[67] The deceased head of the family bore the name of Diego Suarez Pacheco, the mother that of María de Marcaida, also wrongly written Mercaida. The son, Juan Suarez, the partner of Cortés in the Cuban encomienda, afterward settled in Mexico. _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 12-13. See also Proceso de Marcayda, in _Cortés_, _Residencia_, ii. 333. Peralta, the son of Juan, gives the family a genealogy of high order. _Not. Hist._, 57. ‘Suarez ... gente pobre.’ _Las Casas_, _Hist. Ind._, iv. 13. ‘Doña Catalina Suarez Pacheco (the daughter), doncella noble y recatada.’ Solis, _Hist. Mex._, i. 46, and Pizarro y Orellana, _Varones Ilvstres_, 70, also write Suarez, Herrera and Gomara, Xuarez. The latter says three or four daughters, _Hist. Mex._, 7, but it seems that there were four children in all. Those who write the more common form of Suarez are more explicit, and deserve at least equal credit with Gomara. [68] Velazquez was married not long after his arrival in Cuba to the daughter of Contador Cuéllar. The bride died within the same week. _Herrera_, dec. i. lib. ix. cap. ix. ‘Velazquez fauoreciala por amor de otra su hermana, q̄ tenia ruin fama, y aun el era demasiado mugeril.’ _Gomara_, _Hist. Mex._, 7. Delaporte, _Reisen_, x. 141-2, assumes that Cortés won the love of her whom Velazquez wished to possess; while Gordon, _Anc. Mex._, ii. 32, supposes that the bride had been the object of Velazquez’ gallantry; hence the trouble. Folsom, on the other hand, marries one of the Suarez sisters to Velazquez, and calls him the brother-in-law of Cortés. _Cortés_, _Despatches_, 9, 11-12. [69] Gomara, _Hist. Mex._, 7, insists that Velazquez had no motive for anger except the refusal of Cortés to marry. The meeting of conspirators at his house gave plausibility to the charges of his enemies. By others it is even stated that at these meetings Cortés defended the governor against the charges of the conspirators and overruled their plots. _De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandi Cortesii_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, i. 325-6. The preponderance of evidence, however, is against this supposition. [70] ‘Estando para se embarcar en una canoa de indios con sus papeles, fué Diego Velazquez avisado y hízolo prender y quísolo ahorcar.’ _Las Casas_, _Hist. Ind._, iv. 11. He was cast in the fort prison, lest the army should proclaim him general. ‘Timebat ne si quis,’ etc. _De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandi Cortesii_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, i. 325 and 326-7.