Arturo, has Miguel Caldera’s mother ever been named? I’ve never seen anything except his fathers name. Is it known where Miguel Caldera was born? I have 3 Caldera grandmothers in my direct lines. Any idea why the Caldera’s, including my lines all claimed Espanol when they were Mestizo’s from very early on. When I was in El Durazno, district of Jerez it seemed half the town was Caldera, green eyes, blue eyes, freckled and also very dark skinned with brown eyes.
Linda in Everett
arturoramos wrote:
Emilie:
Composed surnames were quite common in the early centuries of Mexican colonial history… I know in my area there were the Carlos de Godoy, the Valdes y Llanos, the Ortiz de San Pedro, Lopes de Talamantes, etc. Over time people began shortening the names so some ended up simply Carlos, others Godoy, others Valdes, etc.
I read somewhere that at the time of independence there was a lot of Hispanophobia in Mexico and many gachupines were expelled or killed. Many of the families with composed names like these dropped part of their name at the time because they felt it linked them to strongly to Spain and kept more simple “Mexican” sounding names.
I don’t know how true this is since I have seen the name dropping occurring way before independece. Maybe the priests just didn’t want to waste ink! 🙂
I would say there is a decent chance that the Esparza you are writing about might be a descendant of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. It is also important to note that indigenous people and africans had the habit of taking the surnames of their masters or encomenderos, etc. so some of the very common names are due to the original Spanish ancestor having been ery wealthy and having many people name themselves after him.
I also know that around Jerez a lot of the local indigenous people took the name Caldera (including a couple of Guachichil chiefs) in honor of Miguel Caldera because they revered him so much for ringing peace to the region and because he himself was a Guachichil mestizo serving in the Spanish army which they must have been somewhat proud of in a twisted kind of way.
Arturo, has Miguel Caldera’s mother ever been named? I’ve never seen anything except his fathers name. Is it known where Miguel Caldera was born? I have 3 Caldera grandmothers in my direct lines. Any idea why the Caldera’s, including my lines all claimed Espanol when they were Mestizo’s from very early on. When I was in El Durazno, district of Jerez it seemed half the town was Caldera, green eyes, blue eyes, freckled and also very dark skinned with brown eyes.
Linda in Everett
arturoramos wrote:
Emilie:
Composed surnames were quite common in the early centuries of Mexican colonial history… I know in my area there were the Carlos de Godoy, the Valdes y Llanos, the Ortiz de San Pedro, Lopes de Talamantes, etc. Over time people began shortening the names so some ended up simply Carlos, others Godoy, others Valdes, etc.
I read somewhere that at the time of independence there was a lot of Hispanophobia in Mexico and many gachupines were expelled or killed. Many of the families with composed names like these dropped part of their name at the time because they felt it linked them to strongly to Spain and kept more simple “Mexican” sounding names.
I don’t know how true this is since I have seen the name dropping occurring way before independece. Maybe the priests just didn’t want to waste ink! 🙂
I would say there is a decent chance that the Esparza you are writing about might be a descendant of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. It is also important to note that indigenous people and africans had the habit of taking the surnames of their masters or encomenderos, etc. so some of the very common names are due to the original Spanish ancestor having been ery wealthy and having many people name themselves after him.
I also know that around Jerez a lot of the local indigenous people took the name Caldera (including a couple of Guachichil chiefs) in honor of Miguel Caldera because they revered him so much for ringing peace to the region and because he himself was a Guachichil mestizo serving in the Spanish army which they must have been somewhat proud of in a twisted kind of way.
Emilie,
As you probably know, Lope Ruiz de Esparza was the owner of the Hda. de Morcenique following the foundation of the city of Aguascalientes in 1575. Lope arrived in Mexico in 1593 from Pamplona, Navarra. The Hda. de Santiago was owned by Gerónimo de Orosco. The fact that Francisco Durón and María Cecilia de Esparza had their children in Morcenique is a pretty good indicative that María Cecilia was a direct descendant of Lope Ruiz de Esparza.
The compounded surname was brought to Mexico by Lope Ruiz de Esparza, one of the early settlers of Aguascalientes. It was common practice in those days to drop the first part of a compounded name to shorten it, i.e. many early records refer to those with the compound surname Ruiz de Esparza simply as “Esparza”. Not even Lope’s children were spared from this practice. For example, the baptismal record of Pedro Fernández de Vaulus in 1634 reads “fueron padrinos Salvador de Esparsa and María de Vielma”. Salvador Ruiz de Esparza, born in Aguascalientes in 1595, was the oldest son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. That was more than 200 years before the independence of Mexico.
I have not come across the marriage record for Miguel de Esparza and Efigenia de Cordova, but if you have that information let me know. I can probably take you back a couple of generations before Lope crossed the Atlantic from Navarra. Below is some information quoted from the book “NOCHISTLAN, ZACATECAS, Su Parroquia, Los Durán y otras familias antiguas. Estudio Historico-Genealógico” written by Ing. Jesús Durán Rodríguez. [HB, 349 pp, 1991 Monterrey, NL Mexico, No ISBN number] The prologue by Mariano González Leal, pp xv reads as follows:
“En una Ejecutoria de Nobleza del siglo XVI, constante de ciento sesenta paginas en vitela miniada con dos escudos de armas, consta que el genearca novohispano de este linaje fue don Lope Ruiz de Esparza, originario de Pamplona, quien el 27 de Abril de 1595 compareció ante el Alcalde Ordinario de la ciudad de Méjico Rafael de Trejo Carbajal para acreditar su ascendencia: Era hijo de Lope Ruiz de Esparza y de doña Ana Diez de Eguinoa, ambos de Pamplona: el había litigado su hidalguía en Pamplona haciendo constar su señorío sobre los palacios de Esparza y Jáuregui, pleito vencido por sentencia de 23 de Noviembre de 1535. Se dejo constancia de que el segundo Lope, de veintiséis años de edad en 1595, era de estatura mediana, trapado, blanco de rostro, algo rojo de barba y cabello; los ojos tienen algún tanto metidos; sobre la ceja derecha tiene una cicatriz que casi llega hasta el cabo de la ceja y otra cicatriz mas grande que comienza al cabo de la oreja izquierda, por la parte de dentro, hasta la mitad del cuello; es robusto de todos miembros… Obra en el legajo una Ejecutoria de hidalguía dada por el Emperador don Carlos y doña Juana su madre a esta clase y linaje. Estos Ruiz de Esparza, que luego se establecen en Aguascalientes y de allí se ramifican a Teocaltiche, Nochistlán, Tepatitlán, Arandas y otras zonas alteñas, enlazaron con los Romo de Vivar, Gabay, Tiscareño, Escoto-Tovar y otras viejas cepas de la región hasta extenderse de modo tal que no hay familia alteña que no proceda, por una u otra línea de ellos.”
Bill Figueroa
Emilie,
As you probably know, Lope Ruiz de Esparza was the owner of the Hda. de Morcenique following the foundation of the city of Aguascalientes in 1575. Lope arrived in Mexico in 1593 from Pamplona, Navarra. The Hda. de Santiago was owned by Gerónimo de Orosco. The fact that Francisco Durón and María Cecilia de Esparza had their children in Morcenique is a pretty good indicative that María Cecilia was a direct descendant of Lope Ruiz de Esparza.
The compounded surname was brought to Mexico by Lope Ruiz de Esparza, one of the early settlers of Aguascalientes. It was common practice in those days to drop the first part of a compounded name to shorten it, i.e. many early records refer to those with the compound surname Ruiz de Esparza simply as “Esparza”. Not even Lope’s children were spared from this practice. For example, the baptismal record of Pedro Fernández de Vaulus in 1634 reads “fueron padrinos Salvador de Esparsa and María de Vielma”. Salvador Ruiz de Esparza, born in Aguascalientes in 1595, was the oldest son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. That was more than 200 years before the independence of Mexico.
I have not come across the marriage record for Miguel de Esparza and Efigenia de Cordova, but if you have that information let me know. I can probably take you back a couple of generations before Lope crossed the Atlantic from Navarra. Below is some information quoted from the book “NOCHISTLAN, ZACATECAS, Su Parroquia, Los Durán y otras familias antiguas. Estudio Historico-Genealógico” written by Ing. Jesús Durán Rodríguez. [HB, 349 pp, 1991 Monterrey, NL Mexico, No ISBN number] The prologue by Mariano González Leal, pp xv reads as follows:
“En una Ejecutoria de Nobleza del siglo XVI, constante de ciento sesenta paginas en vitela miniada con dos escudos de armas, consta que el genearca novohispano de este linaje fue don Lope Ruiz de Esparza, originario de Pamplona, quien el 27 de Abril de 1595 compareció ante el Alcalde Ordinario de la ciudad de Méjico Rafael de Trejo Carbajal para acreditar su ascendencia: Era hijo de Lope Ruiz de Esparza y de doña Ana Diez de Eguinoa, ambos de Pamplona: el había litigado su hidalguía en Pamplona haciendo constar su señorío sobre los palacios de Esparza y Jáuregui, pleito vencido por sentencia de 23 de Noviembre de 1535. Se dejo constancia de que el segundo Lope, de veintiséis años de edad en 1595, era de estatura mediana, trapado, blanco de rostro, algo rojo de barba y cabello; los ojos tienen algún tanto metidos; sobre la ceja derecha tiene una cicatriz que casi llega hasta el cabo de la ceja y otra cicatriz mas grande que comienza al cabo de la oreja izquierda, por la parte de dentro, hasta la mitad del cuello; es robusto de todos miembros… Obra en el legajo una Ejecutoria de hidalguía dada por el Emperador don Carlos y doña Juana su madre a esta clase y linaje. Estos Ruiz de Esparza, que luego se establecen en Aguascalientes y de allí se ramifican a Teocaltiche, Nochistlán, Tepatitlán, Arandas y otras zonas alteñas, enlazaron con los Romo de Vivar, Gabay, Tiscareño, Escoto-Tovar y otras viejas cepas de la región hasta extenderse de modo tal que no hay familia alteña que no proceda, por una u otra línea de ellos.”
Bill Figueroa
Bill,
Thanks for your response and information on the Esparza name. No, I don’t have any information any farther back than the marriage record of Francisco Duron and Maria Cecilia de Esparza that gives her parents’ names as Miguel de Esparza and Efigenia de Cordova. That is a brick wall for me. I was hoping that perhaps you or Arturo could trace Miguel back farther. Also, as Arturo stated, perhaps Miguel was an indigenous person who only took the name of Esparza, even though the marriage record for Cecilia and Francisco lists them as espanoles. Some of their children are listed as mestizos, so that makes me wonder. So, by what is said in the Nochistlan book, the Esparzas got their name from the place they lived in in Spain, the “palacio de Esparza”? I wonder if Efigenia’s ancestors were from Cordova in Spain.
Emilie
—– Original Message —–
From: Bill Figueroa
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Ruiz de Esparza in Aguascalientes
Emilie,
As you probably know, Lope Ruiz de Esparza was the owner of the Hda. de Morcenique following the foundation of the city of Aguascalientes in 1575. Lope arrived in Mexico in 1593 from Pamplona, Navarra. The Hda. de Santiago was owned by Gerónimo de Orosco. The fact that Francisco Durón and María Cecilia de Esparza had their children in Morcenique is a pretty good indicative that María Cecilia was a direct descendant of Lope Ruiz de Esparza.
The compounded surname was brought to Mexico by Lope Ruiz de Esparza, one of the early settlers of Aguascalientes. It was common practice in those days to drop the first part of a compounded name to shorten it, i.e. many early records refer to those with the compound surname Ruiz de Esparza simply as “Esparza”. Not even Lope’s children were spared from this practice. For example, the baptismal record of Pedro Fernández de Vaulus in 1634 reads “fueron padrinos Salvador de Esparsa and María de Vielma”. Salvador Ruiz de Esparza, born in Aguascalientes in 1595, was the oldest son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. That was more than 200 years before the independence of Mexico.
I have not come across the marriage record for Miguel de Esparza and Efigenia de Cordova, but if you have that information let me know. I can probably take you back a couple of generations before Lope crossed the Atlantic from Navarra. Below is some information quoted from the book “NOCHISTLAN, ZACATECAS, Su Parroquia, Los Durán y otras familias antiguas. Estudio Historico-Genealógico” written by Ing. Jesús Durán Rodríguez. [HB, 349 pp, 1991 Monterrey, NL Mexico, No ISBN number] The prologue by Mariano González Leal, pp xv reads as follows:
“En una Ejecutoria de Nobleza del siglo XVI, constante de ciento sesenta paginas en vitela miniada con dos escudos de armas, consta que el genearca novohispano de este linaje fue don Lope Ruiz de Esparza, originario de Pamplona, quien el 27 de Abril de 1595 compareció ante el Alcalde Ordinario de la ciudad de Méjico Rafael de Trejo Carbajal para acreditar su ascendencia: Era hijo de Lope Ruiz de Esparza y de doña Ana Diez de Eguinoa, ambos de Pamplona: el había litigado su hidalguía en Pamplona haciendo constar su señorío sobre los palacios de Esparza y Jáuregui, pleito vencido por sentencia de 23 de Noviembre de 1535. Se dejo constancia de que el segundo Lope, de veintiséis años de edad en 1595, era de estatura mediana, trapado, blanco de rostro, algo rojo de barba y cabello; los ojos tienen algún tanto metidos; sobre la ceja derecha tiene una cicatriz que casi llega hasta el cabo de la ceja y otra cicatriz mas grande que comienza al cabo de la oreja izquierda, por la parte de dentro, hasta la mitad del cuello; es robusto de todos miembros… Obra en el legajo una Ejecutoria de hidalguía dada por el Emperador don Carlos y doña Juana su madre a esta clase y linaje. Estos Ruiz de Esparza, que luego se establecen en Aguascalientes y de allí se ramifican a Teocaltiche, Nochistlán, Tepatitlán, Arandas y otras zonas alteñas, enlazaron con los Romo de Vivar, Gabay, Tiscareño, Escoto-Tovar y otras viejas cepas de la región hasta extenderse de modo tal que no hay familia alteña que no proceda, por una u otra línea de ellos.”
Bill Figueroa
Bill,
Thanks for your response and information on the Esparza name. No, I don’t have any information any farther back than the marriage record of Francisco Duron and Maria Cecilia de Esparza that gives her parents’ names as Miguel de Esparza and Efigenia de Cordova. That is a brick wall for me. I was hoping that perhaps you or Arturo could trace Miguel back farther. Also, as Arturo stated, perhaps Miguel was an indigenous person who only took the name of Esparza, even though the marriage record for Cecilia and Francisco lists them as espanoles. Some of their children are listed as mestizos, so that makes me wonder. So, by what is said in the Nochistlan book, the Esparzas got their name from the place they lived in in Spain, the “palacio de Esparza”? I wonder if Efigenia’s ancestors were from Cordova in Spain.
Emilie
—– Original Message —–
From: Bill Figueroa
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Ruiz de Esparza in Aguascalientes
Emilie,
As you probably know, Lope Ruiz de Esparza was the owner of the Hda. de Morcenique following the foundation of the city of Aguascalientes in 1575. Lope arrived in Mexico in 1593 from Pamplona, Navarra. The Hda. de Santiago was owned by Gerónimo de Orosco. The fact that Francisco Durón and María Cecilia de Esparza had their children in Morcenique is a pretty good indicative that María Cecilia was a direct descendant of Lope Ruiz de Esparza.
The compounded surname was brought to Mexico by Lope Ruiz de Esparza, one of the early settlers of Aguascalientes. It was common practice in those days to drop the first part of a compounded name to shorten it, i.e. many early records refer to those with the compound surname Ruiz de Esparza simply as “Esparza”. Not even Lope’s children were spared from this practice. For example, the baptismal record of Pedro Fernández de Vaulus in 1634 reads “fueron padrinos Salvador de Esparsa and María de Vielma”. Salvador Ruiz de Esparza, born in Aguascalientes in 1595, was the oldest son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. That was more than 200 years before the independence of Mexico.
I have not come across the marriage record for Miguel de Esparza and Efigenia de Cordova, but if you have that information let me know. I can probably take you back a couple of generations before Lope crossed the Atlantic from Navarra. Below is some information quoted from the book “NOCHISTLAN, ZACATECAS, Su Parroquia, Los Durán y otras familias antiguas. Estudio Historico-Genealógico” written by Ing. Jesús Durán Rodríguez. [HB, 349 pp, 1991 Monterrey, NL Mexico, No ISBN number] The prologue by Mariano González Leal, pp xv reads as follows:
“En una Ejecutoria de Nobleza del siglo XVI, constante de ciento sesenta paginas en vitela miniada con dos escudos de armas, consta que el genearca novohispano de este linaje fue don Lope Ruiz de Esparza, originario de Pamplona, quien el 27 de Abril de 1595 compareció ante el Alcalde Ordinario de la ciudad de Méjico Rafael de Trejo Carbajal para acreditar su ascendencia: Era hijo de Lope Ruiz de Esparza y de doña Ana Diez de Eguinoa, ambos de Pamplona: el había litigado su hidalguía en Pamplona haciendo constar su señorío sobre los palacios de Esparza y Jáuregui, pleito vencido por sentencia de 23 de Noviembre de 1535. Se dejo constancia de que el segundo Lope, de veintiséis años de edad en 1595, era de estatura mediana, trapado, blanco de rostro, algo rojo de barba y cabello; los ojos tienen algún tanto metidos; sobre la ceja derecha tiene una cicatriz que casi llega hasta el cabo de la ceja y otra cicatriz mas grande que comienza al cabo de la oreja izquierda, por la parte de dentro, hasta la mitad del cuello; es robusto de todos miembros… Obra en el legajo una Ejecutoria de hidalguía dada por el Emperador don Carlos y doña Juana su madre a esta clase y linaje. Estos Ruiz de Esparza, que luego se establecen en Aguascalientes y de allí se ramifican a Teocaltiche, Nochistlán, Tepatitlán, Arandas y otras zonas alteñas, enlazaron con los Romo de Vivar, Gabay, Tiscareño, Escoto-Tovar y otras viejas cepas de la región hasta extenderse de modo tal que no hay familia alteña que no proceda, por una u otra línea de ellos.”
Bill Figueroa
So many of us have this same Ruiz de Esparza line; has anyone done research
as to the “Vielma” family(s) from this early time frame? I have wondered if
references to “Biedma”, “Viezma”,
“Bedmar” etc. are the same or misspellings/mis-transcriptions of this name
or totally different families.
>From: “Bill Figueroa”
>Reply-To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Ruiz de Esparza in Aguascalientes
>Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:11 -0600
>
>Emilie,
>
>As you probably know, Lope Ruiz de Esparza was the owner of the Hda. de
>Morcenique following the foundation of the city of Aguascalientes in 1575.
>Lope arrived in Mexico in 1593 from Pamplona, Navarra. The Hda. de
>Santiago was owned by Gerónimo de Orosco. The fact that Francisco Durón
>and María Cecilia de Esparza had their children in Morcenique is a pretty
>good indicative that María Cecilia was a direct descendant of Lope Ruiz de
>Esparza.
>
>The compounded surname was brought to Mexico by Lope Ruiz de Esparza, one
>of the early settlers of Aguascalientes. It was common practice in those
>days to drop the first part of a compounded name to shorten it, i.e. many
>early records refer to those with the compound surname Ruiz de Esparza
>simply as “Esparza”. Not even Lope’s children were spared from this
>practice. For example, the baptismal record of Pedro Fernández de Vaulus
>in 1634 reads “fueron padrinos Salvador de Esparsa and María de Vielma”.
>Salvador Ruiz de Esparza, born in Aguascalientes in 1595, was the oldest
>son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. That was more than 200 years before the
>independence of Mexico.
>
>I have not come across the marriage record for Miguel de Esparza and
>Efigenia de Cordova, but if you have that information let me know. I can
>probably take you back a couple of generations before Lope crossed the
>Atlantic from Navarra. Below is some information quoted from the book
>”NOCHISTLAN, ZACATECAS, Su Parroquia, Los Durán y otras familias antiguas.
>Estudio Historico-Genealógico” written by Ing. Jesús Durán Rodríguez. [HB,
>349 pp, 1991 Monterrey, NL Mexico, No ISBN number] The prologue by
>Mariano González Leal, pp xv reads as follows:
>
> “En una Ejecutoria de Nobleza del siglo XVI, constante de ciento sesenta
>paginas en vitela miniada con dos escudos de armas, consta que el genearca
>novohispano de este linaje fue don Lope Ruiz de Esparza, originario de
>Pamplona, quien el 27 de Abril de 1595 compareció ante el Alcalde Ordinario
>de la ciudad de Méjico Rafael de Trejo Carbajal para acreditar su
>ascendencia: Era hijo de Lope Ruiz de Esparza y de doña Ana Diez de
>Eguinoa, ambos de Pamplona: el había litigado su hidalguía en Pamplona
>haciendo constar su señorío sobre los palacios de Esparza y Jáuregui,
>pleito vencido por sentencia de 23 de Noviembre de 1535. Se dejo constancia
>de que el segundo Lope, de veintiséis años de edad en 1595, era de estatura
>mediana, trapado, blanco de rostro, algo rojo de barba y cabello; los ojos
>tienen algún tanto metidos; sobre la ceja derecha tiene una cicatriz que
>casi llega hasta el cabo de la ceja y otra cicatriz mas grande que comienza
>al cabo de la oreja izquierda, por la parte de dentro, hasta la mitad del
>cuello; es robusto de todos miembros… Obra en el legajo una Ejecutoria de
>hidalguía dada por el Emperador don Carlos y doña Juana su madre a esta
>clase y linaje. Estos Ruiz de Esparza, que luego se establecen en
>Aguascalientes y de allí se ramifican a Teocaltiche, Nochistlán,
>Tepatitlán, Arandas y otras zonas alteñas, enlazaron con los Romo de Vivar,
>Gabay, Tiscareño, Escoto-Tovar y otras viejas cepas de la región hasta
>extenderse de modo tal que no hay familia alteña que no proceda, por una u
>otra línea de ellos.”
>
>Bill Figueroa
So many of us have this same Ruiz de Esparza line; has anyone done research
as to the “Vielma” family(s) from this early time frame? I have wondered if
references to “Biedma”, “Viezma”,
“Bedmar” etc. are the same or misspellings/mis-transcriptions of this name
or totally different families.
>From: “Bill Figueroa”
>Reply-To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
>To:
>Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Ruiz de Esparza in Aguascalientes
>Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:11 -0600
>
>Emilie,
>
>As you probably know, Lope Ruiz de Esparza was the owner of the Hda. de
>Morcenique following the foundation of the city of Aguascalientes in 1575.
>Lope arrived in Mexico in 1593 from Pamplona, Navarra. The Hda. de
>Santiago was owned by Gerónimo de Orosco. The fact that Francisco Durón
>and María Cecilia de Esparza had their children in Morcenique is a pretty
>good indicative that María Cecilia was a direct descendant of Lope Ruiz de
>Esparza.
>
>The compounded surname was brought to Mexico by Lope Ruiz de Esparza, one
>of the early settlers of Aguascalientes. It was common practice in those
>days to drop the first part of a compounded name to shorten it, i.e. many
>early records refer to those with the compound surname Ruiz de Esparza
>simply as “Esparza”. Not even Lope’s children were spared from this
>practice. For example, the baptismal record of Pedro Fernández de Vaulus
>in 1634 reads “fueron padrinos Salvador de Esparsa and María de Vielma”.
>Salvador Ruiz de Esparza, born in Aguascalientes in 1595, was the oldest
>son of Lope Ruiz de Esparza. That was more than 200 years before the
>independence of Mexico.
>
>I have not come across the marriage record for Miguel de Esparza and
>Efigenia de Cordova, but if you have that information let me know. I can
>probably take you back a couple of generations before Lope crossed the
>Atlantic from Navarra. Below is some information quoted from the book
>”NOCHISTLAN, ZACATECAS, Su Parroquia, Los Durán y otras familias antiguas.
>Estudio Historico-Genealógico” written by Ing. Jesús Durán Rodríguez. [HB,
>349 pp, 1991 Monterrey, NL Mexico, No ISBN number] The prologue by
>Mariano González Leal, pp xv reads as follows:
>
> “En una Ejecutoria de Nobleza del siglo XVI, constante de ciento sesenta
>paginas en vitela miniada con dos escudos de armas, consta que el genearca
>novohispano de este linaje fue don Lope Ruiz de Esparza, originario de
>Pamplona, quien el 27 de Abril de 1595 compareció ante el Alcalde Ordinario
>de la ciudad de Méjico Rafael de Trejo Carbajal para acreditar su
>ascendencia: Era hijo de Lope Ruiz de Esparza y de doña Ana Diez de
>Eguinoa, ambos de Pamplona: el había litigado su hidalguía en Pamplona
>haciendo constar su señorío sobre los palacios de Esparza y Jáuregui,
>pleito vencido por sentencia de 23 de Noviembre de 1535. Se dejo constancia
>de que el segundo Lope, de veintiséis años de edad en 1595, era de estatura
>mediana, trapado, blanco de rostro, algo rojo de barba y cabello; los ojos
>tienen algún tanto metidos; sobre la ceja derecha tiene una cicatriz que
>casi llega hasta el cabo de la ceja y otra cicatriz mas grande que comienza
>al cabo de la oreja izquierda, por la parte de dentro, hasta la mitad del
>cuello; es robusto de todos miembros… Obra en el legajo una Ejecutoria de
>hidalguía dada por el Emperador don Carlos y doña Juana su madre a esta
>clase y linaje. Estos Ruiz de Esparza, que luego se establecen en
>Aguascalientes y de allí se ramifican a Teocaltiche, Nochistlán,
>Tepatitlán, Arandas y otras zonas alteñas, enlazaron con los Romo de Vivar,
>Gabay, Tiscareño, Escoto-Tovar y otras viejas cepas de la región hasta
>extenderse de modo tal que no hay familia alteña que no proceda, por una u
>otra línea de ellos.”
>
>Bill Figueroa
