Nicolás de Zaldívar y Oñate

His grand-father was the Conquistador of Michoacan Province, Mexico.

Source:Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angelico Chavez. Page 3.

Between 1660 and 1665 he was summoned before the Inquisition in Mexico City. Charged with murder and found guilty, he was banished from New Mexico. In exile, there is no mention of this family in New Mexico. Source:Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angelico Chavez. Page 1.

State Archives of Zacatecas … 17th century Notary Records ... [The transcriptions were done by Jaime Holcombe and provided to Nuestros Ranchos by Guillermo Tovar de Teresa.] ... http://www.nuestrosranchos.com/en/notary/view/record/814 ... Record 814: 1664-12-19 ... Espinosa, Felipe Box: 2 Book: 4 Page(s): 140 ... 164.Arrendamiento de hacienda de mina. Zacatecas, 19 de diciembre 1664. El adelantado Nicolás de Saldivar, alcalde ordinario, albacea y tenedor de bienes de su madre María de Oñate Cortés, y heredero, da en arrendamiento al capitán José de Monreal, vecino, los sitios y tierras de San Pedro, jurisdicción de Aguascalientes que arrendó su hermano Juan de Saldivar. Por 4 años a 60 pesos anuales. fj. (140)

Simmons, Marc. The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1991, page 189. ... “Her son, Don Nicolás de Zaldívar y Onate, who evidently inherited his grandfather’s treasured title of adelantado, noted in his will of 1679 that the family had fallen into great poverty.”