Antonio de Ibargaray explained

Antonio de Ibargaray (or Ybargaray) was a Franciscan missionary to New Spain.

Biography

Ibargaray was born in Bilbao around the year 1602.^{[1] [2]} He entered the Franciscan order on 17 January 1629, in the Spanish; Castilian: [[Convent of San Francisco, Madero Street, Mexico City|Convento Grande]] in Mexico City. On 20 January 1630, he made his solemn vows in the Spanish; Castilian: [[Convent Church of San Francisco, Puebla|Convento de San Francisco]] in Puebla.

Over the course of more than thirty years, Ibargaray served as Spanish; Castilian: [[custos]] of a number of missions, including San Miguel (1635), Pecos (1636), Nambé (1662),^[3] and Galisteo (1663–1665).^[4] On 6 October 1653, he was elected as Spanish; Castilian: custodio, or head, of the Franciscan missions in New Mexico,^{[5] [6]} a position he held until 1656.^[7] By 1668, Ibargaray was a definitor of the Franciscan order.^[8]

Governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal described Ibargaray as "very headstrong and uncontrolled". In November 1636, Ibargaray wrote a letter of complaint to the viceroy, Lope Díez de Armendáriz, about the governor, Francisco Martínez de Baeza. Between 1653 and 1656, Ibargaray clashed with governor Juan de Samaniego y Xaca, and on 6 March 1662, Ibargaray testified before the Inquisition against Teresa Aguilera y Roche, Mendizábal's wife. Ibargaray also likely served as commissary of the Inquisition.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Book: Kessell . John L. . Kiva, Cross, and Crown: The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840 . 1979 . National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior . 154-204 . 17 July 2024 . en.
2. Web site: Ibargaray, Antonio de . uair.library.arizona.edu . University of Arizona . 17 July 2024.
3. Book: Levine . Frances . Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama . 27 June 2016 . University of Oklahoma Press . 978-0-8061-5662-0 . 69 . en.
4. Book: Bloom . Lansing Bartlett . Walter . Paul A. F. . New Mexico Historical Review . 1945 . University of New Mexico . 64 . 17 July 2024 . en.
5. Book: Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University . 1949 . The Museum . 187 . 17 July 2024 . en.
6. Book: Douglass . John G. . Graves . William . New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest . 1 March 2017 . University Press of Colorado . 978-1-60732-574-1 . 120 . en.
7. Book: Sheridan . Thomas E. . Koyiyumptewa . Stewart B. . Daughters . Anton . Brenneman . Dale S. . Ferguson . T. J. . Kuwanwisiwma . Leigh J. . Lomayestewa . Leigh Wayne . Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679 . 12 November 2015 . University of Arizona Press . 978-0-8165-3184-4 . 297 . en.
8. Book: Scholes . France V. . Simmons . Marc . Esquibel . José Antonio . Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693 . 15 May 2012 . University of New Mexico Press . 978-0-8263-5115-9 . 122 . en.
9. Book: Notes from the Museum of Northern Arizona . 1955 . Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art . 31 . 17 July 2024 . en.