I had originally written the following paragraph
“Dr Abraham Haim put the the piece that said our Sanchez line descended through Juan Sanchez de Calayatud (aka Isaac Golluf aka Açach Golluf el menor) and not his brother Pedro Sanchez de Calayatud. I knew that Toribios grandfather Alonso Sanchez descended from Alazar Golluf but had originally thought that the descent was though his son Pedro. Dr Haim is the highest authority on these matters so if he says that he descends from Isaac Golluf (Juan Sanchez) then I will go along with him.”
Corrections:
- After looking at these additional records, I believe that I made a mistake to defer to Dr. Abraham Haim. The additional records used to come to this conclusion are the multiple records of the lawsuits between Açach Golluf el menor (aka Juan Sanchez de Calatayud), his brothers, his ex-wife, his stepmother over the inheritance from his father, Alazar (Eleazar) Golluf. I should not have differed to Dr. Abraham Haim and other genealogists. I should have stuck to the records that I found.
Another mistake was a confusing record that left me thinking that Abraham was the youngest of the brothers and that he was the youngest brother that changed his name to Pedro Sanchez de Calatayud. That brought a lot of confusion when other records showed that Açach Golluf “el mayor”, their grandfather changed his will and replaced Açach Golluf “el menor” with Abraham Golluf because he was very upset that Açach el menor had converted to Catholicism. I mistakenly then assumed that Jehuda was the youngest because of a record that named Abraham and his younger brother Jehuda. Jehuda was younger than Abraham, but he wasn’t the youngest.
- The second correction: The youngest of the brothers that converted was not Abraham or Jehuda, it was Samuel Golluf aka Pedro Sanchez de Calayatud. This is important as the line that I primarily focus on descends from Samuel Golluf.
The source for making these corrections are the many records involving the lawsuits between the family members over Açach Golluf el menor’s, (akaJuan Sanchez de Calatayud) inheritance from his father. His dispute was with his stepmother and his ex-wife who divorced him when he converted to Catholicism. Another lawsuit was against his in-laws for attempting to kill him by poisoning him.
- The third correction to my previous post is to add some of the wives’ names.
- The fourth correction is that I also added two more generations as I go further back in the family tree .
As to the inheritance lawsuit, It was a messy dispute because the Queen was also involved as she too was owed money by Açach’s father and the Queen was unaware that she running low in cash and that Açach’s father Alazar (Eleazar) Golluf had borrowed against some of her possessions in order to provide the Queen with the expensive lifestyle she had become accustomed to. And for a long time it looked as Juan Sanchez (Açach Golluff El menor) was not going to receive his inheritance that he had been promised both by his father and by the King and Queen. The bulk of the estate was going to go to his stepmother and his ex-wife who are sisters. What made this even more complicated was that the judge assigned to the legal case by the queen was the father of his stepmother and his wife. This obvious bias against him seemed like it would doom his case. But in the end a document was found that proved that his father had clearly changed his will so that Açach El menor would inherit the bulk of his estate and not Açach’s stepmother.
The house of David, the same house as Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.
Two additional generation is added as the father of Solomon is Jehuda Golluf and his grandfather Jucé Golluf.
1.) Jucé Golluf
2.) ↑ Jehudá Golluf and his second wife, Mira They have two sons, Jucé Golluf and Solomon Golluf.
3). ↑ Solomon Golluf (caballero, resident of Barcelona, adelantado de la aljama de Zaragoza entre 1328 y 1330) (b. abt 1295). He had at least two marriages. From his first marriage he had a son named Abraham. From his second marriage to Astruga, daughter of Samuel Abnarrabí y Cetí, he had Samuel.
4). ↑ Samuel Golluf (resident of Avignon) married to Bonastruga (Bona Astruga) daughter of Nahir Suxen.
Siblings : Azach (Açaqui) Golluf & Rebeca Golluf (her fame: beauty and can sing)
5). ↑ “Azach (Açaqui) Golluf el mayor” d. 9 de abril de 1391 and his wife Oro Xaprut (daughter of Azach (Ishaq) (Açach Xaprut)(Shaprut). He passed away one day after changing his will. Azach Xaprut, Oro’s father is the son of Yosef Xaprut, (one source claims that Joseph Amali is Oro's father and that her name is Oro Amali but I have a evidence that explains why I believe this is a mistake. Oro Xaprut should not be confused with other members of the family named Oro or Orosol. Açach Golluf and Oro Xaprut have multiple residences located in Avignon, France, and in Barcelona, and Zaragosa.
6.) ↑Alazar (Alatzar, Eleazar) Golluf Iben David miembro de una ilustre y antigua familia de Zaragoza (d. 1389). Alazar had multiple wives. The wife that is mother to his four sons Açach El menor (aka Juan Sanchez de Calatayud), Abraham, Jehuda, and Samuel (aka Pedro Sanchez) is named Joheví de Quatorze, daughter of Açach Quatorze de Tereul. Alazar’s last wife, Mira Almali, daughter of Jusé Almali
Alazar Golluf was a cousin to Todric Ha Levi family, all descendants of the house of David
Alazar Golluf, miembro de una ilustre y antigua familia de Zaragoza, fue tesorero del rey don Juan I de Aragón y de su esposa Violante. Su alta posición le permitió ocuparse de los asuntos de la población judía incluso fuera de los límites de la aljama donde habitaba. De la casa de David. I don't know if the descent from david is through a paternal or maternal line.
Alazar Golluf is Treasurer of the Queen Violante of Aragon and the most prominent Jewish courtier at the time in Aragon. Alazar Golluf had a sister named Astruga Golluf who married twice, first to Jento Ymano who left her a young widow after giving her a son by the name Manuel, in her second marriage she married into the prominent Alazar family. Alazar had another sister, Dueña Alazar that also married into this family, her husband was named Salomon Alazar.
[Tom Tov ben Hannah (Abenhanya), a scribe of the Jewish community of Montalban wrote a description of Alazar Golluf's death as a tragedy for all Aragonese Jews. In his letter he wonders who will defend the Jews of Aragon:
"Woe to us! Who can stand before the sons of kings;
To cast light before the face of he who walked in darkness;
And to open, in straits, blind eyes?;
Who can express [his] mighty acts;
With enemies at the gate, a voice on high?
For this our heart is faint,
Our dance has turned into mourning;
We have brought down as a ghost out of the ground;
Our voice is lower than low, a still voice;
Who can stand up to repair the breach;
And to complete that which is wanting without number,
Among the wretched Jews;
Who have lost their value, high of stature hewn down."]
6)↑ Samuel Golluf who changed his name to “Pedro Sanchez de Calayatud “ when he converted to Catholicism (aka Pedro Sanchez I) (title:Caballero), married to Alfonsina Baron (o Varon)
His title of Caballero brought many advantages to his grandsons. His title allows his grandsons to "gosar de todos los privilegios y inmunidades que descendientes de caballeros y hidalgos acostumbran gosar los caballeros y hidalgos en el presente reino de Aragon".{5}
Caballero Pero (Pedro) Sanchez I and Alfonsina Baron are the parents of:
7) ↑ Pedro (Pero) Sanchez (II) married to Blanquina Palau
This a family of "comerciante ennoblecidos por el servicio a la Monarquia de Aragon.
Pedro Sanchez and Blanquina Palau have many children. Among the many children are Gabriel Sanchez, Francisco Sanchez, Guillen Sanchez, Luis Sanchez, Francisca Sanchez Caverllaria, Alfonso Sanchez (he is our ancestor), and others. There are many children and they have interesting stories that are recorded in history that I will add later). Gabriel and Alonso are friends of Christopher Colombus. They knew each other because of Christopher Colombus's father, Domenico Colonne who was also a merchant that exported throughout the same area that Alfonso was involved in business. A nephew of Alfonso Sanchez is Rodrigo Sanchez de Soegovia who, among others, convinced Christopher Colombus that it was financially prudent to make slaves of the Indians in order to sell them. Rodrigo was on the first trip as veedor (inspector). Juan de San Pedro Sanchez (a brother or nephew, depending on the source) was also involved and convicted of the conspiracy to assassinate Pedro Abreus. {5}{6}{7}
8) ↑ Alfonso Sanchez (II) Palau. Aka (Alonso Sanchis) (b.1481) (d.3/June/1522) married to Leonor Dalmau
"Uno de los mayores operadores mercantiles" from Greece through all of the Mediterranean to Portugal and north to Ireland, England, France and north of France.
There are two main stories for Alfonso but he is also in many business records. The first, and false, allegation is that he is involved, with family members in the conspiracy to assassinate the inquisitor, and later saint, Pedro of Abreus. But it wasn't him, it was his relative with the same name who was a jurist. The second story is also important, and it is about how he is involved in a totally illegal sale of grains, while the people are hungary in Aragon, and to top it off he mixes old rotting grain to the good grain to make even more money. In both stories King Ferdinand protects him though there is obvious guilt in the second scandal and suspicion in the first.
They only had a son and a daughter. The son is:
9) ↑ Miguel Sanchez Dalmau (d.1538) married to Isabel Hernandez de Hijar y Ramirez de Arellano.
They had at least two sons. The eldest, Alfonso Sanchez (III) Hernandez was named after his paternal grandfather and took over his business and position as lugarteniente tesorero. Toribio was a younger son. Toribio may have come over with another sibling that went to what is now New Mexico but this is only a theory with a high probability due to all the pieces of the puzzle that have so far been collected.
10) ↑ Toribio Hernandez de Arellano
It is important to remember that it is only a possibility, and not a probability, that The two Toribio Hernandez, the son of Miguel Sanchez Dalmau and Isabel Hernandez de Hijar and the Toribio Hernandez that is married to Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza are the same person, I have not found the definitive proof.
But I did have success in identifying the Diego Hurtado de Mendoza that was written that he is the father of Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza married to Toribio. There are still two issues with confirming the father of Isabel. The first issue is that I don’t have that document that states Diego Hurtado de Mendoza is her father I would like to get that document in my hands, but no one has informed me where that document is, only that it exists. The second issue is the date that Diego Hurtado de Mendoza comes over to Nueva Galicia from Spain. It is documented when he comes over under the employ of the bishop. But it seems that he had already been in Nueva Galicia before but I can’t find any information on the previous crossing. He would of have had to come over previously in order to have fathered Isabel Mendoza in Nueva Galicia as Isabel Mendoza marries Toribio Hernandez de Arellano not long after Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s voyage over with the bishop. Diego’s previous trip from Spain would have been in the employ of the viceroy Mendoza.
The ancestry of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the stated father of Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza, takes an entire chapter in my book, Mygenes2000
Source: My book “MyGenes2000”
Rick A. Ricci