Bartolomé Góngora

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events: ²⁴⁷
Bartolomé Góngora lived in Ecija for the first seven years of his life. His parents made a move to Sevilla in 1585, where he lived for the next twenty-five years of his life.

Bartolomé Góngora applied for a license for his family to relocate in New Spain in 1607. His destination was Zacatecas where his brother had made his fortune. At this time he described himself as being age thirty with a dark beard, and he described wife, age twenty-nine, as white and blond with a car above her left eye brow. The name his children as Juan de Góngora, age four and Hermingilda de Góngora, age one and one-half. A license was granted by the king on 1 Apr 1607.

The Góngora family sailed from Sevilla in mid-June 1608 on a ship commanded by Captain Tomé García. They went to Zacatecas, but settled in Mexico City by 1610 where their third child, Fernando de Góngora was born.

Bartolomé was a well read and educated man who wrote six books while in New Spain. He served Viceroy Diego de Pimentl, Conde de Gelves (Count of Gelves), as Corregidor of the Atitaquia jurisdiction. He was living as late as 1657.

~ Spanish Recolonization of NM, pp. 213-214

• He was employed. ¹⁵⁹⁹
Bartolomé Góngora, according to records, was a merchant. He also was a writer. He wrote an epic poem called "Octava Maravilla" about the conquest of Mexico.

Other books Bartolomé authored were:

• Historia de la Casa de Córdoba, a genealogical of the family of Capitán Gonzalo Fernández de Códoba
• Templo de la Inmortalidad, an epic poem on the history of famous Spaniards
• Elogios Seráficos, a poem in honor of Saint Francis
• El Cprregodpr Sagaz. a "four-volume treatison on colonial government administration.

Viceroy (New Spain), Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, duque de Alburquerque, appointed Bartolomé as corregidor of Atitalaquía. Bartolomé held this position from 1654 to 1656.

New Mexico Genealogist, June 2023, Vol. 62. No., p. 53

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁹⁹
When Bartolomé was seven years old, he was living and studying in Seville. In 1597, he entered the military and served under General don Francisco Arias Bobadilla and General don Diego Carrillo de Mendoza y Pimentel, the Marques's of Gelves, who later became the viceroy of Mexico.

Bartolomé Góngora and María de Treceño married on 5 Aug 1600 at the church of San Vicente in Seville. On 22 Jan 1607, Bartolomé petitioned the Casa de Contratación de las Indias to move to New Spain because his family could no longer live in Seville "in accordance with their family status." He also mentioned that his wealthy brother, Juan de Góngora was living in Zacatecas, and his brother had sent him the cost of the voyage.

Bartolomé received a license to travel with his family to New Spain on 23 Apr 1607. This document described Bartolomé de Góngora as age thirty, with a tan complexion and a black beard. His wife, María de Treceño was twenty-nine, fair skinned, blond and had a scar over her left eyebrown. With them was a nephew, Francisco, aged nine/ten years old. Their children were Juan, age four, fair-skinned & blond, and Hermenegilda, was eighteen months old.

The Góngora family resided in Mexico city by 1610. At least four more children were born to Bartolomé and María while in Mexico City. Three of these children were baptized at Santa Veracruz Church in Mexico City. Fernando was baptized on 10 Oct 1610, Bartolomé II was baptized on 24 Feb 1614 and Bernardo was baptized on 22 Oct 1617.

New Mexico Genealogist, June 2023, Vol. 62. No., pp. 52-53

Bartolomé married María de Treceño Palomeque, daughter of Pedro de Treceño and Ynés de Hermosilla, on 5 Aug 1600 in Sevilla, Andalucia, España ²⁴⁷.^,1599 (María de Treceño Palomeque was born in España, Iberia, died on 27 Jun 1633 in Ciudad de Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁵⁹⁹ and was buried in 1633 in Covento de San Juan de la Penitencia, Ciudad de Méjico, Nueva España ¹⁵⁹⁹.)