Archivo Archivo General de Indias
Código de Referencia
ES.41091.AGI/16419//PASAJEROS,L.2,E.5314
Título DIEGO DE VILLARREAL
Alcance y Contenido DIEGO DE VILLARREAL, hijo de
Pedro de Villarreal y de Juana Díaz, vecino de Ciudad
Real, en la Armada de don Pedro de Alvarado.
Nivel de Descripción Unidad Documental Simple
Fecha(s) [c] 1538-10-09
Signatura(s) PASAJEROS,L.2,E.5314
Volumen
Productor(es) Información de Contexto
Unidades Relacionadas
Por Procedencia CONTRATACION,5536,L.5,F.333v
Índice(s) Alvarado Pedro de (Adelantado)
Ciudad Real (España)
Díaz, Juana
Guatemala
Villarreal, Diego de


Vela - Jorge Vela arrived in Mexico in 1531 from Solana, Ciudad Real. He was a
Conquistador of the Valley of Santiago and had been awarded tributes of land
in the land of the Chichimecas. He was on Mexican records in 1547. Parents:
Domingo Vela and Mari Fernandez.
Juan Vela arrived in 1539 from Medellin, Badajoz. He was a Conquistador of the
Yucatan in 1541. Parents: Rodrigo Vela and Catalina Rodriquez. He married Juana
de Aguirre who was the daughter of Diego de Villarreal a Conquistador of Chiapas.


The book "Lives of the Bigamists" marriage, family, and community in Colonial Mexico, speaks of a Diego de Villarreal who arrived in Mexico about 1522. In the conquest he lost one leg below the knee. After marrying Maria de Aguirre in 1529, Diego settled in the town of Santa Maria de la Victoria (Tabasco), and fathered four children. In 1544 he went to Peru , lived for a time in Potosi, and as a reward for his role in "pacifying and populating " Tucuman, received an encomienda in the district of
Santiago del Estero (probrably in 1522). After his departure Maria knew nothing of Diego's adventures and subsequent life in Santiago where, according to the testimony of an aquaintance in Peru, he moved about on horseback or a chair carried by his indians. In fact he had begun a new "married life", informally of course, with Francisca de Vega, the "servant" who lived with him for nine years and to whom he left a "quantity of gold pesos" in his will. Back in Victoria, Maria, after six years , gave up on Diego and remarried.


Diego de Villarreal Nueva Espana 1538 Pasajeros,L.2,E.5314 AGdI
Archivo Archivo General de Indias Código de Referencia ES.41091.AGI/16419//PASAJEROS,L.2,E.5314 Título DIEGO DE VILLARREAL
Alcance y Contenido DIEGO DE VILLARREAL, hijo de Pedro de Villarreal y de Juana Díaz, vecino de Ciudad Real, en la Armada de don Pedro de Alvarado. Nivel de Descripción Unidad Documental Simple Fecha(s) [c] 1538-10-09
Signatura(s) PASAJEROS,L.2,E.5314 Volumen Productor(es) Información de Contexto Unidades RelacionadasPor Procedencia CONTRATACION,5536,L.5,F.333v
Índice(s) Alvarado Pedro de (Adelantado)Ciudad Real (España) Díaz, Juana Guatemala
Villarreal, Diego de
hijo de Pedro de Villarreal y de Juana Díaz, vecinos de Ciudad Real, en la Armada de don Pedro de Alvarado from Cidudad Real, arrived in the New World in 1538 and joined up with Pedro de Alvardo in Guatemala. He was the son of Pedro Villarreal and Juana Diaz. Many of Alvarados men ended up in Nueva Galacia (Coahulia ). His brother Francisco de Villarreal came over at the same time. They probably operated together in those early years. (He Settled In Saltillo) ” (Brothers) who served with Alvarado in the conquest of Guatamala in 1538 WAA