Capitán Diego de Medina

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁵²
Diego de Medina, who did not know who his parents were, was born in the City of Durango. He was a soldier in Santa Fe in 1694 when he married María Zapata Telles Jirón. Two known children of theirs were Ramón and Josefa. The girl married Diego Romero of Santa Cruz in 1714.

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 10210-10215

Diego d Medina and María Zapata Jirón had these other children: Ysidro, who married Catalina Martín in 1717; and the girls Antonia and Juana, who in 1718 married Juan Luis Martín and Antonio Montoya, respectively (DM, 1717, no. 16; 1718, nos. 20, 22).

~ Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period, Kindle Locations 16230-16234

Diego married María Telles Jirón, daughter of José Téllez Girón and Catalina Romero de Pedraza, on 7 Feb 1694 in Santa Fé, Nuevo Méjico, Nueva España.²⁴⁸ (María Telles Jirón was born in Nueva España.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Diligencia Matrimonial. ²⁴⁸
26 Jan 1694, Santa Fé. Diego de Medina (20), native of the city of Durango and New Mexico soldier, parents unknown, and Doña María Zapata, daughter of Captain José Telles Jiron and Doña Catarina Romero, vecinos of Santa Fé ~ Witnesses: Carlos Diaz (22), native of Puebla de los Angeles; Domingo de la Barrera (30), native of the city of Zamora in Castille; Pedro López (30), native of New Mexico who knew the bride from her first years; and Juan Griego (29), native of New Mexico. Pair married 7 Feb 1694, with witnesses Captain Roque Madrid and Juana López.

~ Roots Ltd., Diligencias Matrimoniales, p. 1206