[2][3] In 1706, the area came under the direct control of the Spanish Crown, with Philip V from the House of Bourbon granting José Sarmiento de Valladares, the royal title of Duke and Lord of Atlixco.

These conflicts originate from Atlixco’s strategic importance and fertile land, which later made it a vital agricultural center in New Spain during Don Diego Fernández de Medrano's governorship.

[2] Diego Fernández de Medrano y Zapata was a Basque-Castillian nobleman and colonial administrator in New Spain, born in Sojuela, and later a resident of Logroño in La Rioja.

[3] The Lordship of Sojuela was ruled by his relative Diego Fernández de Medrano y Zeniceros, who was also Lord of Valdeosera, author, commissioner of Spanish infantry, priest, chaplain, etc.

[15] Diego Fernández de Medrano y Zeniceros, Lord of Valdeosera and Sojuela, was the author of the panegyric and political treatise "Heroic and Flying Fame of the Most Excellent Lord Don Luis Méndez de Haro, Count-Duke of Olivares"[15] and the political treatise "Mirror of Princes: Crucible of their Virtues, Astonishment of their Failings, Soul of their Government and Government of their Soul" dedicated to Don Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, of the House of Austria.

[18] King Philip IV of Spain, through a Royal dispatch dated June 23, 1638, issued a report detailing the services of Diego's relative Clemente Fernández de Medrano, employed by His Majesty and recorded in the documents of the secretary of state and war of the Government of the Kingdom of Sicily, based on his original papers, which were submitted by his grandsons, Francisco and Nicolás Fernández de Medrano, in Palermo on July 25, 1690.

[23][10] His ancestor Francisco Fernandez de Medrano, from Navarrete, lord and divisero of Regajal, fought during the French Wars of Religion under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma.

[24] Diego Fernández de Medrano y Espinosa was born in Logroño in 1564, his grandfather had also been a secretary to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, himself.