Juan Griego
- Born: 1566, Candia, Greece (Crete)
- Marriage: Pascuala Bernal
- Died: After 1631, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España
 Noted events in his life and other information:
• Home: 252
He later reported his home as Negropote, Greece
• Dates & Events: 18 Aug 1598. 252,274
He was a member of the Oñate Party of 1598.
He was described as having a good stature, gray bearded and big wound on his forehead.
• Background Information: 252
JUAN GRIEGO answered the Onate muster-roll at Casco in 1597, declaring that he was accompanied by his wife, and that he was a native of the City of Candia in Greece, the son of Lázaro Griego. On another occasion, the same year, he gave "Negroponte" as his birthplace, and this is the place he also gave in 1598, when he was entered as the son of Lázaro Griego, thirty-two years old, a native of Greece in "Negropote," of good stature, greay-bearded, with a big wound on the forehead. If born in or near Candia, Crete, he was not only a contemporary but also a fellow-townsman of the great painter in Spain, Domenico Theotocopuli, otherwise known by his Italo-Spanish nickname of "El Greco." Was Juan Griego's family name also so hard to pronounce that even his father was known as "the Greek"?
Still living, and an Alférez, in 1631, Juan gave his age as sixty. His wife, Pascuala Bernal, was dead by 1626. Their known sons were; Juan II, Lázaro, and Francisco (this latter went by the name of Bernal). Their daughters were Catalina Bernal, wife of Juan Durán, María Bernal, married to Juan Gómez Barragán, Isabel Bernal, wife of Sebastián González, and Juana Bernal, married Diego de Moraga.
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Juan married Pascuala Bernal. (Pascuala Bernal was born in 1583 and died before 1626 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España 252.)
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