Leonor de Orozco ²⁵⁰

  General Notes:

Herencia. July 1996 p. 3

  Noted events in her life were:

• Will: Both Leonor and her husband wrote their wills, 1623, Valladolid, Michoacán, Nueva España. ²⁵⁰

• Reference. ²⁵⁰
From Beyond Origins written by José Antonio Esquibel :
"Leonor Orozco has an ancestry the reaches back to the early 1400s in Spain, if not back to the late 1300s. It is the only confirmed New Mexico family ancestry that can be extended to the middle ages. Her family genealogy was researched by Mariano González Leal and José Igncaio Dávila Garibi. Members of the Orozco family are among the common ancestors for people with roots in Nueva Galicia. "

• Background Information:
Doña Leonor de Orozco was the daughter of
Juan Lucas Morcillo, originally from Castile, and doña Ysabel de Orozco. This last. She belonged to an illustrious and ancient New Spain family. Among his ancestors he counted don Diego de Orozco, Commander of Pozo Rubio in the Order of Santiago, and he also came from the House of Villaseñor de la Villa de Vélez, one of whose most illustrious members was Captain don Juan of that surname, conqueror of New Spain and founder of Valladolid...

Juan de Alcalá y Zamora and doña Leonor de Orozco had four children, namely:

a) Juliana de la Cruz, Professed Nun in the Convent of Santa Catalina de Sena; in the century, Mariana de Alcalá;
b) Francisca de Santa Gertrudis, who died as a novice; c) Juan Lucas de Alcalá y Orozco, who married doña Juana de la Mora-Hurtado de Mendoza y de Ochoa Garibay, also known as Juana de Aviña y Hurtado de Mendoza, baptized in Zamora on 28 Jan, 1616; daughter of don Juan and doña Francisca de la Mora-Hurtado de Mendoza; and they were neighbors of Tlazazalca, in whose jurisdiction they owned ranches';
d) Doña Isabel de Alcalá, wife of the peninsular Cristóbal García de Lara...

Leonor Orozco was the daughter of Juan Lucas Morcillo, a native of Castile, and doña Ysabel de Orozco. Doña Ysabel Orozco had two sisters: doña Catalina de Orozco married to don Bartolomé Rodríguez de Aranda, with descendants, and doña María de Orozco married to don Tomás de Burgos Antolines, a native of the Kingdoms of Castile [Spain], with descendants. These sisters were daughters of don Pedro Hernández de Aguilera, owner of the hacienda of Xanamuato, New Spain [Michoacán], and doña Beatriz de Orozco Tovar, a native of the town of Vélez, in the Kingdoms of Castile [Spain].

source: [Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia: 2. parte ; 3. parte (principio). Diccionario genealógico de las familias alteñas (Abalza-Cano) Volume 2, Part 2 of Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia, Jalisco (Mexico). Mariano González-Leal, Gobierno de Jalisco, Secretaría General de Gobierno, Dirección de Publicaciones, 2010, University of California].

Leonor married Juan Alcalá y Zamora, son of Juan Alcalá and Ysabel Zamora. (Juan Alcalá y Zamora was born in Yelamos, España ²⁵⁰ and died after 1623 in Valladolid, Michoacán, Nueva España.)