Juan de Pantoja
- Born: Medellín, Extremadura, España 1600
- Marriage: Catalina de Medina 1600
- Died: After 10 Jan 1577, Nueva España
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information: 1600
Juan de Pantoja was originally from Medellín, Spain. He was regidor of Pátzcuro, which was later named Ciudad Michoacán. He married Catalina de Medina, the daughter of Domingo de Medina, also one of the early settlers of Michoacán.
New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. 62, No. 3, September 2023, pp. 127-128.
• Background Information:
"December 20, 1538: Councilor of the city of Pátzcuaro. Juan Pantoja says that he is from Mechoacán and a native of Medellín, and the legitimate son of Pedro Pantoja and Catalina Rodríguez; and that twenty-six years ago he moved to this New Spain, which was before this city (Pátzcuaro) was conquered. After it was conquered, he went with Xriptóual Dolid to the conquest of Mechoacán. He has been married for thirteen years, and has six daughters and two sons; and that it was found in the last pacification of the New Galicia, and has encomienda the town of Guacana on 10 Jan 1577. Declaration of Gonzalo Hernández, conqueror of New Spain and resident of Mexico City, he has known the said Juan de Pantoja for more than forty years and that he knows that he was found in the conquest of this city of Mexico. Hernández Nieto conqueror has told this witness... the said Pantoja and his uncle had come to the said conquest thirty days before the land was won and this witness also knows from having told him that the said Juan Pantoja was found in the conquests of Colima and Zacatula and other parts. Juan Pantoja is a gentleman and a well-known son and daughter because he was like that and his uncle said that he came with him.
Statement from other witnesses: the town of Aguacana [Huacana] was entrusted to him in the name of His Majesty. He was married and veiled, according to the order of the Holy Mother Church, to Catalina de Medina, daughter of Domingo de Medina, a very old settler."
Sources:
"MEXICO,1088,L.3,F.233V(2) - Real Provisión Concediendo El Título de Regidor de Michoacán a Juan de Pantoja." 2021. PARES. 2021.
" INDIFERENTE,120,N.74 - MERITOS: Sebastián de Lapeña Y Mendoza." 2021.
Romero de Solis, José Miguel. 2001. Andariegos y pobladores Nueva España y Nueva Galicia siglo XVI.
FromThePage.com. 2021. " Conquistador. Información de Méritos Y Servicios. México. (Ver: Icaza. No. 123.) (Spanish Colonial Manuscripts at the Benson Latin American Collection) | FromThePage." Utexas.edu. 2021.
Juan married Catalina de Medina, daughter of Domingo de Medina and Lucía Velásquez de Loaysa.
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