Francisco López Sambrano

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Another López Sambrano (Hernán?), husband of an Elena Gómez, who had had the encomienda of Awatobi, was a brother of Andrés. An Hernán Sambrano, Alférez, mentioned in the soldier-escort in 1625, might well be this man. He and Elena had a son Francisco López, and perhaps another, named Diego López.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 2707-2715

Francisco López, a captain, escaped the massacre in 1680 with his wife. He was described the following year as a native of New Mexico, forty-two years of age, tall and slim, having a swarthy complexion, black, curly hair, and the last joint of the little finger on the left hand broken. He was, perhaps, the son of Elena Gómez and her López Sambrano husband.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 2743-2747