Diego de Montemayor, Governor of Nuevo Reino de León

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Somonte, Mariano G. Don Diego de Montemayor. [published by the author in a 1st edition of 500 at Talleres de EDIMEX, Mexico City, Mexico, 28 June 1971, 132 pages] Prologue by Israel Cavazos Garza ...

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Don Diego de Montemayor fue un militar y gobernante español, Alcalde de Saltillo, Tesorero Real, Escribano Real,Gobernador del Nuevo Reino de León y Fundador de la ciudad de Monterrey.

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DIEGO DE MONTEMAYOR

Sobre la vida de Diego de Montemayor antes de la conquista se sabe en realidad muy poco. Se ignora el lugar de su nacimiento así como las primeras actividades que desarrolló en la Nueva España.

Se sabe que en 1572 era vecino de las minas de Mazapil. Su segunda esposa se llamó Juana de la Cerda (o Porcallo). Hija de ambos fue Estefanía, mujer de Alberto del Canto, fundador de Saltillo, Coahuila. Su primera esposa, madre de Diego Montemayor -El Mozo-, fue doña María de Orive.

Es probable que Diego de Montemayor haya pisado por primera vez el territorio norte como integrante de la expedición del general Urdiñola, ya que su nombre aparece en los registros de los primeros pobladores de la ciudad de Saltillo.

Tampoco se tiene por seguro si llegó a lo que él mismo fundaría después como Ciudad Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey con las primeras expediciones de Alberto del Canto o con la misión de Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva.

Lo cierto es que en 1596 volvió a lo que Carvajal había nombrado Villa de San Luis y ahí fundó la ciudad de Monterrey

Se sabe que murió a avanzada edad. Algunos historiadores aseguran que murió en 1610 y otros que murió en 1612, año en que se vivió en la ciudad una de las peores inundaciones de la historia.

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Married to María Inés Rodríguez 1531,

*María Inés Rodríguez Montemayor ca 1549

Married to María Oribe,

• Diego Montemayor Oribe 1556-1612

Married to Juana Porcallo Cerda,

• Estefanía Montemayor ca 1571

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Governor Diego de MONTEMAYOR765,2557 was born about 1528 in Malaga, Spain. He was elected as Governor of Nuevo Leon on 5 April 1588 in Villa de Leon, Nuevo Leon, New Spain.2558 He died about 1610 at the age of 82 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, New Spain. Diego de Montemayor murdered his wife, Juana Porcayo de la Cerda, after discovering that she had been having carnal relations with Alberto del Canto. This was the same Alberto del Canto who later married his daughter Estefania. In 1596, Diego de Montemayor led a group of 15 families from Saltillo and settled in the area of El Cerro de la Silla. This was the third attempt by Spaniards to settle the area but this time it was successful. The site became the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Parents: Juan MONTEMAYOR and Mayor HERNANDEZ.

Spouse: Ines RODRIGUEZ. Ines RODRIGUEZ and Governor Diego de MONTEMAYOR were married about 1548 in Spain. Children were: Ines RODRIGUEZ.

Spouse: Maria de ESQUIVEL. Children were: Diego de MONTEMAYOR.

Spouse: Juana Porcayo de la CERDA. Juana Porcayo de la CERDA and Governor Diego de MONTEMAYOR were married about 1569 in Mazapil, New Spain. Children were: Estefania de MONTEMAYOR.

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Spouse: Maria de ESQUIVEL Children: Diego (el mozo) de Montemayor

Spouse: Juana Porcallo de la CERDA Children: Estanfania de MONTEMAYOR

Information below copied from Starr Connection Web site.

Act of Foundation of Monterrey 1638, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

The charter of the Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey, is dated September 20, 1596, issued by the Captain Diego de Montemayor (founder of it), and signed by the clerk Diego Díaz de Berlanga.This important document that supports its validity in the Ordinances for the founding of towns, villages and cities in the territory of Spanish rule, tells the location of these royal lands, and establishes the creation of a council to govern the new city. The transcript is from the Book Volume 1 Proceedings of City Council, as the original document is not within the Acquis. It presents the image of the document that contains a copy of the letter made original founding in 1638 by the notary Juan de Abrego. In the name of God Almighty and the glorious and blessed Mary ever Virgin, Mother of God and Our Lady. This public instrument know how many founding charter [Vieren] how I, Diego de Montemayor treasurer of the Exchequer of the New Kingdom of León, lieutenant governor and captain-general for the rebuilding of it by the king our lord, mindful of the causes and the reasons people gave for coming to this valley of Extremadura and kingdom for its population and pacification of the natives of him, try spreading the holy gospel and the kingdoms and dominions of His Majesty and his royal heritage is increased, which cause and zeal is mine and I moved to this effect and continuation of the comforts which in this valley of Extremadura, a region and put where I am with neighbors and residents who have been with me all the necessary equipment for this population and taking more development, that in him and in outline and there may be no place, anywhere and be peaceful, healthy and good climate and good air and water and many fruit trees and other fruit and nut trees have as many hills and pastures, rivers waterholes and springs and much land to work and bread to take many silver mines in the region there are three, ten and fifteen miles around, and sites for large and small livestock and many other uses, other of the many natural I'm bringing peace and obedience to His Majesty for his congregation and seat and teaching the holy Catholic faith, and so this, for being here in a good way to travel and try the port of Tampico, which is seventy leagues wagon road and the same to the city of Zacatecas and elsewhere and exit to the populations that may have been in this kingdom to the inland, where it has been forced to leave and come and go through the treatment and as such it that is, it is appropriate and as such must be the real case with real officers, to collect the assets and fifth to His Majesty and being pertenecieren them as is, head of the whole kingdom so this is by present, on behalf of the royal majesty the king Don Felipe our lord, I founded a metropolitan city with big mountains and springs called Santa Lucia, taking her by invocation of the Virgin Mother of God Our Lady, which the cathedral is his invocation of his holy and Immaculate Conception and Annunciation, to which I implore our patroness and mistress to get through the grace and love of his most blessed son, zeal and work that is intended and is to entitle and intitule City of Our Lady of Monterrey and appointed with all the right firmness and stability and in other cities metropolis, in the kingdoms of His Majesty are dates and pobladadas, with all honors and privileges and exemptions granted by his royal these new ordinances and special populations of this kingdom, I have expressed here and made so that as said is enjoy them, which I give entire city civil and criminal jurisdiction, mere mixed empire, for all causes and civil and criminal things in it and in its conclusion that befall and acaecieren and definitely try and identify and bring to a lawful sentences, keeping the laws and ordinances of His Majesty to talk about it and give it jurisdiction and end fifteen leagues eastward and westward and fifteen other north-south in the same box for the same fate and all that in the term and resettle your jurisdiction and mine as villas is subject to it in terms of appeals and the rest to be convenient according to the ordinances that on it there and give ejido one league round and boyal pasture from the city I point up what it says Santa Catarina River, brought the said river to the work of the Mole, what the main ditch and up into the mountains of Mithras, as we go towards the Mithras and the said river to the right, what strength belongs and because the Ordinances of New Towns were granted and gave His Majesty to this kingdom in the forty-third, said nominated metropolitan city, the council and the appointment of regimental officers and required states and noting that this not enough people of Spanish, for designation of the council until later, God willing there is more comfort, leaving his right to save for each that has, use its power as it is contained as such metropolitan city, so only the present to the administration of justice, council and council that has to be in this population, you appoint Alonso Barredaand Pedro de Inigo as ordinary mayors and Juan Perez de los Rios and Diego Díaz de Berlanga and Diego Maldonado, Diego de Montemayor aldermen and attorney general of this kingdom and Diego Díaz de Berlanga by clerk council, and the attorney general may have and have council vote, to which each of them and give them full power and authority on behalf of His Majesty, for this present year of ninety-six use and exercise the said office Town Council, Council, justice and regiment it and so he and the beginning of next year, the first day they nominate and elect for the following year two ordinary mayors and four aldermen and other officers necessary to the republic and those that they make the same election for another year, so on for as long as they continue the same city, with the addition that refers back, having enough comfort to be appointed council with the officers, who as such is responsible for metropolitan city grant that His Majesty for his royal ordinances grants, which the council and council of said city is or may be, I give you the real power in the name, right enough when required, with the official declaration of the They have royal treasury and any of them, voting in the council and council; Item, that it touches into the marking of the said meadow boyal not be in it to stay or to take work or livestock and that in any ordinances that are stored on this and also there as to the jurisdiction of the ordinary mayors, save what His Majesty has given in all New Spain, not more and not overdo it, but save and meets His royal Majesty commanded and they and the other officers enjoy other grants and exemptions granted to such grants and also that which shall be made of sites and other things inside the paddock that boyal and suburbs, are subject to this republic. And I, the said Lieutenant Governor and Captain-General, on behalf of our king and by virtue of the power, did and did foundation of the said town of Nuestra Senora de Monterrey and beg and plead with the majesty of our king is served to confirm, that with more encouragement his subjects are encouraged to settle and establish his royal crown under other kingdoms and cities, through the favor of God and hopes to discover and settle in faith and witness of truth, grant and founded in the valley of Extremadura, eyes of Santa Lucia, jurisdiction of the New Kingdom of Leon, in twenty days of September, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six and I signed my name with this scribe. Witnesses: Sunday Manuel, Juan Lopez, Diego de Montemayor, Miguel de Montemayor, and Mayor Alonso de Barreda. Diego de Montemayor Before me, Diego Diaz de Berlanga, clerk of council.

Transcript cited the book "Records of the City of Monterrey," Israel Cavazos Garza coordinator, R.City of Monterrey, 2nd Edition, 2004, Monterey, p. 1-4 Notes for Juana Porcallo de la CERDA AKA:Juana Porcallo (Porcayo) de la Cerda:---Relative of Count de Figueroa, later Duke of Feria

Diego de Montemayor (c. 1530 – 1610)[1] was a Spanish conquistador, explorer, officer, and the governor of Nuevo Reino de León.

Birth: 1528 - Malaga, Spain Death: 1610 Parents: Juan De Montemayor, Maria Mayor De Montemayor (born Hernandez)

Co-founder of Monterrey, Fundador de Saltillo, Governor of Nuevo Leon, Explorer, Colonist, Captain, conquistador Apr 5 1588

 Villa de Leon, Nuevo Leon, New Spain

He murdered Juana Porcallo because she was being unfaithful with the man that would marry her daughter one day.

El apellido se le debe a Diego de Montemayor, fundador del linaje norteño, cuyos datos permanecen en el Archivo General de Indias, sección de la Casa de Contratación de Sevilla (aduana internacional de España en el siglo XVI). Encontramos que Diego de Montemayor era vecino de Málaga (Andalucía) y que era hijo de Juan de Montemayor y de Mayor Hernández. En primeras nupcias estaba casado con Inés Rodríguez, y ambos pasaron a la Nueva España según registros del 7 de diciembre de 1548. Diego se casó otras dos veces, su segunda esposa fue María de Esquivel, y la tercera, Juana Porcallo y de la Cerda.

Diego fue Alcalde Mayor de Saltillo en 1580. El 5 de abril de 1588 fue nombrado Tesorero de la Real Hacienda y teniente de gobernador y de capitán general desde los ojos de Santa Lucía (Monterrey) hasta Parras y lo demás que había hasta el río Grande y hasta la Laguna. Este nombramiento lo constituyó (al menos nominalmente) en una de las primeras autoridades laguneras. Hay que recordar que en esa época surgió un conflicto de límites entre el Nuevo Reino de León y el Reino de la Nueva Vizcaya. Diego fue Alcalde Ordinario de Saltillo en 1591, y escribano de ahí mismo en 1593. En 1596 Diego de Montemayor organizó a doce familias de Saltillo para ir a fundar Monterrey, lo cual llevó a cabo. Se le reconoce como fundador de Monterrey, tras la fallida población realizada por Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva.

Estefanía de Montemayor y Porcallo, hija del tercer matrimonio de Diego, se casó con Alberto del Canto, fundador de Saltillo en 1577.

Por su parte, la familia del Canto tenía un remoto origen medieval, pues procedía de María do Canto, casada con Joao Fernandes de Souto Mayor a finales del siglo XIV y principios del XV. Los tratadistas portugueses mencionan que originalmente este apellido era do Kent y que procedía de Inglaterra. Pero lo cierto es que los Do Canto se habían establecido en Guimarães, en Portugal. Alberto del Canto era re tataranieto de María do Canto, y su tío paterno, Pedro Anes do Canto, nacido hacia 1470, era proveedor de las Reales Armadas Portuguesas. Fue tanto el prestigio de los del Canto, que el obispo de Malaca los celebró en verso. Alberto nació en la villa de Praia, en la isla Terceira, en las Azores, y era hijo de Sebastiao Martins do Canto y de María Dias Vieira, consanguínea del bienaventurado Juan Bautista Machado, mártir jesuita en Japón (1617).

Alberto del Canto y Estefanía de Montemayor tuvieron varios hijos, entre los cuales mencionamos a Miguel de Montemayor. Es de notar que los descendientes de este matrimonio pusieron en primer lugar el apellido Montemayor, en parte porque los problemas políticos entre Portugal y la España de Felipe II de finales del siglo XVI, lo ameritaba. Por otra parte, en su época tenía mayor rango político Diego de Montemayor que Alberto del Canto.

Muchos Montemayores descienden de Miguel. Y por línea femenina, sus descendientes perdieron, no la sangre, sino el apellido original, y llevan muchos otros apellidos saltillenses y regiomontanos igualmente ilustres, como Garza, de la Garza, de la Garza Falcón, González, de la Fuente, etc. Estos son apellidos muy comunes en Torreón, ciudad poblada con innumerables inmigrantes mexicanos y extranjeros.

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