Capitan Lope II "el Menor" Ruiz de Esparza y Eguinoa, II

The Ruiz de Esparza family is a well-known Basque family that settled in Aguascalientes at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century. The surname Esparza is said to mean one who came from Esparza (a barren place or a place where feather grass grew) in Spain. The word was derived from the Latin sparsus (spread abroad, scattered), probably referring to land that yields little. Esparza is the name of a village near Pamplona in Navarra (Navarre), España (Spain).

It is very likely that the Ruiz de Esparza family of Aguascalientes could trace its roots back to that small village. The patriarch of this family in Mexico was Lope Ruiz de Esparza, who is documented by the Catalogo de Pasajeros a Indias (Vol. III - #2.633) as having sailed from Spain to Mexico on Feb. 8, 1593. Lope, who was the son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza and Ana Días de Eguino, was a bachelor and a servant of Doñ Enrique Maleon. After arriving in Mexico, Lope made his way to Aguascalientes where, about a year later, he is believed to have married Francisca de Gabai Navarro y Moctezuma. In the following decades, the Ruiz de Esparza family intermarried extensively with other prominent Spanish families in early Aguascalientes, including Romo de Vivar, Macias Valdez, and Tiscareno de Molina.

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Lope arrived from Spain to Mexico on Feb. 8, 1593. He was a servant of Don Enrique Maleon and is considered to be a founding father of Aguascalientes, Mexico.

"LOPE RUIZ DE ESPARZA, natural de Pamplona, soltero, hijo de Lope Ruiz de Esparza y de Ana Díaz de Eguino, a Nueva España como criado de don Enrique de Maleón. "

"Lope Rruis de Esparsa, español

En veintitrés de agosto, digo en catorce de agosto, de mil seiscientos cincuenta y un años enterré en la iglesia parroquial de esta villa [Aguascalientes] a Lope Rruis de Esparsa, español, vecino de esta villa. Recibió todos los santos sacramentos y hizo memoria en que repartió los bienes que dejo para sus herederos y mando se le dijera un novenario cantado < ? > se hizo y se enterró con cruz alta. Y para que conste lo firmé. : licenciado Pedro Rincon de Ortega "

   ↑ Portal de Archivos Españoles PARES - http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas/

See also:

   PARES - http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas/ 

Código de Referencia: ES.41091.AGI/11//PASAJEROS,L.7,E.2633

   Criados 

   Díaz de Equino, Ana 

   Manleón, Enrique de 

   Nueva España (virreinato, jurisdicción antigua) 

   Pamplona (Navarra, España) 

   Ruiz de Esparza, Lope 

LDS FamilySearch.org
Mexico Deaths, 1680-1940

   name: Lope Ruis De Esparsa 

   gender: Male 

   burial date: 23 Aug 1651 

   burial place: Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico 

   race: White 

   indexing project (batch) number: B00093-4 

   system origin: Mexico-EASy 

   source film number: 299856 

Maria de la Luz Montejano Hilton, SAGRADA MITRA DE GUADALAJARA ANTIGUO OBISPADO DE LA NUEVA GALICIA, #2816, page 561.

   Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara. Rollo 168358 OAH 2644 pt. 2. Matrimonios Hojas Sueltas. 1636-1707. 2a Serie. 19 de agosto de 1700 

En http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ruiz_de_Esparza-4 a 13 de julio de 2016

It is very likely that the Ruiz de Esparza family of Aguascalientes could trace its roots back to that small village. The patriarch of this family in Mexico was Lope Ruiz de Esparza, who is documented by the Catalogo de Pasajeros a Indias (Vol. III - #2.633) as having sailed from Spain to Mexico on Feb. 8, 1593. Lope, who was the son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza and Ana Días de Eguino, was a bachelor and a servant of Doñ Enrique Maleon. After arriving in Mexico, Lope made his way to Aguascalientes where, about a year later, he is believed to have married Francisca de Gabai Navarro y Moctezuma. In the following decades, the Ruiz de Esparza family intermarried extensively with other prominent Spanish families in early Aguascalientes, including Romo de Vivar, Macias Valdez, and Tiscareno de Molina."

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Place: New Spain; Year: 1593; Page Number: 384 1,7486::1695558

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