Maria Bravo

Hello everybody I'm a bit puzzled and confused about understanding the record of my family. I found some stuff online on my father's family name, Argažello / Argaželles and he took me to a site dedicated to the Hispanic Heritage Society and the diversity of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research . http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2005/spaug0 ... The article is in Spanish. So here's a translation.

"This line above the ancient brotherhood of Madrid, whose name he took, which includes the municipalities of Val Logueros, median and Tertia Arguello Trail, nestled in the roughest mountains of Leaģn, which border on the north by the province Oviedo. places belonging to the judicial district of Vecilla today.

Arguello was also established in Asturias, because of the geographical proximity of its solar house, it is the opinion of leading authorities, who settled in this region has changed its name to Argaželles version is guaranteed by the similarity of weapons with both strains.


Don Inigo de Argažello, a native of Carrion de los Condes, Palencia, was the first to move to Extremadura Don Gabriel Manrique, its parent, First Earl of Osorno, s Galisteo and defend their land. He was the son of Don Hernando de Argažello Hebi, Carrion's powerful knight and Dona Juana de Arguello, of the same lineage, his wife, hermanade Fray Arguello, San Francisco, religious, the Infante Don Fernando Confessor, King of Aragon, Bishop of Palencia and Siguenza and the Archbishop of Zaragoza and the Chancellor of the King Don Alonso V of Aragon, who died in 1429, little son of Don Inigo de Argažello and his wife Dona Leonor of Hebi, great grand-son Don Hernando de Argažello, a descendant of Senor the villages of Pobladura Arguello, median, Rudiyermo, San Martin and other places and subjects of the manor, that of Ricoshombres me in the mountains of Leon, in Superior Council of the road Argažello, and his wife donated Aldonsa Hernandez Manrique Counts of Osorno.

He died on said Don Inigo de Argažello, the first step to foreign lands in Galisteo, Caceres June 8, 1479, appears as his will was granted to Don Pedro Montoya, notary of the place. Married Dona Catalina de Carvajal, who was Don Hernando de Carvajal y Argažello, the first in this house that has been in the village of Brozas also in Caceres, married to Dona Maria Bravo, one of his son, Don Inigo de Argažello Carvajal, born in this population, 17 June 1496, Rector of the University of Salamanca in 1526, Knight of the Order of Santiago in 1555, the Royal Council of the Order, who died in Madrid August 22, 1566. His brother, Don Juan, who wore the same dress, founded the convent of nuns, in Zamora.

The Rector of Don Inigo Arguello, he married Dona Catalina Ubirrichaga; child had Don Inigo Argažello Carvajal parroquiade named Santa Maria del Castillo in the city of Vildosola in the province of Biscay, before 1537, who served King Philip II in the Philippines in the province of Charcas, then being Brozas perpetual Regidor, where testo August 8, 1599.

Don Hernando de Carvajal y Argažello, son of the said Don Hernando de Arguello and Maria Bravo gives me mayorazgo successor of his house served the emperor in the German wars, which Ie done with the tithe of the square of Santiago, Village Valencia de Alcantara, for two lives, the second lord of Aldonza, was the husband of Donna Mencia de la Rocha and Ulloa, in which the father of Don Juan de Carvajal Zamora perpetual Regidor Avia and Solicitor in court for the same in Madrid , 1583.

At the same lineage, belonged Don Antonio Arguello, a native of Rio Seco, and Don Bartolomed de Arguello and Villalpando, in Villalon, Virginia