Leonor Catalina de Salazar y de la Cadena

Doña Catalina Salazar y de Cadeña born 1497 at Burgos, Spain died 1534

Her grand-parents were members of the royal court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

Her father was the lieutenant governor of all of New Spain and Factor of the Royal Treasuary in Mexico.

Dona Catalina was married twice:

1. Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza
2. Governor Cristóbal de Narriahondo Pérez de Oñate

Sources

With all Arms by Carl Laurence Duaine.

Don Juan de Onate Colonizer of New Mexico by George P. Hammond.

The Last Conquistador, Juan de Onate and the settling of the far Southwest.....the author, Marc Simmons, lists her 1st husband as Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza.

Origen de los Fundadores de Texas, Nuevo Mexico, Coahuila, y Nuevo Leon, Saltillo Tomo II by Guillermo Garmendia Leal, page 66.

Glory, God, and Gold edited by Lewis Gannett.