Diego Perez De Bustillo

  General Notes:

"Diego Perez de Bustillo adopted the surname Santa Cruz. As Diego de Santa Cruz, captain, he was known as the son of Juan Perez de Bustillo and Maria de la Cruz. He gave his age as twenty-six in 1617, and thirty-five in 1626, when he stated that he had been born in Zacatecas and reared in Santa Fe. Diego was dead by 1661, when it was alleged that he had been allowed to marry his blood-niece. Gregoria de Archuleta, daughter of his own sister. What is more likely, he was not a real son of the Bustillo family, and the Padres, apprised of the secret fact, allowed him to wed a daughter of his adopted sister. Such accusations were often made against the friars, usually when the principals in the case were long dead and gone." (Origins, pp.87, 102)

Diego married Gregoria Archuleta, daughter of Asencio Arechuleta and Ana Perez De Bustillo.