On Monday, February 14, 2022 at 11:01:54 PM UTC-8, Olivier wrote:
Looking at the TV program Finding your roots https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/mexican-roots , it says that Mario Lopez is a descendant of Baltasar Temiño de Bañuelos https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Temi%C3%B1o_de_Ba%
C3%B1uelos
Is this conquistador a descendant of Spanish royal families?
I don't know. The Wikipedia page traces as far as his grandparents, and most of the surnames belong to families that are rather obscure. The only surnames I am familiar with among the lot are Velasco, which has very deep roots in the Basque lands of
Castile, and his wife's Mendoza. Even recognizing these names, there is no basis for concluding whether or not there is a royal connection. In most families, some branches marry well while others do not, and it would depend from which branch the person
derived, plus in Iberia you also have the confounding problem of onomastic assimilation - the practice whereby Jewish or Moorish converts, or Mozarabs looking to assimilate, simply adopted 'typical' naming styles of the dominant culture. An Isaac
Abulafia might become Lope Iniguez de Mendoza, with no connection to the noble de Mendoza clan, so bearing a recognizabel surname is no indication one shares a descent with the notable family of that name. As such, I am left with insufficient information
to reach any conclusion.
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