Cristóbal de Mayorga
pre-1530:
Garmendia Leal, Fundadores [p.102: soldados de Nuño de Guzmán, 1529, listed among the jinetes y peones]
1530-1540:
AGI, Justicia, 258, pieza 1, “Relación de los salarios” [fol. 800r; fol. 823v:a Cristóval de mayorga...Lx pesos]
1540-1550:
1540, Feb: Muster in Flint & Flint, Documents, Document 12 [2 horses, elk hide jacket, native arms]
González-Leal, Relación Secreta [p. 81-82: Despues de sacado este memorial han dad las personas siguientes: Cristóbal de Mayorga];
AGI, Justicia, 258, pieza 1, “Relación de los salarios” [a Cristóbal de mayorga...May 23, 1545...cL pesos];
AGI, México, 1064, L.1\1, “Informes” [fol.280v] = Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobiográfico, II:12602 [to México, 1529] [with Guzmán, 1530] = Icaza, Diccionario, II:1377 [encomendero at Espiritu Santo; low income stimulated joining expedition] [still in debt, 1547] = [native of Benavente; son of Juan de Mayorga and Beatriz Coco; is hijodalgo; his father and grandfather served the crown, especially in Pamplona at their own cost; 8 years in these places; pacification of Los Valles; with Guzmán in Nueva Galicia until Compostela was settled; in the reconnaissance of the coast of the Mar del Sur and the poblador of the Villa of Espirtu Santo in Chiametla, where he was given encomienda; went to Cíbola where he spent a large sum of gold pesos; asks for a grant as a conquistador and poblador];
AGI, Justicia, 260, Pieza 4 [Charges against Cristóbal de Benavente, fiscal, 1546 and 1547, fol.146r: Witness, native of the Villa de Benavente in Castilla, 35 years old, is related to the fiscal in the 3rd degree (signature scanned)];
1550-1560:
AGI, Justicia, 1021, N.2, Pieza 2, “Relación sacada de la probanza, 1551” [Cristóbal de Mayorga: some pueblos gave clothing willingly, but it was taken from others; they were told it was only out of necessity; tells of Indians being executed as traitors after the first seige] [he went to get clothing] [Cárdenas with 40 or 50 horsemen to another pueblo 5 leagues distant from the general's army] and pieza 6 probanza del fiscal Villalobos [México, January 10, 1547] [Cristóbal de Mayorga, natural de Benavente, more than 25 years old] [Mayorga was in the group that went with López de Cárdenas to collect clothing, one piece per household] [una noche alzaron todos los pueblos comarcanos] [went with López de Cárdenas to verify the theft and killing of horses] [went with López to another pueblo 5 leagues from where the general was to deliver the requerimiento (Mayorga must have been in López’s company)] [could sign his name (no signature on copy)];
Catálogo, Resumen e Índices [Mexico 12 May 1559, Antonio de Villafranca, confitero, vecino, otorga poder general a Juan Bote de Hinojosa, procurador de causas, estante. Firmó. Testigos: Cristóbal de Mayorga, Rodrigo Becerro, escribano de Su Majestad, y Francisco de Vargas, vecinos]
1560-1570:
AGI, Patronato, 205, R.1 \ 2 [1566 witness for Luis Cortés; Elena de Bonilla, viuda muger of Cristóbal de Mayorga, who was a vecino of Mexico City]
?AGI, Contaduría, 667A [diezmos de plata, 1562: a Fulano de Mayorga diezmo 18 marcos de plata]
Other Info: AGI, México, 204, N.33 [Juan Paniagua: witness for Pedro de Benavides, Feb. 14, 1551, Mexico City, 38 years old, estante in Mexico City, went on Expedition, knew a relative of Pedro called something or other Mayorga (there is a town called Mayorga)]
Relatives?: ?AGI, Justicia, 1156, N.1, R.2 [1565, pleito fiscal, Francisco de Mayorga]; ?Socolow, Women of Colonial Latin America [p.110, a generous patron of the Archicofradía del Santísimo Sacramento of Mexico City between 1618-1633 was Elvira de Mayorga]; A Diego de Mayorga is secretary for the inquisiciónin 1530s];
?AHJO, Teposcolula, Criminal, 1, exp.55, 1576 [Case against Alonso de Mayorga, tesorero, Questlavaca]