I followed this lineage as it was in many secondary sources. However, now that I have discovered a different ancestry for the Ruy Diaz de Mendoza that is the husband of Leonor Salazar, I would like to dig deeper into the ancestors of Maria Mendoza, wife of Luis Marin. I will soon post an ancestry of the Ruy Diaz de Mendoza married to Leonor.

36. Rudy Diaz de Mendoza
+ Catalina Arellano del Rio

(Parents ?)

37. Maria Mendoza
+ Luis Marin (b1491)

Does anyone have any evidence for these claims other than secondary sources?

Thanks,

Rick A. Ricci

The problem is that in the family there are multiple Juan Martinez de Leyvas and a couple of Sancho Martinez de Leyvas that genealogists, myself included, have confused. Add the multiple marriages and there is even more confusion.

I had previously written:

"I have Juana Garcia de Leyva as daughter to Sancho Martinez de Leyva And Elizabeth of Suffolk but I have also seen some genealogists place her as Sancho and Elizabeth's granddaughter and daughter of Juan Martinez de Leyva and Maria Diaz de Ceballos."

I have found more material indicating that Juana Garcia de Leyva is the grandaughter of Sancho Martinez de Leyva and Lady Elizabeth of Suffolk instead of the daughter so this would mean an additional generation. I need to do more research to clarify if she is the daughter or granddaughter. One secondary source even names her as a great grandaughter.

Some genealogists have even stated that Sancho "brazo de hierro"and Leyva are siblings but the evidence points to descendancy.

Descent from Pedro Zuniga Ist Conde de Ledesma to Lady Diana Spencer and Margarita Rocha Gutierrez

32. Pedro López de Zúñiga y García de Leyva, I Conde de Ledesma, Conde de Plasencia, Justicia Mayor del Rey and Alguacil mayor del Rey + Isabel de Guzmán y Ayala, III Señora de Gibraleón

33. Alvaro Peres de Zuniga y Leyva (1410?-1488) + Eleonore Pimentel (second wife of Alvaro)

34. Isabella Zuniga y Pimentel (1470-1520) + Fadrique Alvarez Toledo

35. Pedro Alvarez Toledo (1485-?) + Maria Osorio-Pimentel

36. Eleonora Alvarez Toledo (1522-1562) + Cosimo I de Medici

37. Francesco I d'Medici of Italy (1541-1581) + Joanna Hapsburg, Archduchess of Austria(1547-1578)

38. Maria de Medici (1573-1642) + Henry IV Bourbon of France

39. Henriette Marie de Bourbon (1609-1699) + Charles I of England, (1600-1649)

40. Charles II of England, (1630-1685) + Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649-1734)

41. Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond (1672-1723) + Anne Brudenell (1671-1722)

42. Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701-1750) + Sarah Cadogan (1705-1751)

43. Lord George Lennox (1737-1805) + Louisa Kerr (1738-1830)

44. Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond (1764-1819) + Charlotte Gordon (1768-1842)

45. Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (1791-1860) + Caroline Paget (1796-1874)

46. Cecilia Gordon-Lennox (1838-1910) + Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan (1830-1914)

47. Rosalind Bingham (1869-1958) + James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercom (1869-1953)

48. Cynthia Hamilton (1897-1972 )+ Albert Spencer, 7th Earl of Spencer (1892-1975)

49. John Spencer, 8th Earl of Spencer (1924-1992) + France's Ruth Roche (1936-2004)

50. Lady Diana Spencer (1961-1997)

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32. Pedro López de Zúñiga y García de Leyva, I Conde de Ledesma, Conde de Plasencia, Justicia Mayor del Rey and Alguacil mayor del Rey + Isabel de Guzmán y Ayala, III Señora de Gibraleón

33. Diego Lopez de Zuniga (married twice, this is his first marriage)
+ Aldonza de Avellaneda de Aza

34. Isabel de Zuniga y Avellaneda
+ Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza

35. Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Sr. De Moron
+ Luisa Velasquez de Cuellar y Velasco

36. Rudy Diaz de Mendoza
+ Catalina Arellano del Rio

37. Maria Mendoza
+ Luis Marin

38. Mariana Mendoza
+ Cap.Juan Zaldivar

39. Maria Zaldivar Mendoza
+ Balthazar Temino de Banuelos

40. Anna Maria Banuelos m. Aft.1543
+ Francisco Figueroa de Carbajal b.abt1520

41. Francisca Figueroa Temino de Banuelos b.1548
+ Rodrigo de Carbajal, I (b.1535)

42. Rodrigo de Carbajal II
+ Melchora de los Reyes Rodriguez

43. Rodrigo de Carbajal b.abt 1603, m. 12/Sep/1628
+ Juana Lomelin y Benavides abt 1610 daughter of Italian Carlo Lomelini

44. Leonor Carbajal Bracamonte b.abt.1631, m.abt 1660
+ Juan Gonzalez de Hermosillo (b.1635, d.24/June/1699)

45. Ana Gonzalez de Hermosillo y Carbajal
+ Esteban Gomez Hurtado de Mendoza

46. Micaela Gomez Hurtado de Mendoza (c.29/May/1698) m.10/Feb/1716
+ Jose Munoz de Nava ((b.abt1698)

47. Jose Antonio Munoz de Nava
+ Gertrudis Garcia de H. y Franco (Aka Gertrudis Ramirez y Franco)

48. Juan Manuel Munoz de Nava
+ Apolonia Marquez

49. Maria de la Trinidad Munoz de Nava m. 20/Aug/1821
+ Jose Francisco de la Trinidad Martin del Campo

50. Jose Luis Deonicio Martin del Campo c.17/Oct/1822, m.29/May/1844
+ Maria Vicenta Florencia Pedrosa

51. Maria Campos y Pedrosa, m. 9/Feb/1859
+ Felipe de Jesus Gutierrez y Munoz

52. Maximiana Gutierrez y Campos b.1876, d. 13/Nov/1934
+ Ciriaco Rocha (b.1871)

53. Margarita Rocha Gutierrez, b.1910,
+ Pablo Lomelin, b.5/Jan/1905

Additional notes to help explain why some genealogist follow different genealogies
Pedro Lopez de Zuniga (-Ricohombre y Mariscal de Castilla. Sr del Estado de Zúñiga, (Camarero Mayor de Enrique III, y Justicia Mayor, y Alguacil Mayor de Castilla) married to Juana Garcia de Leyva (Sra. de Villavaquerín (Valladolid). Camarera Mayor de la Reina Beatriz de Portugal)
I have Juana Garcia de Leyva as daughter to Sancho Martinez de Leyva And Elizabeth of Suffolk but I have also seen some genealogists place her as Sancho and Elizabeth's granddaughter and daughter of Juan Martinez de Leyva and Maria Diaz de Ceballos. But Maria Diaz de Ceballos is Sancho Martinez de Leyva's mother and third cousin to Edward Windsor (King Edward III of England.). One of the reason that many genealogists have mixed up family trees is that Sancho Martinez de Leyva's father, Juan Martinez de Leiva y Velasco, married three times.

Pedro Lopez de Zuniga and Juana Garcia de Leyva are the parents of Pedro Lopez Zuniga 1st Conde de Ledesma. Pedro de Zuniga is the oldest son. 1st Conde de Ledesma y Plasencia, Justicia Mayor del Rey and Alguacil mayor del Rey, married to Isabel Guzman. Pedro and Isabel have two children marry into the Pimentel family and their descendants marry into the Alvarez de Toledo family. In many family trees there are mistakes as to whether they belong as a descendant of the son, Alvaro, or the daughter, Elvira.

Pedro de Zuniga (Conde de Ledesma) and Isabel Guzman's son named Alvaro Perez de Zuniga y Leyva has two marriages. His second marriage is to Eleonore Pimentel. Alvaro and Eleonore's daughter Isabela marries Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo.

Pedro de Zuniga (Conde de Ledesma) and Isabel Guzman have a daughter named Elvira de Zuniga y Guzman. Elvira has two marriages. Her first marriage is to Juan Alfonso Pimentel. Elvira's second marriage is to Pedro Alvarez Osorio (it is also his second marriage). Through this second marriage there is descent that also marries into the Alvarez de Toledo family.

As you can see the mixture of the Zuniga, Pimentel and Alvarez Toledo surnames have contributed to confusion as to whether they descend from Alvaro Perez de Zuniga y Leyva and Eleonore Pimentel or from Elvira de Zuniga and Pedro Alvarez Osorio, Conde de Trastámara. There is also a branch of the Osorio Pimenetel family that marries into the Alvarez de Toledo family that does not descend from the Zuniga family.

The key is that Elvira's first husband was Pimentel but the descent that marries into the Alvarez Toledo family is through the descent from the second husband, Pedro Alvarez de Osorio (Conde de Trastámara). When the Pimentel surname is involved, and there is not an Osorio surname attached, then the descent is through Alvaro Perez de Zuniga y Leyva and Eleonore Pimentel.

Source:Mygenes2000
R.A.Ricci