Diego Pérez Romero

  General Notes:

Herencia, Vol. 11, 2003, chart on the "Romero-Robledo and Related Families of Seventeenth Century New Mexico" p. 10 ¹⁵⁰⁵

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Diego Romero, by which name he went afterwards, was deeply involved in matters of the Inquisition. Forbidden to return to New Mexico, he wrote his wife to join him in New Spain, and to marry off his sister to an Alonso Lucero. Diego's wife was Catalina de Zamora, daughter of Pedro Lucero de Godoy, who apparently did not heed her husband's wishes, as she appears among the refugees of 1680 with four grown nieces.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 3990-4002

• Family Background: ¹⁵⁰⁵
Diego Pérez Romero stood trail before the Inquisition Tribunal in Mexico City, and spent over a year and one-half in prison there until his realize on 17 Dec 1664. At these hearings Diego Pérez gave information about his family in New Mexico. He was forty years old and served as squadron leader and captain. He named his father as Gaspar Pérez, a native of Brussels and an armorer of Santa Fé whodied in Santa Fé in 1646. Gaspar's mother was María Romero who was born in San Gabriel. He did not know the name of his father's parents, but he knew his mother's father was Bartolomé Romero, anative of the Archbishopric of Toledo. His mother was Lucía Robledo. One of his uncles was named Gil Pérez, also from Brusses and a armorer who returned to his homeland.

Pérez Romero's mother was a sibling of Captain Bartolomé Romero, a native of San Gabriel who had held the post of protector de Indios. Bartolomé was married to doña María del Moral of Santa Fé, and this couple were his padrinos as well as the parents of another Bartolomé Romero and a Nicolás Romero, both born in Santa Fé.

Diego Pérez Romero identified his maternal uncle, Matía Romero, a former regidor and alcalde ordinario of the Villa de Santa Fé, who had died in 1646 at Santa Ana Pueblo. Doña Isable de Pedraza, naitve of New Mexico, was the wife of Matías Romero, and they were the parents of six children: Pedro Romero, Francisco Romero, Bartolomé Romer, Frelipe Romero, Lucía Romero and Cataline López Robeldo, alias Catalina López Romero, all New Mexicans.

A second maternal uncle,Agustín Romero,, held the positions of capitain, regifor and alcalde before his death in San Felipe Masaca de Santiago. Agustín married doña Isabel de Slazar and had three children: Augustín Romero, doñ Lucía Robledo and doña Sebastiana Robledo, all of whom were residing inNewMexico.

Another sibling of Deigo's mother was his aunt doña Ana Robledo who was the widow of Francisco Gómez and a resident of the Villa de Santa Fé. Ana's children were Francisco Gómez Robledo, José Gómez Robledo, Juan Gómez Robledo, Andrés Gómez Robledo, doña Francisca Gómez Robledo and dña Ana Gómez Robledo, all residents of New Mexico. His two other maternal uncles were Pedro Robledo and Diego Robledo, both who died very young.

Of Diego Pérez Romero's siblings, two brother had died in the service of the king, both being single and died without issue. His brothers were Bartolomé Pérez Romero who died in 1633/4 at the age of twenty and Gaspar Pérez Romero who died at the age of twenty-two and was buried at the church in Santa Fé. Diego named a half-sister, María Pérez, the natural daughter of his father who was being raised by his mother was singe and age sixteen.

For himself, Diego declared he was married to Catalina de Zamora of Santa Fé, the daughter of Maese de Campo Pedro Lucero de Godoy and doña Petronila deZamora. The did not have children atthe time.

Diego married Catalina de Zamora, daughter of Pedro Lucero de Godoy and Petronila de Zamora, on 3 Jun 1641 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.¹⁵⁰⁵ (Catalina de Zamora was born in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)