NameMarina Estrada de la Caballeria
FatherAlonso de Estrada (1470-1530)
Misc. Notes
Marina de Estrada who was married to don Luis Saavedra de Gúzman, second son of don Juan de Saavedra, Conde de Castellar, and a grandson of the Duque de Medina Sidonia

? Doña Marina Flores Gutiérrez de la Caballería became an influential and prominent women of early Nueva España, particularly following the death of her husband in 1531. As matriarch of her small family in Nueva España she expanded her influence by making careful matrimonial alliances between her daughters and prominent conquistadors. In time, she became the matriarch of one of the three most politically powerful extended families of Nueva España in the sixteenth century.
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