The Spanish women had to cultivate and harvest the crops of native maize and whatever European seeds they had brought along. And sturdy women they must have been, especially Luisa Robledo, as shown the first summer when wild Indians from the eastern plains came to attack San Juan when her husband and the other men were away exploring. She was the daughter of the old ensign from Toledo who had died along the trail, and the wife of Bartolomé Romero, likewise a Toledan who was one of Oñate's best captains. Brave Luisa gathered all the Spanish and Indian women on the flat rooftops to pelt the invaders with stones while taunting them...[1]
Luisa Robledo was the wife of Bartolomé Romero and the daughter of Pedro Robledo I and Catalina López. [2]
Bartolome Romero, a soldier accompanying Onate to New Mexico in 1598, was listed on the muster roll as born in Corral de Almaguer, in the region of Toledo, the son of Bartolome Romero. His mother was Maria de Adeva, possibly a relation of the Benadevas, a prominent Jewish, and later converse family of Sevilla at the turn of the sixteenth century.[3]
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