Francisco Lucero de Godoy

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Francisco Lucero de Godoy, Alférez and Armorer, escaped in 1680 with a family of twenty-two, including wife, children, and servants. He was tall and erect with a thick beard, a wound-scar on his mustache and another on the right side of his nose. His lands in Santa Fe, which formerly belonged to Andrés López, were on the Ciénega road. In 1692 he took part in the Vargas Entry as a captain of artillery and armorer.

His first wife was Josefa López de Grijalva, daughter of Andrés López Sambrano. Her daughter testified years later that it was she who took out the venerated statue of La Conquistadora when the besieged people of Santa Fe withdrew to Guadalupe del Paso in 1680; she also personally brought it back, and was still living in Santa Fe in March, 1695. Josefa died shortly after, and Francisco then married Catalina de Espínola, the young widow of Antonio Jorge de Vera. He also was devoted to La Conquistadora. The children by his first wife were: Francisco Mateo, Beatriz, Josefa, María, wife of Juan de Alderete, and Lucía, wife of Francisco del Río.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 2844-2861

Francisco married Josefa Teresa López Sambrano, daughter of Andrés López Sambrano and Ana María de Anaya.²⁵²

Francisco next married Catarina de Espínola, daughter of Francisco Tomás de Espínola and Maria de las Heras, on 3 Sep 1695 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.³¹ (Catarina de Espínola was born in Ciudad de Méjico, Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial, 30 Aug 1695, Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España. ²⁴⁸
Francisco Lucero Godoy, vecino fo Santa Fé, widowed in first marriage of Doña Josefa Sambrano de Grijalva, son of Pedro Lucero de Godoy and Doña Francisca Gónez Robledo, both deceased, and Doña Catarina de Espínola, widow after one year of Antonio Jorge, buried at Santa Cruz de (Españoles)-Mexicanos, daughter of Don Francisco Espínola and Doña María de la Sera (las Heras). Witnesses: Antonio Gutíerrez (29), native of Real y Minas de Zacatecas and Presidio soldier; Antonio Sisneros (30), native of New Mexico; Andrés de Betanzos (40), native of Mexico City; Francisco Gonzles de la Rosa (40-plus), native of Guajocingoin the bishopric of Puebla. Pair married 3 Sep 1695, with witnesss Sargento Mayor Francisco Anaya Almazan and Relipa Rico de Rojas y Sedillo.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 965