Victoria (1815), Juan Bautista Francisco (1816-1819), Mauricio Carlos Francisco Antonio (1819), Antoinette Victoria Luisa (1823-1853), Francisco Xavier Luis (1824-1889), Sebastian (1827-1878), Teresa (1829), Eugenio Juan Bautista Evaristo (1830), Teresa Helena (1833-1895).[2]
Parent(s)
Timoteo Antonio Pizarro and Antonia San Martin
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pizarro and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.
Francisco Pizarro was born in Mexico City on 24 January 1787 to Timoteo Antonio Pizarro López and Antonia San Martín Pérez, a Spanish couple from Alcántara, Extremadura, and Cádiz, respectively.[4] At 27, he married Marie Thérèse Visoso, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and daughter of a Galician immigrant, on 27 April 1814.[2]
In 1833, as Mexican consul of New Orleans, Pizarro refused entry to blacks and other "people of color" to the then-Mexican state of Coahuila y Texas, claiming that they were slaves in disguise and inherently lazy and immoral.[5] After the Texas Revolution, he negotiated a prisoner exchange with Stephen F. Austin in the winter of 1836.[6]
In May 1837, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States by President Anastasio Bustamante.[7] As envoy, he negotiated the Convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States of America upon the Government of the Mexican Republic with John Forsyth in 1838.[8]
Shortly thereafter, Pizarro died while on duty on 9 February 1840, at the age of 53, in Washington, D.C. The President of the United States, his cabinet, and members of the diplomatic corps were present at his Catholic funeral.[9] He was originally interred behind the Chapel of St. Francis Xavier on College Ground (a burial ground of the Holy Trinity Church) in the historical neighborhood of Georgetown.[10] In 1953, when Georgetown University cleared the cemetery for the construction of new buildings,[10] his remains were transferred to Mount Olivet Cemetery.[3]
^González Navarro, Moisés (1997). "Racism and Mestizaje". In Rodríguez, Jaime E.; Vincent, Kathryn (eds.). Common Border, Uncommon Paths: Race, Culture, and National Identity in U.S.-Mexican Relations. University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States. p. 46. ISBN978-0-8420-2673-4. OCLC228659739. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
^Austin, Stephen F. (30 November 1836). "Letter to Francisco Pizarro Martinez". The Portal to Texas History. The University of North Texas Libraries. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
