Origin of Baeza

In "Las Crónicas de la Casa de Vizcaya" it is recorded that this lineage had its primitive site in Baeza in the ancient house of Haro de los Señores de Vizcaya, and this is confirmed by its genealogy, which begins with Lope Ruiz de Haro or Lope López de Haro, called El Chico, to differentiate him from his father Lope Díaz de Haro, XI Lord of Vizcaya, who was the first leader of the Kingdom of Jaén, II Lord of La Guardia and Bailén, and was the first knight the first of the last name Baeza. His son was Ruy López de Haro, called by some writers Ruy López de Baeza, who was III Lord of La Guardia and Bailén. His father gave him possession of Baeza, with the towns of Bailén, Vilches, Baños and other neighboring towns (which were called the Algarve de Baeza) and he was left with the title and renown of Baeza, for being his aforementioned father the conquistador of Baeza, and for that memory he ordered him to be given the last name Baeza, on pain of his curse; which and the descendants of him were last name leaving that of Haro. After Lope Díaz de Haro died, his son Ruy López de Haro had possession of Baeza, with the accusation that his father had, and with a title of honor and vassals for life, which King Fernando gave him with it, to whom he he served in the conquests of Córdoba, Seville and the rest of Andalusia.

Some writers say that this last name does not come from the city of Baeza, nor did it take its name, nor did it have its original site there, and they affirm, instead, based on what Cascales states, that it has its origin and cradle in the town of Valdepeñas, which today belongs to the province of Ciudad Real.

The surname Baeza is held by various families of very different roots and origins, and all of them were ascendants of knights who, having been in the conquest of Baeza in 1227, took the name of said city as their surname and as a stamp of glory. . One of those gentlemen was inherited in Baeza, and there he created the solar house of his last name. Others, already taking the surname Baeza, went to different points and regions, where they founded houses and families with no kinship between them, but which independently continued the Baeza surname, inherited from their respective parents.

Hence the appearance of plots and families of this surname in Valdepeñas, Baeza, Valencia, Murcia, etc., different from each other, because their founders came from different lineages, although all had taken the name of the city as their last name de Baeza for having assisted in its conquest.

The Baezas, who had a solar house in the town of Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real), brought their origin from the Baezas of Úbeda. One of them was Pedro Sánchez de Baeza, who won the execution of nobility given in Seville on January 8, 1356, pronounced by Alonso García, Mayor of Hijosdalgo of King Don Pedro I the Cruel.

In Aragon, he had solar houses in Piedrahita (Teruel), his owner Ynyo Baeca; in Grisén (Zaragoza), its owner Johan de Baeça, and in Barbastro (Huesca), its owner Alonso de Baeça, according to the Fogueración of 1495.

They went to the Canary Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, the United States, France, Guatemala, England, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Uruguay.

They proved their nobility before the Hall of the Hijosdalgo of the Royal Chancellery of Valladolid, in the years indicated: Alonso, Bernardino and Cristóbal de Baeza, brothers, residents of Navarrete (La Rioja), in 1538; Francisco Baeza, resident of Villagarcía de Campos (Valladolid), 1538; Juan de Baeza, resident of Santiago de la Puebla (Salamanca), 1550; Gaspar de Baeza, resident of Palazuelo de Vedija (Valladolid), in 1564; Francisco de Baeza Grijalba, resident of Ponferrada (León), 1593; Sebastián de Baeza, resident of Quintanilla del Monte (Zamora), in 1712; Jerónimo de Baeza Flórez, resident of Fuentes del Ropel (Zamora), 1731; Baltasar and Josefa Baeza Flórez Tejerina, residents of Villamañán (León), 1747; Diego Baeza de la Cana, a resident of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), in 1753; Agustín de Baeza Flórez Osorio, a native of Villamañán, and resident of Tapioles (Zamora), in 1761; Juan Pío González de Baeza Alfonso Fonseca Carvajal Paz Pizarro Ponce de León, baptized in Benavente, in Zamora, on May 13, 1714 (son of Juan González de Baeza, baptized in La Puebla de Sanabria, in the same province, on May 8, September 1669, and Isabel Alfonso Fonseca, married in Benavente on August 3, 1704; grandson of Antonio González and María González de Baeza, married in La Puebla de Sanabria on February 2, 1668), in 1777, and Diego Baeza, resident of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), in 1748, which contains a decree issued in 1573 in favor of Melchor de San Miguel and Gaspar de Baeza, brothers, residents of Barcial de la Loma (Valladolid) and Palazuelo de Vedija, respectively

They proved their nobility before the Royal Chancery of Granada: Gonzalo de Baeza,neighbor of Baeza, in 1492; Rodrigo de Baeza, a native of Baeza, in 1527; Gonzalo de Baeza, a resident of Ubeda (Jaén), in 1520; Alonso de Baeza Barba, a native of Carmona, in 1577; Juan Bautista Ruiz de Baeza, a resident of Seville, in 1587; Juan Ruiz de Baeza, a resident of Seville, in 1591; Alonso de Baeza Luque, resident of Baeza, in 1602, and Juan Ramón Baeza and consorts, residents of Villacarrillo (Jaén), in 1791.

Andrés de Baeza made a file on genealogy and purity of blood in the Cathedral of Granada in 1584.

The following were named Knights of the Order of Santiago: Luis de Baeza Mendoza, in 1626; Alonso de Baeza, in 1638; Luis de Baeza, in 1640; Juan de Baeza Manrique, in 1652, and Alonso Baeza Manrique de Lara, in 1652.

The following belonged to the Order of Calatrava: Pedro Antonio de Baeza, since 1643, and Diego de Baeza y Jalón, since 1657, and to the Alcántara, Luis de Baeza Mendoza, since 1638.

Celestino Baeza Pastor was a Knight of the Order of Carlos III from 1864, and Antonio Baeza y Nieto was a Commander of the same Order from 1870.

Alonso de Baeza, a native of Toro (Zamora), was a Knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, and Juan Baeza since 1859.

The following proved their purity of blood to hold positions in the Holy Office of the Inquisition: Diego de Baeza, a native of Antequera (Málaga) and a resident of Benamejí (Córdoba), for Familiar, in Córdoba, in 1579; Tomás Baeza Polanco, a native of Burgos, for Official, in Valladolid, in 1596; Pedro Antonio Baeza Olivos, a native of Cádiz, for Officer, in Seville, in 1640, and his wife Beatriz Soto y Villavicencio, a native of Cádiz; Juan de Baeza Mendoza y Lara, a native of Seville, Knight of Santiago, for Qualifier, in Toledo, in 1680; Juan Baeza, a native and resident of Madrid, for Family, in Toledo, in 1681; Juana Rosalía Baeza la Hoya and her husband Tomás Ruiz del Hoyo, natives of Alcaudete (Jaén), for Family, in Córdoba, in 1768, and Antonio Baeza de la Cana y Bejarano, native of Madrid, for Family, in Court, in 1815.