Lopo de Argüelles

  General Notes:

[Sources for the Montes Vigil line: John B. Colligan, Herencia, Vol. 4, Issue 2, April 1999, pp. 1-2, José Antonio Esquibel, "The Montes Vigil Family Genealogy and the Genealogy of the Argüellles Family," Herencia, Vol. 13.2, pp. 2-35 and El Farolito, Volume 2, No. 4, Winter 1999, pages 7-9. "Montes Vigil Direct Lines," pp. 9-10 & "Vigil History," pp.13-14] ^{1570,1571,1572}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: Vega de Pojo, San Martino de Siero, Asturias, España. ¹⁵⁷²
Don Lope de Argüelles, along with his wife doña María de Estrada, made their will in 1573. Both were residents and taxpaying citizens Vega de Poja in the parish of San Martino de Siero, Asturías, España. This will includes the names of four generations of their family. It also lists the distribution of thier possessions. They requested that they would be buried in the parish church of San Martín de Siero.

The will reveals that Don Lope de Argülles was married before to a woman named María Valdés with whom he had a son, Juan de Argüelles, who was the heir to his hereditary lands as well as his parent's titles. With his second wife, don Lope had a daughter named Catalina who married Francisco de Vigil, the second great-grandparents of Francisco Montes Vigil, the progenator of the Vigil family in New Mexico.

"The Montes Vigil Family Genealogy and the Genealogy of the Argüellles Family," Herencia, Vol. 13.2, p. 12

• Families: ¹⁵⁷²
Family 1 : María de Valdés Vigil
Juan de Argüelles
María Valdés
Estébana de Argüelles

Family 2 : María de Estrada
Gabriel de Argüelles
Catalina de Argüelles
Lope de Argüelles
Lucrecia de Argüelles
Leonor Argüelles
Isabel Argüelles
Mencia de Argüelles
Marquesa de Argüelles
Matía de Argüelles

Lopo married María de Estrada, daughter of Diego de Argüelles and Leonor de Herrera.¹⁵⁷² (María de Estrada was born in España, Iberia and died after Oct 1577 in España ¹⁵⁷².)