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The Cabeza de Baca family is an offshoot of the Baca family. The progenitor of this family is Luis María Cabeza de Baca. He was born as Luis Maria Baca on 26 October 1754, the oldest son of Juan Antonio Baca and Maria Romero. He had over 20 children by three different wives. [6]
Reprinted in The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca by Morris Bishop. New York: The Century Co., 1933. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was born around 1490 in the Andalusian town of Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz. His father, Francisco de Vera was an hidalgo, a rank of minor Spanish nobility. His mother was Teresa Cabeza de Vaca, also from an hidalgo family.
In 1835, Juan de Diós Maese and 28 other men petitioned the government of New Mexico for a land grant in the same area as Las Vegas Grandes, apparently unoccupied by the Baca family heirs. The grant, called the Town of Las Vegas Land Grant, was approved and the town of Las Vegas was established. The land in the grant was later measured to be ...
Cabeza de Baca was part of a prominent New Mexican family and one of four siblings. [3] She was a descendant of Spanish explorer, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Baca. [4] Her paternal great-grandfather was awarded the title to the Las Vegas Grandes land grant in 1823. [3]
Andrea Cabeza de Vaca y McDaniel, 15th Countess of la Mejorada [1] Count of la Mejorada ( Spanish : Conde de la Mejorada ) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain , granted in 1617 by Philip III to Antonio de Padilla, mayor of the fortresses of Martos and Alhama , two important enclaves of the Order of Calatrava during the Reconquista .
Isidro Forester Labrouche y Cabeza de Vaca, 6th Marquess of Moratalla [1] Marquess of Moratalla ( Spanish : Marqués de Moratalla ) is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Spain , granted in 1681 by Charles II to Francisco Luis Fernández de Córdoba, Lord of Belmonte and Moratalla.
Luis María Cabeza de Baca built a little house on the Gallinas River at the place called Loma Montosa, and ran sheep on the grant. He died in 1827 after being fatally wounded by a soldier in an argument over 13 packs of contraband pelts that belonged to American trapper Ewing Young. His son, Juan Antonio Baca, took on the ranching operation."
Martín Alhaja was a Spanish shepherd who aided the Castilian King Alfonso VIII during the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 A.D. Alhaja, who knew the area, to herd his sheep had placed a cow skull on the path that led to the field behind the Moors and onto the battlefield. The Spanish Christian King surprised the Moorish army and defeated ...