Gutierre Porcallo de Sotomayor married in Badajoz, Maria Aldonza Manuel de Figueroa, who was born in Extremadura, and belonged to the illustrious Casa de los Condes who later became the Duques de Feria. They had seven children, María de Figueroa, Teresa de Sotomayor, Alvaro de la Cerda, Lope de Mendoza, Alonso de Sotomayor, Gómez Suarez de Figueroa, and Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa.
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Children of Gutierre Porcallo de Sotomayor and María Aldonza Manuel de Figueroa:

i Vasco Porcallo de Figueroa [8th great grandfather of Perucho]

ii Maria de Figueroa

iii Teresa de Sotomayor (3)

iv Alvaro de la Cerda

v Lope de Mendoza was a famous capitán in the conquest of America.

vi Alonso de Sotomayor (3), also, was a famous capitán in the conquest of America. He was living in Trinidad, in Cuba, when in 1528, as maestre de campo [???], he joined the ill fated expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez to Florida. In Narración de Cabeza de Vaca we read of the failure of the expedition and that of the 600 men who arrived in Florida in April, 1528, only four survived, including Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca who reached Mexico, nine years and 6000 miles later.

In his Narración de Cabeza de Vaca, the author wrote of Alonso de Sotomayor: Thus they perished one after another, the survivors slicing the dead for meat. The last one to die was Sotomayor, and Esquivel cut him up and fed on his body until the first of March, when an Indian, of those who had taken to flight previously, came to look if they were dead and took Esquivel along with him.

vii Gomez Suarez de Figueroa (4) married Isabel Perea or Luisa Isabel de la Perea y Galindo, in Ecija, Seville, Spain, in about 1487. She was the daughter of Pedro de la Perea and María Fernández Galindo y Zayas and was born in about 1473, in Ecija.

revised 9-26-02