to give his own genealogy, which came out during his trial.  His parents were Pedro de Vera Perdomo and María Betancur, residents of the city of La Laguna on Tenerife.  His paternal grandparents were Hernán Martín Baena, a native of Jerez de los Caballeros in Estremadura, and Catalina García, native of La Laguna on Tenerife. His maternal grandparents were Antonio Pérez, born on the Canary Island of La Graciosa, and Catalina Aponte, native of Garachico on Tenerife. María de Abendaño and Antonio de Salas, her second husband, had several children, among them, Simón de Salas, probably named for María’s father, Simón de Abendaño.  Presumably they died in New Mexico. Vera Vera, Juan de - Came to Mexico with Narvaez. Married a woman from Spain. Grandsons: Diego Centeno, Diego and Pedro Castrejon. Granddaughters married: Cristobal Fajardo and Caspar Maciel. Submitted by Donald Rivara, June 23, 2009. Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor