Isidro Ordóñez was a Franciscan friar who seized control of New Mexico in 1613, imprisoning Governor Pedro de Peralta.
This was accepted, and Martínez de Montoya was named interim governor, but Oñate was ordered to remain until his permanent replacement arrived.
[3] On 7 March 1608 Viceroy Velasco recommended discontinuing the work of the colony and bringing the few Indians who had been converted back to New Spain.
Oñate sent Fray Lázaro Ximénez back to Mexico City with Isidro Ordonez to explain the situation in the colony.
In Santa Fe, despite Governor Pedro de Peralta's protests, Ordóñez proclaimed that any soldier or colonist could leave if they wanted to.
[6] Another dispute arose in May 1613 when some soldiers who were going north to collect tribute from the Indians at Taos Pueblo met Ordóñez, who sent them back to Santa Fe to observe the Feast of Pentecost.
[9]When the governor refused to submit, despite this warning, Ordóñez accused him of being a heretic, a Lutheran and a Jew,[7] thus rhetorically outcasting him from Catholicism.
[10] On 12 August 1613 Ordóñez and his followers arrested Peralta and had him chained and imprisoned in the mission of Neustra Senora de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows) at Sandia.