A male-dominated society: Francisco de Fonseca and Conqueror Cristóbal Madrigal were in-laws in Costa Rica, 16th century. Cervantes and His Age: Don Quixote and a Spain in Crisis.

A male-dominated society: Francisco de Fonseca de Angulo and Conqueror Cristóbal Madrigal were in-laws in Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica, 16th century.  SOCIETY in the 16th Century, https://youtu.be/YDubfkyovIQ.

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Francisco de Fonseca de Angulo was born in 1581, in Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain as the son of Miguel De Fonseca and Antonia De Angulo. He married Catalina de Aguilar in Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica. They were the parents of María Fonseca and others.

Madrigal, Christopher was a Conqueror, and scribe. He was probably born about the first half of the 16th century and died about the second half of the 16th century. Married to Elvira Gómez, he had Cristóbal Madrigal, married to María Fonseca, as a son. 

 

He arrived in Costa Rica on the expedition of Juan Vázquez de Coronado and served as his notary in the expedition to the North Sea. The notaries were people with some intellectual preparation, given the characteristics of the work they had to do. However, most were selected on an emergency basis, without dwelling deeply on analyzing their intellectual qualities. 

 

The good work of Cristóbal Madrigal allowed him to keep the position during the entire stay of Juan Vázquez de Coronado in Costa Rica. He even accompanied him on the expedition through the Talamanca mountain range to the Estrella Valley. In 1564, before the eminent trip that Juan Vázquez de Coronado would make to Spain to personally report his conquest achievements, he had three notaries: Cristóbal Madrigal, another named Juan Manuel, and a third named Barrera.

 

Vázquez de Coronado could not finish his work, nor enjoy the rewards granted by Felipe II. The ship on which he returned to Costa Rica, called San Joseph, sank in 1565. With this misfortune, he ended his work as a notary. He lived the rest of his life in Cartago, although, as he was one of the beneficiaries of Juan Vázquez de Coronado, he owned a gold mine in the Estrella Valley. His son, of the same name, was born in Cartago in 1585, had the rank of captain and with his wife, María Fonseca had an only son named Mateo Madrigal.  María de Fonseca was born in 1568, in Cartago, Costa Rica as the daughter of Francisco de Fonseca de Angulo and Catalina de Aguilar. She had at least 2 sons with Alférez Cristóbal de Madrigal. She died on 21 October 1669, in her hometown, at the age of 101.
 

Mateo Madrigal's 9th great granddaughter is my mother Nydia M. Vega-Rodriguez. Details: Mateo Madrigal's daughter's daughter's son's daughter's daughter's son's daughter's son's son's daughter's daughter is Nydia M. Vega-Rodriguez.
 

Mateo Madrigal daughter María de Madrigal daughter Luisa de Quintana son Sebastián C. de Zamora daughter Maria C. Zamora daughter Manuela J. Madrigal son José M. Arce daughter Bárbara D.L. Arce son Manuel D.J. Rodríguez-Arce son Juan Jerónimo Rodríguez-Arias daughter Angelica Rodriguez-Arias daughter Nydia M. Vega-Rodriguez. Related episode, Francisco Vazques's nephew is Juan Antonio Vázquez de Coronado 1er Adelantado de Costa Rica, and 4º Alcalde Mayor de Nueva Cartago.

 

Gutierrez Sibaja, Alonso. Guatemala City (Guatemala), 1541 – Cartago (Costa Rica), 1623. Conqueror, settler and encomendero. He was born in Guatemala in 1541, and died in Cartago around the year 1623, of advanced age for the time and was blind in his last days. His father, named Alonso Gutiérrez de Monzón, arrived in Mexico with Hernán Cortes and later settled in Guatemala, where he joined the Cabildo. Later, the son moved to León in Nicaragua, and there he enlisted in the ranks of Juan de Cavallón, to participate in the conquest of Costa Rica, for which he made his weapons, horses and men available to the company. This allowed him to be one of the founders of Landecho, Abangares, and Garcimuñoz, already in the central valley of the province, and later Cartago.  

Like other comrades in arms and the conquering company of those years, it was up to him to participate actively in the conquest of Atirro, Turrialba, Corroci, Curriravá, Cumirara, Barva, Uxaproci and Toyopaz. After founding Cartago and contributing to the pacification of the areas surrounding the city, he participated with Juan Solano and Álvaro de Acuña in a commission to the inland, to obtain provisions for the city, which made it easier for him to travel the coasts of the central Pacific and south of the province. His long stay in Costa Rica also allowed him to be a participant in many stellar events and moments of that period of Costa Rican history; for example, in 1570 he participated in the expedition of Governor Perafán de Rivera to the inland and was one of the founders of the city of Nombre de Jesús, which allowed him to be named sergeant and mayordomo of the city. Then in 1576, thanks to his services, Alonso Anguciana de Gamboa entrusted him with the towns, caciques and Indians of Ebuxebux, Bribri and TaqueTaque or Pocris, near Cartago. According to his biographer Juan R. Víquez, from the documentation of the time it is easy to deduce that his life was “long, calm and disinterested in favor of the Crown, he was never involved in the local intrigues very common in the incipient colony [ ...] which makes us believe that he was a good man [...] hardworking in the tasks of the land [...]”.

 

Sargento Mayor Alonso Gutiérrez de Sibaja's 10th great granddaughter is Nydia M. Vega-Rodriguez. Rafael Alberto Vilagut-Vega mother Nydia M. Vega-Rodriguez mother Angelica Rodriguez-Arias father Juan Jerónimo Rodríguez-Arias mother María Fulgencia Arias-Ugalde mother Bernardina Ugalde Bolaños mother Juana Bolaños Santos y Ulate father Joseph Mariano Santos-Villalobos mother María Antonía Villalobos father Capitán Juan Villalobos Sibaja mother Catalina Sibaja Ortega father Teniente Alonso Sibaja y Zárate mother Catalina Gutiérrez de Sibaja de Zarate father Sargento Mayor Alonso Gutiérrez de Sibaja

 

Catalina Gutiérrez de Sibaja de Zarate's grandfather's second cousin's grandson is Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: "«la honra puédela tener el pobre, pero no el vicioso: la pobreza puede anublar a la nobleza, pero no escurecerla del todo. Pero como la virtud dé alguna luz de sí, aunque sea por los inconvenientes y resquicios de la estrechez, viene a ser estimada de los altos y nobles espíritus, y por el consiguiente favorecida»" Cerv., pról. a la P. II de su Quijote. 

 

When Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born on 29 September 1547, in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, his father, Rodrigo de Cervantes y de Saavedra, was 38 and his mother, Leonor de Cortinas, was 27. He married Silena about 1574, in Italy. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He registered for military service in 1571. He died on 22 April 1616, in Madrid, Spain, at the age of 68, and was buried in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

 

Cervantes and His Age: Don Quixote and a Spain in Crisis, https://youtu.be/mlldInq9zmY.  Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is commonly considered the first modern novel. It certainly is one of the most beloved -- it has more translations than any book save the Bible. Everyone knows the story of the lovable madman who imagines himself to be a knight and goes "tilting at windmills" -- a term that has entered the common lexicon and the popular imagination.

Interpretations of Cervantes's novel treat it either as a series of character studies or as a criticism of medieval literature that lures the title character into madness. While these readings certainly are valid, they do not tell the whole story. Indeed, they overlook the most powerful aspect of Cervantes's satire.

More than merely writing engaging characters and humorous subplots, Cervantes wrote his novel as a withering criticism of the Spanish society of his day. This lecture will explore the history of Spain since the fall of the Roman Empire, its impact on the Spanish character of Cervantes's day, and more generally, how Cervantes uses the character of Don Quixote to personify and thereby criticize a nation and a culture that has lost its sense of purpose.

 San Jose Costa Rica, Tuesday, January 24th, 2023, alberto.doer@gmail.com. Rafael A. Vilagut-Vega.