Francisco Pacheco

From the English Wikipedia page on the Baca Family of New Mexico:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baca_family_of_New_Mexico

The progenitors of the Baca family of New Mexico were Cristóbal Baca (Vaca) and his wife Ana Ortiz. Cristóbal was a military captain who arrived in 1600 with his family in order to help reinforce the colony. At the time, he had three grown daughters and a small son. The Bacas had another son while living in New Mexico.[1]

Cristóbal, the son of Juan de Vaca, was born in Mexico City c. 1567. His wife, also from that city, was the daughter of Francisco Pacheco.

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The Ortiz/Pacheco line

Some researchers have discovered an erroneous link between Crístobal Baca’s wife Ana Ortíz and Cristopher Columbus, among others. As noted previously, Ana Ortíz was the daughter of one Francisco Pacheco. At least three separate articles published in genealogical journals have identified this man as Francisco Pacheco de Cordóva.[8] Not only have researchers found that Pacheco de Córdova had an impressive lineage, but so did his wife Juana de la Cueva y Toledo Colón.

Ana Ortíz has also been shown to related to the famed explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and Francisco Enriques, the Duke of Alburquerque.[9] The problem with this finding is that Francisco Pacheco de Córdova, and assumedly his wife, would have been too young to have been the parents of Ana Ortíz. Pacheco was born in 1573. Ana Ortíz’s daughter Isabel de Bohórquez was born c. 1586. Therefore, Pacheco would have been only 13 years older than the woman who would supposedly have been his granddaughter.[10]

Footnotes:

• 8. ^ Beerman, “The Ancestors of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza be Vaca”; Jaskolski, Ernie, “The Francisco Vasquez Coronado Connection to New Mexico Descendants” in The New Mexico Genealogist, September 1995: Vol. XXXIV, No. 3; and, Sanchez, Ernest J., “Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families: The Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus), Francisco Vásquez Coronado, and Francisco Enriques (Duque de Alburquerque) Connection to Doña Ana María Ortiz” in Herencia, January 1999: Vol. 7, issue 1
• 9. ^ Sanchez, “Beyond Origins: Crístobal Colón, et al.”
• 10. ^ Esquibel, Jose Antonio, “The Baca-Ortiz Family and Don Francisco Pacheco de Córdoba y Bocanegra: Otra Vez” in Beyond Origins of New Mexico Families(dead link)