Pedro Robledo

  General Notes:

"Pedro Robledo was a sixty-year-old Alferez when he accompanied Onate's troops in 1598. He was a native of Maqueda (near Madrid and Toledo), the son of Alejo Robledo, of good stature and completely gray. In the muster-roll of 1597 he stated that he had been born at the place of El Carmen or "El Carnero," and had lived in Toledo. With him were his wife and daughters, and five sons. The four eldest sons were soldiers already...
Old Pedro died shortly after the Onate colony moved into what is now New Mexico, the first of the colonists to die here. He was buried on Corpus Christi Day, May 21, 1598, on the trail east of the Rio del Norte and a great bluff still called "Robledo," The varied birthplaces of his sons show how much this family had wandered all over New Spain before reaching New Mexico.
Pedro's family went on north with the coloniy to found San Gabriel. His widow was Catalina Lopez, who had come to America with him from Toledo more than twenty years before." (Origins, p. 93)

Pedro married Catalina Lopez. (Catalina Lopez was born in Spain ³⁰⁸.)