Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain had made Albornoz auditor, one of five royal officials named to oversee Cortés's government in the colony.
Gonzalo Salazar was a high-ranking official in the Royal Treasury of the colony, and at times a member of the junta that ruled New Spain.
Two years later Beltrán de Guzmán visited the city, and at the request of its inhabitants, who were fearful of Indian attacks and lacked sufficient water, he ordered it moved to Tonalá.
The Pánuco mine was inherited by his descendant Don Juan Bravo de Medrano y Oñate, I Count of Santa Rosa in the 17th century.
Juan became an explorer of western North America and founder of the first Spanish settlement on the upper Rio Grande in the present U.S. state of New Mexico.
[4] Although accusing does not imply telling the truth, contrary to other Spaniards who were convicted of mistreatment of indigenous people, Cristobal de Oñate was not sentenced at all.
How Jorge Luis García Ruiz relates in his book Presidio:[5] "The Indians found themselves in force and two months later they were besieging Guadalajara.
Cristóbal de Oñate, in command of the Spanish forces, decided to break the siege, placing the women with arquebuses on top of the wall in order to appear more defensive, and concentrating the artillery and cavalry on one of the fronts, and after destroying it, re-entering the city to, leaving through another gate, charge on another front, making the Indians think that there was much more force than the real one.
A generous spirit, he offered meals to the needy on a daily basis throughout his entire life, and is said to have turned over the proceeds from his encomiendas to improve native villages.