Ygnacio Roybal y Torrado

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ²⁵²
Ygnacio de Roybal y Torrado, twenty-one years old, the son of Pedro de Roybal y Torrado and Elena de la Cruz, was a native of Caldas de Reyes, a few miles south of Compostela, in Galicia, who came as a soldier of the Reconquest in 1693. On February 8, 1694, he married Francisca Gómez Robledo.

Ygnacio received land grants in Santa Fe and the San Ildefonso (Jacona) district, and was active in Vargas' campaigns in Reconquest years. He also served most of his life as High Sheriff of the Inquisition He died in Santa Fe at the age of "eighty and more years" on July 14, 1756; his widow followed him on March 2, 1763, "more than a hundred years old." Ygnacio had belonged to the Confraternity of La Conquistadora. Their children were the following: María Manuela, who married Juan de Archibeque in 1719, and then Bernardino de Sena, but had no children by either husband; María, wife of Miguel de Archibeque, then of José Reaño, and later of Felipe de Rojas Sandoval; Juana, wife of Juan José Moreno; Elena, who married Juan Manuel Martín in 1731; and the sons: Santiago, Bernardo, Mateo, Ygnacio, and Pedro.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 12281-12304

Ygnacio married Francisca Gomez Robledo, daughter of Andrés Gómez Robledo and Juana Ortiz Baca, on 8 Feb 1694 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁴⁸.^,252 (Francisca Gomez Robledo was born in 1664 in San Ildefonso, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España and died on 2 Mar 1763 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España ²⁵².)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial: ²⁴⁸
25 Jan 1694, Santa Fé. Ygnacio de Roybal y Torrado, son of Pedro Roybal y Torrado and Elena de la Cruz, natives of Caldas de Reyes, Archbishopric of Santiago in Galicia, and doña Francisca Gómez Robledo, daughter of Andrés Gómez Robledo, deceased, and doña Juana Ortiz, espanoles of Santa Fé.

Witnesses:
Juan Fernández (25), native of La Corte de Madrid who knew groom for 6 years, after coming in a later fleet
Domingo de la Barrera (30), native of the City of Zamora, Realms of Castile, who first met groom at El Real de Sombrerete
Juan Parez Pacheco (52), native of this kingdom of New Mexico who knew bride since her birth
Diego Varela (40), native of this Kingdom.

Pair married, 8 Feb 1694, with witnesses Teniente General Luis Granillo and his wife doña Magdalena Varela.

Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1628