Juan Álvarez de Eulate y Ladrón de Cegama
On the journey he upset the youthful Fray Pedro de Ortega, a Franciscan missionary, by declaring that marriage was a better state than celibacy, and that working married men were more useful than priests who only ate and slept.
A typical license read "Permit for Juan Fulano to take one orphan from wherever he finds him, provided that he treats him well and teaches him the Christian catechism.
"[4] However, after he left office some of the Indian leaders testified that he had defended them against their common enemy, and also supported them against the unreasonable demands by the priests for labor.
[1] Eulate complained, perhaps with reason, that the grandiose building projects of the missionaries were a great waste of the labor of the Indians and colonists, who could have been better employed cultivating their fields.
[7] Tensions between church and state rose to such a level that in 1622 the Franciscans considered abandoning New Mexico altogether, and only decided to remain due to Perea's frantic pleas.
[8] According to the Franciscan missionaries, Juan de Eulate told the Pueblo Indians of the province that they did not have to renounce their traditional religious practices.
"[9] When Zambrano was assigned to the mission at Galisteo Pueblo around 1621, he was told by a native catechist whom he reproached for keeping a concubine that the Tanos were expecting to soon receive permission to "live as before they were Christians."
Zambrano blamed Eulate for the conditions at Galisteo, saying he was "more suited to a junk shop than to the office of governor he holds ... a bag of arrogance and vanity without love for God or zeal for divine honor or for the king our lord, a man of evil example in word and deed who does not deserve to be governor but rather a hawker and [a creature] of these vile pursuits.
"[10] On 11 April 1626 Zambrano said that Governor Eulate had ordered a deputy of the Confraternity of the Mother of God de la Concepcíon to be falsely accused and hanged because of his membership, and because he was a pious man.
He found and captured eleven English settlers and twenty Indians, part of a larger expedition led by Sir Henry Colt that had been diverted to Saint Kitts.
He was called to the court of the Kingdom of Navarre in 1640, made a member of the Order of Santiago, given the title of Maestre de Campo and appointed castellan of Pamplona.
[1] The historian France V. Scholes described Eulate as "a petulant, tactless, irreverent soldier whose actions were inspired by open contempt for the Church and its ministers and by an exeggerated conception of his own authority as the representative of the Crown."
