Vergara family

The Vergara family in Chile was founded by royal lieutenant, Juan Martínez de Vergara, born in Guipuzcoa, Basque. He arrived in Chile in 1601.
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He was born in 1589 in the province of Guipúzcoa, Basque Country and died in Chimbarongo, Colchagua in 1662.
Arrival in Chile.
The Hidalgo arrived in South America destined for Chile and the War of Arauco in 1601. He was enlisted in the troops who accompanied Governor Alonso de Ribera, who was considered the organizer of the army in the kingdom of Chile. He was in the company commanded by Captain Gines de Lillo and helped with his arms in the forts of Santa Fe and Talcahuano. In 1628 he was already in the rank of captain. He was the backbone one of the most important Chilean colonial families.
Son of Juan Martínez de Vergara, a native of Guipuzcoa and Isabel Alonso Marquez, a neighbor, of Gibraleón. She was the daughter of Teresa Alonso Marquez, and of the same region.
In 1634 he married Magdalena de Leiva Sepulveda, daughter of a Sevillian captain, Antonio de Leiva Sepulveda and Mariana de la Cerda Niza y Corral.
His children.
i) Juan Martínez de Vergara y Leiva Sepulveda born in Chillán in 1645 and married on 22 October 1670 in Santiago with Ana Gomez Ceballo y Ugarte Escobar. He died at his ranch in Talcamo (Talca) on 18 January 1723.
ii) Isabel Martínez de Vergara y Sepulveda Leiva married an Asturian Maestre de Campo, Pedro Fernández de Albuerne Ondina. He wrote his will on his ranch in San Francisco Talcamo (Talca) Paguelo on 11 December 
1676 and died in 1677.
iii) Mariana Leiva Martínez de Vergara y Sepulveda married on 8 July 1662 in Nancagua with the Spanish gentleman, Lieutenant José Antonio de Labra y Vega, a native of Cangas de Onis and Maestre de Campo in 1660. She died 8 March 1702.
iv) Francisca Martínez de Vergara y Sepulveda married Rodrigo Leiva Verdugo de Sarria y de la Corte.
v) Jacinta Martinez Vergara y Sepulveda married Domingo Valdés y Fernandez de Villalobos.