Diego de Montoya

  General Notes:

ONMF pgs. 77 & 112, 235

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ²⁷⁴
Diego de Montoya was an Alférez living in Santa Fé in 1628, and married to Ana Martín Barba, by whom he had a daughter Ynez de Zamora, who married Juan López. There were at least two sons, Pedro, twenty-six in 1634, and still living in 1663; and Bartolomé, who inherited his father's encomienda of San Pedro Pueblo around the year 1660.

Diego's first wife was dead by 1661 when he married Doña María Ortiz de Vera, the daughter of Diego de Vera and María de Abendaño. She brought with her three daughters from her ealier marriage: Beatriz, Josefa and Juana.
~The Origins of New México Families, pg. 252

• Residence, 1628, Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁵²

• Occupation, 1628. ²⁵²
Alférez (lieutenant) in Santa Fe 1628

Diego married María Ortiz de Vera, daughter of Diego de Vera and María de Abendaño, about 1636. (María Ortiz de Vera was born about 1616 in Santa Fé, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died after 1680.)