Clues to the paternal roots of don Juan de Oate

Gothic roots
Clues to the paternal roots of don Juan de Oñate
José Antonio Esqubel has given us the maternal line, which converted to Catholicism but little has been
written on his paternal side.
Most lineages start with Pedro Belza Naharriondo who lived in the first third of the 15th century, Señor de la
casa solar de Naharriondo en Oñate, taken from Alberto y Arturo Garcia Carrafa, ENCICLOPEDIA
HERALDICA Y GENEALOGICA, Narriondo V. 61 p. 50
If we start at the first paragraph we learn that Pedro Lezcano established this solar (estate) for his descendents,
and Pedro Lezcano was descended from don Lope Diaz de Haro, onceno Señor de Viscaya.
In Alberto y Arturo Garcia Carrafa, ENCICLOPEDIA HERALDICA Y GENEALOGICA,.Haro V.42 p.265
using Lope Diaz de Haro as a starting place we find he was the 11th Señor of Vizcaya and Alférez Mayor of
Castilla, he was called “Cabeza Brava” for his undaunted courage in battle, he was the first Señor de Baeza
and held the Señorios of Haro, Alava, Bureba, Nájera, y la Alcaldia de Castilla. His wife was doña Urraca
Alonso (hija natural de Alonso IX de León y de Galicia y de doña Inés Iñiguez de Mendoza, y hermana, por lo
tanto, del Rey Fernando III (the Saint). he fought with his father in the Crusades, and he died in 1236.
Lope was the son of
X. Diego López de Haro 10th Señor de Soberano de Vezcaya from 1170- 1214.He held the Señorios of Bureba,
Valpuesta, Belorado, Grañón, Aguilar de Campóo, Monteagudo, Logroño, Soria, Calahorra y Nájera, and the
positions of Merino Mayor de Castilla y Alférez Real. Lopes Mother was Manrique de Lara (hija del Conde
don Manrique, Señor de Molina y Mesa y Alférez de Alfonso VII, y de su mujer doña Hermerinda,
Vizcondesa de Narbona), Diegos 2nd wife was doña Toda Pérez. Diego López de Haro served as Capitan
General in the battle of las Navas de Tolosa which stoped the advance of Islam into the rest of Spain. He was
knowen as “el bueno” or “el malo’ depending on which side of the battle they were on.
IX El Conde Lope Diaz de Haro or Lope de Nájera, d.May 1170 ninth Señor Soberano de Vezcaya, Haro,
Aibar, Fayola, y Canas, y Alferez Mayor del Rey. He minted a coin with two lobos (wolves). He Married
Mencia daughter of Conde don Arias o Barcelos.
VIII Diego Lopez de Haro d. 1123 married to Maria Ordonez.
VII Lope Iniguez d.1093, married Tello Diaz daughter of Diego Alvarez de Asturias and Sancha Diaz.
VI Iñigo Lopez d. 1077 + Toda Ortiz daughter of Fortun Sanchez.
V Lope Nuñez +Usenda daughter of Audonio Infante de León.
IV Nuño Lopez +Blanca (Belasquita) daughter of King Sancho Garcia II of Navarre + Toda Aznarez.
III Lope Fortunez u Ortiz +Nuña González.
II Duque Fortun (Zuria) d. 930 at an old age + Oria u Aurea
I Lope Sarracinez died Aft. 906 + Dalda, he was the first Señor de Vizcaya.
Goths decended
Athal of the Goths, his son Achiulf, then Vultwulf,Walaravans, Winithar/Withemir b.321-392, Wandalar d.
Abt 459, Theodemer King of the Ostagoths b.Abt 413 d. Abt 475, Theoderic Ostagothic King b. Abt 455; d.
Abt 526, his daughter Theodora married Severinum, Duke of Cartagena, his children were Saint Leander and
Theodosia who married Leonvigild Visigothic King of Spain, Who lived in and ruled from Toledo in central
Spain, his son Saint Hermengild he put to death in Terragona When he refused communion on Easter from an
Arian bishop. St. Gregory the great credits Saint Hermenegild with the conversion of all Visigothic Spain, he
was married to Ingunda daughter of Sigebert King of Austrasin and Brunchildis of Spain, his son Athangildo
married Flavia Juliana of the Roman Ceasers, their son Ardebasto married Godo, their son Ervingio married
Liubigotona, their son was Pedro Duke of Cantabria his sons were Fruela and Alfonso I, Fruelas son Bermudo
I, VIII Rey de Asturias,married Usenda Nunilona their son King Ramero I of Asturias married to Paterna, their
son Ordono I KIng of Asturias y Galicia +Munia a son Alonso III of Asturias y Galicia +Jimena de Navarra
,their son Ordono II +Elvira Nuna, their son was Ramiro II King of Leon, de Asturias, married Urraca or
Teresa Florentina Sanchez, their son Audonio Infante of Leon +Elena Godinez, their daughter Usenda, married
Lope Nunez fifth Señor de Soberano de Vizcaya.
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