The connection of the Dorantes Carranza family to the Lopez Peralta family is of paramount importance when dissecting what Dorantes Carranza jr. wrote. If I didn't know of this connection, I would find everything he wrote on this family as suspect since it presents a very old Diego Coría marrying a very young daughter of Jeronimo Lopez Peralta. But since I do know that the Dorantes Carranza family is closely related, and were involved with the Lopez Peralta family, I take the part of a Diego Coría marrying and having a child named Diego Coría Peralta as the truth. Checking the time frame does not allow any other generation between Diego Coría Peralta and Manuel Coría Peralta. This timeline is based on wills, marriage dates, and birth dates

What I'm not convinced of is the identity of the Diego Coria married to Maria Mendoza. It is not impossible, but it is unlikely, that this Diego Coría is the same Diego Coría that was a conquistador. I believe that it is much more likely that he is a son, or even grandson of Diego Coria the conquistador. Or the dates on the conquistador are way off. What we do have is the Lopez Peralta line going way back, and the only question is which of the daughters that became nuns was first married to Diego Coria. One of the possible sisters becomes a nun after being involved in the Dorantes scandal.

Rick A. Ricci

1). Diego Coría Married to Maria Mendoza aka Ana de San Bernardo

2). Diego Coría y Mendoza Peralta and wife unknown at this time

3). Manuel Coría Peralta married to Catalina Lomelin

The family of Maria Mendoza guides the possible birth dates.

Maria Mendoza is most likely the sister that took the religious name Ana de San Bernardo when she became a nun.

Maria Mendoza Lopez De Peralta is born after 1567, most likely born in 1576, ninth born to Jeronimo el mozo. (There was one set of twins before her.)

#2 Diego Coría Mendoza Lopez Peralta s born after 1591

# 3 Manuel Coria Peralta born Circa 1607

Even though it is stated that the Diego Coría that marries the daughter of Jeronimo Lopez el tesorero, is the conquistador, it seems unlikely, though not impossible. He would have been very old. What is significant is that Jeronimo Lopez de Peralta and his daughter are identified as such and that they are identified by a relation of theirs. By a relation that knew the daughters well. The ancestry and descent of the Lopez Peralta is well documented.

It is written that Manuel was from the first marriage and is not son of Maria Mendoza. If this is true then Manuel does not have Peralta as part of his surname. Then the son Diego Coría y Mendoza is the father of Manuel Coría Peralta that is married to Catalina Lomelin. So it would look like this:

1) Alonso Coría and Leonor Rodriguez

2) Diego Coría y Rodriguez. El Viejo. Married to Maria Mendoza Peralta

3) Diego Coría y Mendoza Peralta and wife unknown at this time

4) Manuel Coría Peralta married to Catalina Lomelin

The family of Maria Mendoza guides the possible birth dates of # 3 and # 4.

# 4 Manuel Most likely born circa 1590/1600

I forgot to add that if this Dorantes Carranza is the same man that was involved n a scandalous incident with one of Jeronimo Lopez's daughters then he would know if Diego Coría had married into this family. He was a relation that had to run for his life before things calmed down and he got away with just paying a big fine. Due to his actions and others doing the same thing, the Catholic Church changed a rule concerning marriage. The daughter that he was involved with eventually became a nun.

Marcelina may know more about him if he is the same man as he was also involved with a daughter from the Laguna Bravo family. A member of the Peralta family married a member of the Laguna Bravo family so they too were related to the Lopez Peralta family

Since Diego Coría el viejo has a son named Diego Coría, it is possible that people have confused the two and it is the younger Diego Coria that is the one that marries Maria Mendoza. The problem with this theory though is that the younger Diego Coria is said to be the son of Maria Mendosa. There were at least three Diego Corias, el viejo, el menor, and a grandson (III) in a row. Due to the very large age difference between Diego Coría and Maria Mendoza Peralta, you would think that it is more likely that she is married to his son, so then she couldn't be his mother. But since people do have Maria Mendoza married to el viejo. The only possible way for this to be true would have been for him to have been married to her at what we would call retirement age and she would have been a young teenager. Before people start saying that it would have been impossible I will add that my own father remarried at retirement age and had at least five more children as he had five more children with his second wife. Five.

Diego Coría el viejo

Some of the dates that I read on the Diego Coría (el viejo) that marries Maria Mendoza, daughter of Jeronimo Lopez cannot be true.

Diego Coría 'el viejo' is the son of Alonso Coría and Leonor Rodriguez.
(His mother remarries after becoming a widow and has issue from the second marriage).

Diego Coría el viejo has a first marriage to Isabel Chavez, a daughter of Conquistador Hernando de Chavez (5 children) (Hernando Chavez is a brother to conquistador Gutierre de Badajoz). It seems that Isabel Chavez dies while giving birth to their last child in 1550.

Diego el viejo is then said to marry Maria Mendoza, a daughter of Jeronimo Lopez el tesorero.

The problems with what genealogists are taking as facts begin here. It looks like genealogists are mistakenly saying that Diego's father in law is the elder "viejo Jeronimo Lopez. The father has three wives and one of them is surnamed Alvarez Mendoza. Some genealogist mistakenly believe that Maria Mendoza is her daughter. Once they make the mistake of confusing who the father is, they compound this mistake by giving Maria Mendoza a much earlier birthdate, further mixing up the information.

Since Jeronimo Lopez el mozo is her father, she could not have been married in 1551 to Diego Coría el viejo since she had not been born yet. Since the Peralta in the surname comes from Jeronimo el Mozo's second wife, Maria Mendoza has to be from the second wife, Diego Coría el viejo was a very old man when he married Maria Mendoza who had to have been very young when this marriage takes place. Then, since most of Jeronimo's daughters are recorded as becoming nuns when her father is writing his testament, then she must have become a nun once she is widowed. But since the names of his daughters that became nuns are only known to us by their religious name, we are unable to find out which one was originally baptized Maria Mendoza. The Mendoza surname comes from a greatgrandparent from the Peralta side of the family.

Since Diego Coría el viejo is an old man and has a very young wife, the son of his that is named Manuel Coría could very well have been the Manuel Coría Peralta married to Catalina Lomelin.

What we know for sure is that Diego Coría el Viejo is the father or grandfather of Manuel Coría Peralta married to Catalina Lomelin. But since now we know that he was very old when he was having children, the two Manuels may be the same person.

If Diego Coría el viejo was born circa 1505, marries his first wife in 1534, becomes a widower in 1550, then he marries a very young Maria Mendoza when he is in his sixties or seventies, then His son Manuel could well have been having children in the 1620's and 1630's.

Some genealogist have a different line then the one I have put together. They have the Manuel Coría Peralta married to Catalina Lomelin as the son of Juan Alonso Coría Peralta, and grandson of Diego Coría and Maria Mendoza Lopez Peralta. As I wrote before, son and grandson both fit in the timelines. But only the correct timelines with the very old Diego el viejo marrying a very young Maria Mendoza, daughter of Jeronimo Lopez "el mozo", and whose mothers birth dates and marriage dates help date her.