Fray Francisco Muños

  Noted events in his life were:

• He served in the military. ²⁵⁰
Fray Francisco Muños was assigned to Nuevo México from 1660 to 1680.

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁸⁴
One friar, Fray Francisco Muñoz, was denounced by Diego Pérez Romero, who in August 1663 stated that Muñoz "vivido siempre muy escandolossamente" ("always lived very scandalously") with a daughter of Captain Diego de Trujillo referred to as 'La Donosa' and her first cousin doña Juana López de Aragón. Fray Francisco Muñoz, who at age eighteen took the habit of San Francisco on December 20, 1646, in Mexico City, was as a native of Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain, and his mother was Madalena Sánchez de Iñigo.

The Sánchez de Iñigo article includes other evidence that supports the consideration of Fray Francisco Muñoz and doña Juana López de Aragón as the progenitors of the Sánchez de Iñigo family, and includes the marriage record of the paternal grandparents and names of the paternal great-grandparents of the Sánchez de Iñigo children of New Mexico.

Source cited by José Antonio Esquibel: El Farolito, Vol. 6, No. 4

From the article:

"The surname of Sánchez de Iñigo appears in records of late seventeenth-century New Mexico. The only known individuas with this surname living in New Mexico were Fray Francisco Muñoz Sánchez de Iñigo, the two sons of Juana López ~ Jacinto Sánchez de Iñigo and Pedro Sánchez de Iñigo ~ and Francisca Sánchez de Iñigo (an apparent sister of Jacinto and Pedro). In addition, given names that appear in the early generations of the Sánchez de Iñigo family-such as Jacinto, Pedro, Francisca, Franciso and Juan- are also found in the genealogy of Fray Francisco Muñoz and doña Juana López de Aragón, which is in accordance with the tradition of naming children after immediate relatives."

Fray Francisco Muñoz served in various pueblo in New Mexico between 1660 up until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. While at the Pueblo of Zia in Aug 1680, he escaped the revolt along with four soldiers. They were to meet up with Alonso García, lieutenant general or lieutenant governor in charge of the Río Abajo. The settlers of the Río Abajo had found safety at Isleta Pueblo, and Muñoz was one of the friars who agreed with García that they should move southward for safety. The last we hear of Fray Francisco Muñoz in New Mexico is from a letter he and three other friars wrote to the viceroy of New Spain onced they reached El Paso de Río del Norte.

José Antonio Esqibel, El Farolito, Winter 2003, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 11-13

Francisco had a relationship with Juana López de Aragón, daughter of Francisco López de Aragón and Ana Ortiz Baca. (Juana López de Aragón was born about 1640 in Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.)