Editing Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (section)

== Marriages and offspring ==
According to his biographer Harry Kelsey, he took an indigenous woman as his common-law wife and sired several children, including at least three daughters.<ref name="spartacus">{{cite web|url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWcabrillo.htm|title=Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo|work=Spartacus Educational|publisher=Schoolnet.com|access-date=April 1, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402230021/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWcabrillo.htm|archive-date=April 2, 2013}}</ref> 

Later he married Beatriz Sanchez de Ortega in Seville during a hiatus in Spain. She returned to Guatemala with him and bore him two sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegohistory.org/online_resources/cabrillo.html|title=Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (? – 1543)|work=San Diego History Center|access-date=April 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313213740/http://www.sandiegohistory.org/online_resources/cabrillo.html|archive-date=March 13, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Those two sons were named Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano, his heir, and the younger Diego Sanchez de Ortega (the latter, named after his maternal uncle).<ref>{{cite book|last= Kelsey|first= Harry| title= Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo|year=1986|publisher=Huntington Library Press|location=San Marino, CA|isbn=0-87328-176-4|pages=62}}</ref>

=== Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano ===
His namesake son and heir, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de [[Medrano]],<ref name=":0">"Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Voyage of Rediscovery" by Wendy Kramer, maritime museum of San Diego. (Mains’l ''Haul A Journal of Pacific Maritime History'' Vol. 55: 1–4, 2019) p. 55  https://www.sdjewishworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Cabrillo-Maritime-Museum.pdf
</ref> was born in [[Guatemala]] in the year 1536 and died in 1592, [[Lima|Lima, Peru]]. According to Kelsey, the "de Medrano" part of his name was only added later by himself, not by baptism,<ref>Kelsey (1986), p. 12.</ref> however, all his descendants carried the surname, and  Kelsey's research and biography of Cabrillo has been extensively criticized by Martin Torodash from [[Duke University]] in the ''Hispanic American Historical Review'' (1987).<ref>Martin Torodash "Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo Book Review" ''Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) Duke University Press.'' 67 (4):  708–709  https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/67/4/708/148037/Juan-Rodriguez-Cabrillo
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Cabrillo's heir Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano was the [[Encomienda|encomendero]] of Xicalpa, Jocopila and Comitlán,<ref>''Encomienda grant to Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano'' March 31, Justicia 290, El fiscal con Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sobre el pueblo de Cobán, 1563, fols. 1, 4.</ref> and twice town [[Alcalde|magistrate]] of [[Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala|Santiago de Guatemala]] and owner of a cattle ranch along the road connecting Xicalapa to Miahuatlán.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Matthew |first=Laura |date=2023-05-01 |title=Two Bigamists in Tehuantepec: Global(ized) Itineraries in Southern Mesoamerica, circa 1600 |url=https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10368907 |journal=Hispanic American Historical Review |volume=103 |issue=2 |pages=251–282 |doi=10.1215/00182168-10368907 |s2cid=258667338 |issn=0018-2168}}</ref> In February 1579 he helped Francisco  Díaz Del Castillo as a witness to his [[testimony]].<ref>''Notes on writings by and about Bernal Díaz Del Castillo'' p. 210.  https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-pdf/25/2/199/749719/0250199.pdf
</ref> Medrano served as an active [[Alcalde|magistrate]] of the Santiago de Guatemala [[Cabildo (council)|Cabildo]] in 1577.<ref>Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano served as alcalde in 1577. See AGCA, A1.2.2. Leg.1770,  Exp.11764, “''Libro Séptimo de Cabildos desta cibdad  (de Guatemala) desde 1577 hasta 1588 años''.”</ref> He was also involved in a well-known dispute over the encomienda of [[Cobán]].<ref>''Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Voyage of Rediscovery'' by Wendy Kramer, maritime museum of San Diego. (Mains’l Haul A Journal of Pacific Maritime History Vol. 55: 1–4, 2019) p. 74 https://www.sdjewishworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Cabrillo-Maritime-Museum.pdf</ref>

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano married with Isabel de Aldana and had two sons, the older son and heir named Alonso Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano,<ref>see ''AGI, INDIFERENTE, 2056, n.94''</ref> who inherited his father's encomiendas,<ref>A1.39. Leg.1752, Exp.11737, Encomienda in favor of Alonso Cabrillo de Medrano, 1592, fol. 35.</ref> and the younger Geronimo Cabrillo de Aldana, father of Esteban de Medrano y Solórzano.<ref>''Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo,  a Voyage of Rediscovery'' by Wendy Kramer, maritime museum of San Diego. (Mains’l Haul A Journal of Pacific Maritime History Vol. 55: 1–4, 2019) p. 100 https://www.sdjewishworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Cabrillo-Maritime-Museum.pdf

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The younger Geronimo Cabrillo de Aldana inherited the family encomiendas after the death of his older brother Alonso Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano.<ref>''AGI, Guatemala 97, N.37''</ref> Geronimo's son and heir Esteban de Medrano y Solórzano<ref>A1.20, Leg.685, Heirs of Jerónimo Cabrillo de Aldana, encomienda in Chiapas, 1628, folio 366</ref> wrote his [[Will and testament|will]] in 1688 as the legitimate son of Geronimo Cabrillo de Aldana; the grandson of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo de Medrano; and great-grandson of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo.<ref>A1.20. Leg.1032, Exp.9525, Will of Esteban de Medrano y Solórzano, legitimate son of Jerónimo Cabrillo de Aldana, 1668, folio 33</ref> On 24 May 1670, Esteban de Medrano y Solórzano was recorded as the [[chancellor]] and [[regidor]] of the [[Real Audiencia of Guatemala|''Audiencia y Cancillería Real de Santiago de Guatemala'']].<ref>''Esteban de Medrano y Solórzano, Chancellor and Regidor of Guatemala (1670)'' https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/151909

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