Madrid

Francisco de Madrid II (ONMF: 66), apparently a son of Francisco de Madrid I and María de la Vega Márquez, was identified by fray Angélico Chávez as the father of Lorenzo de Madrid, Roque de Madrid, Juan de Madrid, and possibly two others, Francisco III and Pedro (ONMF, 660; NMR, 1038, DM 1691, March 24, no. 3). The information provided by fray Angélico Chávez in Origins of New Mexico Families about Francisco de Madrid II is brief, and even the name of Madrid's wife is not identified.

Research into a number of records of the Inquisition for seventeenth century New Mexico has uncovered several pieces of additional information concerning Francisco de Madrid II. In 1662, he held the rank of sargento mayor and had been appointed as Comisario de Cavallos. On 6 September 1662, Francisco de Madrid provided testimony before officials of the Inquisition in Santa Fe and declared he was forty-nine years of age (born circa 1613), and named his wife as doña María de Albizu (AGN, Inquisición, tomo 593, folio 154-56). A month later, on 10 October 1662, he again gave Inquisition testimony in Santa Fe and this time he gave his age as forty-seven (born circa 1615) (AGN Galería No. 4, Concursos de Peñalosa, exp 605). In addition, he was identified as being castizo, meaning one of his parents was español and the other was mixed español-Indian (mestizo/mestiza) (AGN, Inquisición t. 587, f. 377).

According to Chávez, the wife of Francisco de Madrid II was a daughter of Juan Ruiz Cáceres. A pre-nuptial investigation record dated 24 March 1691 identifies Juan de Madrid as a son of Francisco de Madrid and Sebastiana Ruiz. Another pre-nuptial investigation record identifies Roque de Madrid as a son of Sebastiana Ruiz de Cáceres. It appears that Francisco was widowed of Sebastiana by September 1662 and was then married with doña María de Albizu, whose previous husband, Cristóbal Enríquez, was beheaded in 1643 for his role in the murder of Governor Rosas (ONMF, 28). It is not known if Francisco de Madrid and doña María de Albizu had any children during the course of their marriage.

In an Inquisition testimony given by Juan Luján, alcalde mayor of La Cañada, countering false claims made by Governor don Bernardo López de Mendizábal, Sargento Mayor Francisco de Madrid was referred to as one of the honorable men in the town of Santa Fe who had twice held the post of alcalde ordinario, and Luján further stated that Madrid was married with doña María de Albizu, a mestiza and a very honorable lady as well as the legitimate daughter of Maestre de Campo Tomás de Albizu (AGN, Galería No. 4, Concursos de Peñalosa, exp. 605).

Doña María de Albizu provided testimony in Santa Fe on 4 November 1661 in the Inquisition's case against Governor López de Mendizábal, declaring she was forty years old (born circa 1621), a native and resident of Santa Fe, and named her husband as Sargento Mayor Francisco de Madrid. She also referred to doña María de Abendaño as her "cuñada," sister-in-law (AGN, Inq, t. 593, f. 267). Testimony given by doña Catalina de Zamora in March 1662 identified doña María de Abendaño as the wife of Antonio de Salas, parents of Petronila de Salas (AGN, Inquisición, t. 593, f. 294). The exact nature of the relationship between doña María de Albizu and doña María de Abendaño as sisters-in-law is not clear based on available genealogical information.

Doña María de Albizu, born circa 1621, had first married Cristóbal Enríquez, and they were the parents of Estefanía Enríquez, born circa 1641 (ONMF: 15 & 28). According to Inquisition records, Estefanía Enríquez married her blood uncle, Agustín Carbajal, "por sangre en segunda y prima hermana de María Márquez [first wife of Carvajal]" (AGN, Inquisición, t. 587, f. 309-12).

Researcher: José Antonio Esquibel

The above information was originally published as : José Antonio Esquibel, “Francisco de Madrid II: Information from Seventeenth Century Inquisition Records,” in El Farolito, quarterly journal of the Olibama López Tushar Hispanic Legacy Research Center, Vol. 4, No. 3, fall 2001: 12-14.