When Ignacio Goicoechea Arza was born on 30 July 1649, in Atáun, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain, his father, Juan Goicoechea, was 29 and his mother, Estibania Arza, was 24. He married Elena Ygoa Bacaicoa on 16 September 1675, in Atáun, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 14 October 1705, in Etxarri Aranatz, Nafarroa, Spain, at the age of 56.
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The Catalan counties of Roussillon and the northern half of Cerdanya were ceded to France.
Bourbon dynasty takes Spanish throne. The Bourbons came from France, settling and modernize Spain's government and military.
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Basque: Castilianized form of Goikoetxea, a topographic name from goiko ‘upper’ + etxe ‘house’. Compare Goicochea and Huicochea .
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