Thursday, May 27, 2021

Timeline for Diego de Leyva

1529 - 1533 He was with Ambrosio Alfinger in his expedition against the Pacabueyes (1531 - 1533)

1533 - 1540 Seems to have been back in Lorca, Murcia:

- Diego de Leyva requests a grant from some plains in Puerto de Mula in 1533. 
- Proceedings before Corregidor's lieutenant, the bachelor Antonio de Mieres, filed by Diego de Leiva, councilor and trustee of Lorca, against García Jiménez, a resident of Cehegín for having entered Puerto Feniche to till land and other uses. 
- Transfer of the clerk Juan de Galarça of the sentence on the landmark of the Sierra de en medio in the lawsuit between the cities of Lorca and Vera requested by Diego de Leiva, councilor and trustee. (1539-08-18) 
- Transfer of the notary Juan de Galarça of the demand filed by Diego de Leiva, councilor and attorney of Lorca, before the judge of terms Alberto Gómez, against the neighbor of Mula Martín Capel for having plowed the land of Lorca in the skirt of the black spine that descends from the Pedro Ponce mountain range 1539 
- Transfer of the notary Juan de Galarza at the request of Diego de Leiva, councilor and attorney of Lorca of the process followed against residents of Cehegín in 1539 who had invaded and carved the municipal district of Lorca. 1540-03-20 

1545 - He was in Coro when Juan de Carvajal, from Cuquidi, sent Captain Diego Ruiz de Vallejo with the provision of a Commission Judge, to notify several residents of the city, including Diego de Leiva, so that within three days they would leave the city "under pain of death and loss of property." Surely Diego de Leiva obeyed and went to Cuquidi from where he left with Carvajal in the founding group of El Tocuyo, as mentioned by the chronicler Oviedo. 

1554 - He was in Borburata, established for a short time, because in 1554 he appears in El Tocuyo in a "Swearing-in of Witnesses" presented by Doña Ana Pacheco, widow of Juan de Villegas. Diego de Leiva had two daughters: Catalina de Leiva, from Tocuy, who married Captain Diego de Escorcha, and they were the parents of Francisco Fernández de Escorcha, who married Ginesa Marques. The other daughter, Francisca de Leiva, married Alonso Martín and their son, Alonso Martín Camacho, from Tocuyano, married his relative Catalina de Escorcha, from Tocuyana. Diego de Leiva was the great-grandfather of Doña María Sánchez Camacho, married to Juan de Angulo, both from Tocuyo. Another great-granddaughter, Doña Catalina de Escorcha, married Juan de Yepes, a native of Villa de Chinchón, Toledo, Spain, and it was the first of this surname that was established at the beginning of the 17th century, in El Tocuyo, leaving numerous descendants in Venezuela.


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