The Quijada from Los Arcos (Navarre) and their family seat

Abstract

This lineage of the Quijada family, or Quixada
as they usually signed their name, settled in Los
Arcos in the second half of the sixteenth century,
having earlier lived the city of Alfaro in La Rioja, and
before that in Tierra de Campos.
To study this family tree is to follow the path of the
history of the town of Los Arcos throughout the three
centuries that it was annexed to Castille. The male
subjects always held positions of power in the council,
within the noble groups they had always belonged
to. Since the first fruits of the parish were under
the patronage of the council, these men kept good
count of all the works of art in the church, some of
which they had donated themselves. When he had
no direct male descendents, Luis Francisco Quixada
y Arrese looked for an eligible nobleman for his
daughter in Estella among the family of Navarro
Ladrón de Zegama y Amburz, and later in Elciego
among the Saenz de Navarrete, with whom he gained
continuing social prestige into the twentieth
century.