Notes for CATALINA SALAZAR-DE-CADENA:
Her grand-parents were members of the royal court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.
Her father was the lieutenant governor of all of New Spain and Factor of the Royal Treasuary in Mexico.
Dona Catalina was twice married. 1st. Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza. 2nd.Governor Cristobal de Onate.
Source:From the book’s
With all Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine.
Don Juan de Onate Colonizer of New Mexico, by George P. Hammond.
The Last Conquistador, Juan de Onate and the settling of the far Southwest, the author,
Marc Simmons, list her 1st husband as Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza.
Origen de los Fundadores de Texas, Nuevo Mexico, Coahuila, y Nuevo Leon, Saltillo Tomo II, by
Guillermo Garmendia Leal. Page 66.
Glory, God, and Gold, edited by Lewis Gannett.
From both of her marriages, she left descendents who now live in Texas.