Editing Juan de Oñate (section)

==Early years==
[[File:Coat of Arms of Juan de Oñate y Salazar.svg|175px|thumb|left|Coat of Arms of Juan de Oñate y Salazar]]
Oñate was born in 1550, at [[Zacatecas (city)|Zacatecas]] in [[New Spain]] (colonial México), to the [[Southern Basque Country|Spanish-Basque]] [[conquistador]] and silver baron [[Cristóbal de Oñate]], a descendant of the noble [[house of Haro]]. Oñate's mother, Doña Catalina Salazar y de la Cadena,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Simmons |first=Marc |title=The Last Conquistador : Juan de Oñate and the Settling of the Far Southwest |date=1991 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=0-8061-2338-9 |page=30}}</ref> had among her ancestors Jewish-origin [[New Christian]]s who "served in the royal court of Spanish monarchs from the late 1300s to the mid-1500s."<ref name="elpalacio.org">"Piety and privilege collide in Juan de Oñate’s Jewish-converso lineage". by José Antonio Esquibel, Fall 2016, ''El Palacio The Magazine of the Museum of New Mexico'', http://www.elpalacio.org/2016/09/blood-oaths/</ref> She was of Spanish ancestry and descended from [[conversos]], former [[Sephardic Jews|Jews]], on at least several branches of her family tree.<ref>''Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama'', Frances Levine, 2016, University of Oklahoma Press{{ISBN?}}</ref>  Among these ''converso'' relatives was her paternal grandfather, the royal physician Doctor Guadalupe de Salazar. Other family members became Christians in the 1390s, around 160 years before Oñate's birth.  Her father was [[Gonzalo de Salazar]], leader of several councils that governed New Spain while [[Hernán Cortés]] was traveling to Honduras in 1525–26.

Juan de Oñate married [[Isabel de Tolosa Cortés de Moctezuma]], who was the granddaughter of [[Hernán Cortés]], the conqueror of the [[Aztec Empire|Triple Alliance]], and the great-granddaughter of the [[Aztec]] [[Tlatoani|Emperor]] [[Moctezuma Xocoyotzin]].<ref name=Thrapp>L. Thrapp, Dan. ''Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: G–O'', University of Nebraska Press, 1991, p. 1083 {{ISBN?}}</ref>

They had two children: 
* Cristóbal de Oñate who married María Gutiérrez del Castillo who had [[Issue (genealogy)|issue]], Juan Pérez de Narriahondo y Castillo.
* María de Oñate who married Vicente de Zaldívar who had [[Issue (genealogy)|issue]], Nicolás de Zaldívar y Oñate.